Rookie Cam Fowler, Teemu
Selanne and Jason Blake also scored as Anaheim rebounded from back-to-back
losses to stay in a seventh-place tie with Chicago in the Western Conference
standings. Both clubs have 95 points apiece and two games to go.
The Ducks' victory eliminated
the Calgary Flames, but the 10th-place Dallas Stars still have a chance with 91
points and a game in hand.
Perry became just the third
50-goal scorer in Ducks history and the Western Conference's first 50-goal
scorer since Calgary's Jarome Iginla in 2007-08.
Dan Boyle and Ben Eager
scored for the Sharks.
At
Chicago, Jonathan Toews scored with a low shot from the left circle at 3:19 of
overtime to give Chicago a victory over St. Louis and move within two points of
a clinching a playoff spot in the Western Conference.
Toews beat Ty Conklin on the
short side after taking a long lead pass from Duncan Keith and racing in with
Blues defenseman Carlo Colaiacovo in close pursuit.
Marian Hossa, Tomas Kopecky and
Nick Leddy scored in the second period to help the defending Stanley Cup
champion Blackhawks erase a two-goal deficit.
St. Louis' Chris Stewart
scored midway through the third to set up overtime. T.J. Oshie had a goal and
an assist, and David Backes also scored for the Blues, who are out of the
playoffs for the second straight season.
At
Los Angeles, Kyle Clifford had the tying goal late in the second period, Jarret
Stoll also scored and Los Angeles clinched its second straight playoff berth.
Stoll also had the deciding
goal in the tiebreaker, his ninth in 10 shots this season and eighth in a row.
Jonathan Quick made 33 saves.
Lee Stempniak and Taylor
Pyatt scored first period goals for Phoenix and Ilya Bryzgalov made 31 saves.
The Coyotes need one more
point to secure their second straight postseason berth.
At
Calgary, Alberta, Jarome Iginla scored three goals and added an assist as
Edmonton routed Calgary, a few minutes before the Flames were eliminated from the
Western Conference playoff race.
With one game left, Calgary
is two points behind Chicago and Anaheim.
Iginla has 42 goals. Alex
Tanguay had a goal and two assists, Rene Bourque and Curtis Glencross also
scored, Mikael Backlund Backlund had three assists, and Miikka Kiprusoff made
22 saves.
Magnus Paajarvi scored for
Edmonton.
At
Raleigh, North Carolina, Cam Ward made 42 saves for his second shutout in a
month as Carolina beat Detroit to remain alive for a playoff spot.
Jeff Skinner and Derek Joslin
scored in the second period and Erik Cole added a goal in the third. The
Hurricanes have won seven of nine to move to 89 points and remain in the hunt
for just their second postseason berth since they won the 2006 Stanley Cup.
Eric Staal added three
assists to help Carolina beat Detroit for the first time since 2006.
Jimmy Howard made 29 saves
for the Central Division champion Red Wings, who lost star left winger Henrik
Zetterberg to a lower-body injury. Zetterberg, who collided with Carolina
defenseman Bryan Allen midway through the first period, has a team-best 80
points.
At
Washington, Mike Knuble and Jason Chimera scored power-play goals in the first
period as Washington won its fourth straight game to move to the brink of
clinching the top seed in the Eastern Conference.
Sean Collins, called up over
the weekend because of injuries to several Washington defensemen, padded the
lead in the second period with his second career NHL goal. Matt Hendricks made
it 4-0 in the third period, and Alex Ovechkin scored his 301st NHL goal into an
empty net.
Ovechkin added two assists in
addition to his empty-netter, giving him eight points in the last four games.
Laich also had two assists, and Semyon Varlamov made 31 saves.
David Booth and Mike
Santorelli scored for Florida. The Panthers have lost nine straight.
At
Boston, Dennis Seidenberg and Gregory Campbell scored in a 78-second span in
the second period as Boston moved within two points of the second playoff spot
in the Eastern Conference.
The Bruins, who have clinched
the Northeast Division title, have 101 points. The Philadelphia Flyers, the
Atlantic Division leaders who were idle Wednesday, have 103. Both teams have
two regular-season games left.
Shawn Thornton also scored
for Boston.
Michael Grabner scored his
32nd and 33rd goals for New York. He leads NHL rookies in goals.
At
Newark, New Jersey, Ilya Kovalchuk scored his 30th goal and added an assist to
lead New Jersey over Toronto.
Mattias Tedenby, Henrik
Tallinder and Patrik Elias also scored for the Devils in a game that matched
two teams that made desperate second-half playoff runs only to fall short.
Martin Brodeur had 22 saves
but had to sweat out the final minutes after Toronto got third-period goals
from Phil Kessel and Tyler Bozak to make it close.
Kovalchuk extended his string
of 30-goal NHL seasons to eight when he scored at 13:47 of the first with New
Jersey on a power play.
