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| Latest news and information about the NHL.After watching his team rally for the third straight game with a six-goal third period, all San Jose coach Todd McLellan wanted to talk about was the listless play the first two periods that put the Sharks in the hole. "We were clearly outworked, outplayed, outhustled for two periods and that's very disappointing," McLellan said. |
| Yahoo! Canada Sports - NHL NewsSharks score 6 in 3rd, top Predators 8-5 (AP) |
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| The Atlanta Thrashers needed a break. Instead, they got more bad news. Kristian Huselius had a goal and an assist and the Columbus Blue Jackets weathered a late rally to hang on for a 2-1 victory Thursday night, with the Thrashers' loss clinching the Southeast Division title for the Washington Capitals. |
| Thrashers fall, Caps clinch Southeast (AP) |
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| With Marc Savard most likely out for rest of the season because of a concussion, Patrice Bergeron led the way for the banged-up Boston Bruins. The new first-line center scored a goal and had two assists in Boston's 5-1 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday night. Tuukka Rask made 31 saves, and Mark Recchi and David Krejci scored second-period goals along with Bergeron, helping the... |
| Rask, banged-up Bruins defeat Flyers 5-1 (AP) |
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| For the second straight night, the Carolina Hurricanes pushed one of the NHL's best teams to overtime. This time they got the win. Brian Pothier scored 23 seconds into overtime to give the Hurricanes a 4-3 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Thursday night. Carolina lost by the same count the night before in Washington. |
| Pothier lifts 'Canes past Penguins in OT (AP) |
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| Miikka Kiprusoff had a lot of help. Kiprusoff made 33 saves for fourth shutout of the season and 34th overall, and his teammates combined to block 30 more shots in the Calgary Flames' 2-0 victory over the Ottawa Senators on Thursday night. "Guys are paying the price and that's what you have to do if you want to win games like this," Kiprusoff said. |
| Flames' Kiprusoff beats Senators 2-0 (AP) |
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| The Detroit Red Wings started and finished strong. Johan Franzen scored twice, and Henrik Zetterberg had a goal and two assists in Detroit's 5-1 victory over the Minnesota Wild on Thursday night. Tomas Holmstrom added a goal and an assist, and Drew Miller also scored, and Jimmy Howard made 21 saves for Detroit, ninth in the Western Conference -- a point behind Nashville and Calgary. |
| Franzen, Zetterberg power Wings by Wild (AP) |
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| Jaroslav Halak and the Montreal Canadiens took advantage of a timely game against the NHL's worst team. Andrei Kostitsyn scored on Montreal's fifth shootout attempt, and Halak turned aside five shots in the tiebreaker to help the Canadiens extend their winning streak to four games with a 5-4 victory over Edmonton on Thursday night. |
| Habs' win streak at 4, beat Oilers in SO (AP) |
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| Paul Stastny had a forgettable game in Colorado's loss to Vancouver on Tuesday night. He made up for it Thursday night. Stastny scored twice, and Craig Anderson made 27 saves to move into a tie for the NHL shutout lead with seven in the Avalanche's 3-0 victory over the Florida Panthers. Anderson matched New Jersey's Martin Brodeur, Phoenix's Ilya Bryzgalov and Florida's Tomas... |
| Stastny, Anderson help Avs blank Florida (AP) |
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| This was one point the St. Louis Blues couldn't let slip away. Fighting to get back into the Western Conference playoff race, the surging Blues found themselves in a shootout with the slumping New York Islanders. Then T.J. Oshie, Brad Boyes and goalie Chris Mason took care of business. Oshie and Boyes scored on the Blues' only attempts in the tiebreaker, and Mason made two saves to lift St. |
| Surging Blues get by Islanders in SO (AP) |
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| The youth movement has injected some life into the Toronto Maple Leafs. The pieces fit together brilliantly Thursday night in a 4-3 overtime victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning, with rookies Viktor Stalberg, Tyler Bozak and Luca Caputi doing the heavy lifting in regulation and Phil Kessel, himself just 22, sealing the deal at 3:33 of the extra session. |
| Kessel scores in OT, Leafs top Lightning (AP) |
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