Carolina captain Rod Brind’Amour scored with 1:40 left in overtime to give the Hurricanes a 3-2 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Thursday night. Scott Walker had a goal and an assist and Tim Gleason also scored for Carolina. Toronto captain Mats Sundin scored with 11.4 seconds left in regulation to send the game into overtime. Read Original Post Here
The East Coast never looked so good to the Los Angeles Kings. Buried at the bottom of the NHL standings, the team Wayne Gretzky put on the map two decades ago is trying to find its way. An overtime loss and a win at the start of an eight-game road trip has suddenly made the time away from home seem not so bad.
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Nothing solves a prolonged road slump for the Rangers quite like making the trip to Philadelphia. Steve Valiquette made 20 saves in his first career shutout to help the Rangers beat the Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday night, New York’s first road win in more than a month. Nigel Dawes, Petr Prucha, Chris Drury and Brendan Shanahan scored for the Rangers, their 10th win in the last 11 games in…
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Phil Kessel, Milan Lucic and Marc Savard scored early in the first period to send the Boston Bruins to a 4-1 win over the Ottawa Senators on Thursday night. Kessel and Lucic scored 2:50 apart as Boston jumped out to a two-goal lead 3:18 in. Savard, who extended his assists and points streaks to nine games each on Kessel’s goal 28 seconds in, made it 3-0 with an unassisted goal at 8:21.
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Alex Ovechkin scored his fourth goal of the night with 1:26 left in overtime to give the Washington Capitals a 5-4 win over the Montreal Canadiens on Thursday night. Ovechkin finished with four goals and one assist for five points, but the last one was the biggest. He took a crossing pass from Jeff Schultz and beat Montreal goalie Cristobal Huet from in front for the overtime goal.
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Brad Richards had a goal and two assists, leading the Tampa Bay Lightning past the Vancouver Canucks 4-3 on Thursday night. Richards gave the Lightning a 4-2 lead on his goal from the right circle at 8:34 of the third as Tampa Bay won for just the sixth time in the past 17 games. Alexander Edler’s power-play goal got the Canucks within 4-3 with 24.1 seconds left.
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Former hockey star Guy Lafleur turned himself over to Montreal police Thursday, a day after a warrant was drawn up for his arrest for giving contradictory evidence as a witness at his son’s bail hearing. Lafleur’s lawyer, Jean-Pierre Rancourt, told French-language television network TVA that Lafleur handed himself over to authorities. Read Original Post Here
Atlanta Thrashers star Ilya Kovalchuk will miss at least two games but apparently avoided serious injury to his right knee when he was hurt in Wednesday night’s game against Pittsburgh. Thrashers general manager and interim coach Don Waddell said Kovalchuk would have a “precautionary” MRI exam on the knee Thursday afternoon. Read Original Post Here
Peter Forsberg has decided not to play for his hometown team Modo this season, instead setting his sights on a return to the NHL. Forsberg made the announcement to Modo hours before the deadline for transfers in the Swedish hockey league. “My goal is to go back to the NHL,” Forsberg told Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet. Read Original Post Here
The Nashville Predators signed forward Jordin Tootoo, the first Inuit to play in the NHL, to a two-year contract extension. General Manager David Poile announced the deal worth $1.95 million Thursday, after the team’s morning skate. Drafted in 2001, Tootoo has career-highs with seven goals and 13 points in 41 games this season. Read Original Post Here
