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MLB – NL Roundup: Marlins lose to Halladay, Phillies 2-1

April 15, 2013 By

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(PhatzRadio / AP) — WASHINGTON — and Andrelton Simmons homered and the won their ninth in row as beat the 9-0 Sunday to complete a three-.

Upton hit his seventh home run of the season. Chris Johnson had four hits and two RBIs for the Braves, who took a 7-0 lead in the third inning against (1-1).

In sweeping their NL and compiling the best record in the major leagues, Atlanta (11-1) has outscored the opposition 62-23.

Washington has lost seven straight to Atlanta since last year.

Maholm (3-0) allowed four hits in 7 2-3 innings. He has not permitted a run this season in 20 1-3 innings over three starts.

PHILLIES 2, MARLINS 1

MIAMI — earned his 200th career victory, bouncing back from consecutive poor outings to pitch eight innings and help the beat the Miami Marlins 2-1.

broke a 1-all tie with his second pinch-hit homer of the season in the ninth.

Halladay (1-2) allowed five hits, walked one and lowered his ERA from 14.73 to 7.63. He’s the 109th pitcher to reach the 200-win milestone, and the first to do so in a Phillies uniform since Hall of Famer Steve Carlton in 1978.

Nix batted for Halladay with one out in the ninth and homered into the upper deck in right field off Jon Rauch (0-2).

pitched around a leadoff walk in the ninth for his second save.

DIAMONDBACKS 1, DODGERS 0

PHOENIX — Paul Goldschmidt hit a game-winning single off with one out in the ninth inning, lifting the Arizona Diamondbacks over the .

Diamondbacks starter pitched six-hit ball for 7 1-3 innings. J.J. Putz (1-0) walked one in the ninth.

Beckett (0-2) gave up a one-out double to A.J. Pollock in the ninth. Beckett ran the count to 3-0 before intentionally walking Miguel Montero, and Goldschmidt singled to right field.

ROCKIES 2, PADRES 1

SAN DIEGO — had a pinch-hit, two-run homer in the seventh inning and Jorge De La Rosa and three relievers combined on a two-hitter to carry the Colorado Rockies over San Diego.

Colorado also swept San Diego at Coors Field last weekend.

Helton’s homer off Dale Thayer (0-1) broke a scoreless tie. It was Helton’s first homer this season and his third career pinch homer.

De La Rosa (1-1) held the Padres scoreless on two hits in six innings. Rafael Betancourt gave up a run in the ninth before getting his fifth save.

BREWERS 4, CARDINALS 3, 10 INNINGS

ST. LOUIS — Jonathan Lucroy hit a solo home run in the 10th inning as the Milwaukee Brewers rallied past the St. Louis Cardinals and avoided a sweep.

The Brewers had gone a team-record 32 innings without scoring before Ryan Braun hit a two-run homer off reliever Trevor Rosenthal in the eighth. Braun’s second home run of the season snapped a 39-inning for St. Louis pitchers.

Milwaukee tied it in the ninth on a leadoff single by Carlos Gomez and a double by Yuniesky Betancourt off Mitchell Boggs. Lucroy’s first homer this year came off Fernando Salas (0-2).

Brandon Kintzler (1-0) pitched a scoreless ninth. Burke Badenhop got his first save.

Matt Adams homered for the third straight game for St. Louis.

GIANTS 10, CUBS 7, 10 INNINGS

CHICAGO — Edwin Jackson and Michael Bowden tied a major league record by combining to throw five wild pitches in an inning, and the San Francisco Giants beat the Chicago Cubs in the 10th.

The Cubs matched the record for wild pitches by a team in an inning during a four-run sixth.

Hunter Pence hit a tying homer with two outs in the Giants’ ninth off Shawn Camp (0-1). A balk by Camp scored the go-ahead run in the 10th.

George Kontos (1-1) pitched a scoreless inning and Sergio Romo worked the 10th for his seventh save in eight chances.

PIRATES 10, REDS 7

PITTSBURGH — Backup catcher Michael McKenry had the first two-homer game of his four-year major league career, Starling Marte hit a tiebreaking two-run drive in a six-run eighth inning and the Pittsburgh Pirates sent Cincinnati to its fifth straight loss.

The Pirates swept the Reds for the first time since April 2010 in Pittsburgh.

Pittsburgh trailed 5-0 when McKenry homered off Mat Latos leading off the seventh. McKenry hit a tying homer in the eighth.

Jared Hughes (1-0) got the win and Jonathan Broxton (0-1) took the loss.

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NHL Roundup: Blackhawks end Elliott streak, beat Blues

April 15, 2013 By

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(PhatzRadio / AP) — ST. LOUIS — Corey Crawford stopped 30 shots and the got goals from and Marian Hossa for a 2-0 win over St. Louis on Sunday, ending Blues goalie ’s at three games.

The Blackhawks lead the NHL with 68 points, and have won five in a row. They’re 3-1 against the Blues, all with Crawford in net.

The Blues rarely tested Crawford until the third period and lost their second straight in front of a standing room crowd of 19,385 that had a healthy contingent of Blackhawks fans. St. Louis has seven games remaining, all but one at home.

Bickell tapped in his own rebound on a rush early in the second period to end Elliott’s streak at 214 minutes. Hossa’s short-handed goal off a faceoff win by was the crusher early in the third, coming 17 seconds after was whistled for cross-checking David Backes in front of the Chicago net.

SABRES 3, LIGHTNING 1

BUFFALO, N.Y. — stopped 32 shots and helped Buffalo keep up its late-season playoff push.

Tyler Ennis got his first goal in 12 games, and and also scored for Buffalo (18-19-6), which took over of 10th place in the Eastern Conference — four points behind the eighth-place New York Rangers.

Benoit Pouliot score for the Lightning, who dropped to 1-4-1 in their past six. Tampa Bay has particularly struggled on the road, where it’s winless in four straight (0-3-1) and 1-6-1 in the last eight.

Enroth stopped the first 16 shots he faced before allowing his first goal in two games with 6:30 left in the second period.

3, PREDATORS 0

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — scored in the second period, and Detroit gained two crucial points in its chase to extend its streak of .

The Red Wings got their first win in , the last two shootout losses, and moved into of eighth in the Western Conference two points ahead of Dallas and Columbus. also scored a goal, and Justin Abdelkader added an empty-netter late. Jimmy Howard made 22 saves for his third shutout this season.

Pekka Rinne made 29 saves for Nashville, which lost its sixth straight.

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NHL Roundup: Coyotes take win, Pacific lead / Tortorella fined $20,000 for Penguins dig

April 7, 2012 By

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#22 of the St. Louis Blues clears the puck against #19 of the at the Scottrade Center on April 6, 2012 in St. Louis, Missouri.
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ST. LOUIS (AP) – Mike Smith stopped 161 shots in a row before finally letting one get past him. The rest of the took it from there.

“He’s been so big for us,” captain Shane Doan said after the Coyotes took the Pacific Division lead with one game to go with a 4-1 victory over the suddenly beatable St. Louis Blues on Friday night. “We wanted to give him a little break.

“It was nice to give him more than one goal to work with.”

Patrik Berglund’s rebound goal in the first period ended Smith’s at 234:25 and tied it at 1, but Smith was perfect the rest of the way. The Coyotes won their fourth in a row and extended the Blues’ season-worst to four games in St. Louis’ .

“We didn’t play the way we wanted to and we kind of got away from our game,” defenseman Alex said. “That’s kind of been our trend the last little bit and we’ve got to find a way to get it back on track.”

, and Mikkel Boedker also scored for Phoenix, and Antoine Vermette had two assists. The Coyotes, who’ve won the last four by a combined 14-1, can win the first division title in with a victory in the regular- Saturday night at Minnesota.

Smith made 31 saves for the Coyotes, who have a one-point lead over Los Angeles and San Jose. The Kings and Sharks will play Saturday night in San Jose, with one team guaranteed to earn two points.

The Coyotes will get the third seed in the Western Conference if they win their finale, but will be the seventh or if they lose.

“It’s a division title but more importantly, it’s in the playoffs,” coach said. “We’ve been talking about this for a long time, that we want to build to be a playoff team.”

Brian Elliott, whose scoreless streak ended at 241:33 in a shootout loss to Detroit on Wednesday, had 28 saves for St. Louis. The Blues were the first team to clinch a and could still win the Western Conference with a win Saturday at Dallas along with a Vancouver loss at home against Edmonton, but are 3-4-4 in their last 11.

“There’s no more talking now,” captain said. “We’re at Game 82 tomorrow, let’s go out there and do what we know we have to do. Either we commit to this team game the way we have to be successful or we’re going to be talking like this in more scrums.”

The Blues finished a franchise-best 30-6-5 at home, but with a pair of blowout losses in the last three, also falling 5-2 to lowly Columbus last Saturday. A sellout crowd showed its frustration in the third period, with a beer bottle and a hat tossed onto the ice after Jamie Langenbrunner and Michal Rozsival tangled.

For the third straight game, coach Ken Hitchcock’s postgame remarks were brief and to the point.

“This is what happens when you play with skill ahead of work,” Hitchcock said. “Their level of defensive and checking commitment confused and frustrated our players.

“We wanted the game to be easier and it wasn’t.”

Phoenix avoided a season sweep by St. Louis after getting outscored 11-3 in three losses, including a 4-0 setback at home March 25. The Coyotes killed seven Blues’ power plays.

Smith took a blow to the head from teammate Rotislav Klesla’s leg in the second period but continued without a beat after getting medical attention in the net for a few minutes. After the game he said he felt fine.

“I think we played more to our identity tonight,” Smith said. “I think we were happy obviously with the outcome but moreso the way we played and how we won.

“It was nice to get back playing a gritty game, one we’re going to have to play down the stretch.”

Yandle scored his first goal in 11 games on the Coyotes’ second shot, hitting the top corner with a drive from beyond the left faceoff circle at 2:13. Berglund’s 19th goal tied it late in the period and the Blues outshot the Coyotes 11-0 the last 11 minutes of the first period, appearing to build some momentum.

Phoenix regained control early in the second, beating Elliott on consecutive shots by Vrbata from the slot and Doan on a rush for a 3-1 lead about 7 1/2 minutes in. Vrbata has 34 goals, the most for the Coyotes since Jeremy Roenick had 34 in 1999-2000.

The Blues missed a chance to climb back into it, coming up empty with 1:48 of a two-man advantage late in the period.

Notes: Doan has 20 goals and 46 points in 64 career games against the Blues. … Elliott and Smith fell well short of the NHL record of 332:01 set by Brian Boucher of Phoenix in 2003-04. … The Coyotes are 32-1 when leading after two periods. … Smith won for the first time in four career starts in St. Louis.

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New York Rangers head coach John Tortorella’s wallet was $20,000 lighter after he was fined for comments after Thursday night’s tilt against the Pittsburgh Penguins. (John Woods/Canadian Press)

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New York Rangers head coach John Tortorella was handed a $20,000 US fine on Friday for comments following his team’s 5-2 loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins the previous night, and the Vancouver Canucks got some big help from the Phoenix Coyotes in the Western Conference playoff picture. Each was part of the five stories from the NHL Friday night.

Rangers coach John Tortorella sparked some controversy when he directed some pointed words at the Pittsburgh Penguins organization Thursday — including snipers Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin — and was fined $20,000 US. Fans voted on whether they liked it or not and the levy sparked a Twitter debate.

The Vancouver Canucks got some much-needed help from the Phoenix Coyotes, who moved into the Pacific Division lead with a win over the St. Louis Blues. Will the Canucks clinch the West, or the Presidents’ Trophy, on Saturday?

Goaltender Mike Smith continued his exceptional play of late but gave up his first goal in 234:25 against the St. Louis Blues, making a phenomenal 161 straight saves before surrendering the marker.

Minnesota Wild defenceman Nate Prosser was handed a one-game suspension for head-butting forward Jamal Mayers during a game on Thursday night.

Fans argued on Twitter about what the NHL should do about San Jose Sharks forward Ryane Clowe’s antics from Thursday night against the . Is it suspendable?

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NHL Roundup: Red Wings rallies to win against Blues 3-2

April 5, 2012 By

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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Johan Franzen scored on consecutive shots in the third period to end ’s after more than 3 1-2 games, and netted the lone goal in a shootout as the Detroit Red Wings rallied to beat the St. Louis Blues 3-2 on Wednesday night.

set up both regulation goals for the Red Wings, who moved a point ahead of Nashville for fourth in the Western Conference with 101 points. Both teams have remaining.

Detroit, over 100 points for the 12th consecutive season, is 9-2 in shootouts. The Red Wings handed the Blues their second straight home loss, dropping them to 30-5-5 and leaving them two points behind NHL-leading Vancouver and the .

David Perron and scored for St. Louis, which has 107 points for second place in the West behind Vancouver.

The Red Wings’ Jimmy Howard stopped T.J. , McDonald and David Perron in the shootout.

Elliott, who had a franchise-record of 241 minutes, 33 seconds snapped, finished with 26 saves through overtime.

CANADIENS 5, LIGHTNING 2

MONTREAL (AP) — Canadiens linemates Erik Cole and Max Pacioretty both scored two goals, and Montreal snapped a four- losing streak by beating Tampa Bay.

Lightning star Steven Stamkos didn’t score, despite several good chances, and remained two goals short of 60. He will play in his hometown of Toronto on Thursday night and has left to reach the mark.

Cole scored twice in the second period, Pacioretty had a pair of goals in the third, and also scored for Montreal (30-35-15), the last-place team in the Eastern Conference.

Vincent Lecavalier scored off a gift from Montreal backup goalie , and defenseman Bruno Gervais added a goal for Tampa Bay (37-36-7), which is also eliminated from playoff contention.

Montreal outshot the Lightning 25-16 in a played in front of many empty seats.

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NHL Roundup: Penguins slam Devils 5-2

March 26, 2012 By

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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Sidney Crosby scored in his second straight game and added an assist to help the beat the New Jersey Devils 5-2 on Sunday night.

Crosby, who snapped out of a career-long 12-game Saturday, gave the Penguins some breathing room with a wrist shot by goalie Martin Brodeur early in the third period. It was Crosby’s first goal at home since scoring twice in his season debut against the on Nov. 21.

Evgeni Malkin also had a goal and an assist for the Penguins to push his points total to 97, tops in the NHL. Pittsburgh has won 10 straight at Consol Energy Center and moved back within a point of the for the top stop in the Eastern Conference.

Chris Kunitz, Jordan Staal and added goals. Dupuis extended his points streak to a career-best 10 games, the longest active streak in the league.

and Ilya Kovalchuk scored for New Jersey and Brodeur made 23 saves, but couldn’t stop the slumping Devils from falling to 1-3-1 in their last five games.

BLUES 4, COYOTES 0

GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — made 20 saves for his eighth shutout and St. Louis’ franchise-record 14th of the season in the NHL-leading Blues’ over Phoenix.

Elliott extended his to 127:38, and tied the Rangers’ and the Kings’ Jonathan Quick for the NHL lead in shutouts. Elliott and Jaroslav Halak have combined for 14 shutouts to break the team mark of 13 set by Glenn Hall and Jacques Plante in 1968-69. Elliott and Halak are the first goalie pair in NHL history to each have at least six shutouts in one season.

Alex Pietrangelo and scored each scored power-play goals, and and connected at even strength to help the Blues increase their points total to 103, two more than the Rangers.

The Coyotes remained seventh in the Western Conference with 87 points, one point ahead of Los Angeles, San Jose and Colorado.

BRUINS 3, DUCKS 2

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Marty Turco won for the first time in the NHL in more than 13 months with the help of a disallowed goal that would have tied it, and Boston got second-period goals from and Benoit Pouliot less than 1 1/2 minutes apart to beat Anaheim.

Anaheim’s Matt Beleskey beat Turco to the stick side with a wrist shot just inside the left post at 7:22 of the third period, but teammate Andrew Cogliano had both feet in the crease and was pressed up against Turco when the puck went in. NHL officials in Toronto examined replays and ruled no goal.

Brian Rolston then gave Boston a 3-1 lead with 6:54 to play.

Anaheim’s Lobomir Visnovsky completed the scoring with 2:29 left.

Turco, playing his third game with the Bruins, went the distance for the first time and made 25 saves for his first win since Feb. 1, 2011, when he stopped 29 shots in Chicago’s 7-4 victory at Columbus.

Teemu Selanne scored a power-play goal for Anaheim.

CAPITALS 3, WILD 0

WASHINGTON (AP) — Alex Ovechkin scored his ninth goal in seven games, and Washington pulled back into the final Eastern Conference with victory over Minnesota.

Jason Chimera and Mathieu Perrault also scored, and Braden Holtby made 28 saves in his fourth start of the season as the Capitals broke a two- to move back into a tie on points with the Buffalo Sabres, with Washington holding the tiebreaker. The Capitals and Sabres, both with just six games remaining in the regular season, meet in Washington on Tuesday night.

Matt Hackett made 20 saves for the Wild.

PREDATORS 6, BLACKHAWKS 1

CHICAGO (AP) — Pekka Rinne made 24 saves and Nashville ended Chicago at five games.

Matt Halischuk, Andrei Kostitsyn, Patric Hornqvist, Francis Bouillon, Shea Weber and Mike Fisher scored for the Predators, who matched their season high with the six goals. Viktor Stalberg had Chicago’s lone score.

The victory sends the Predators into fourth place in the Western Conference with 96 points, one ahead of Detroit and four more than the sixth-place Blackhawks. Nashville is now 4-0-1 against Chicago this season.

Nashville’s leading scorer Martin Erat, who has tied a career high with 57 points, was scratched with an upper-body injury, although he logged 19 minutes Saturday night in a win over Winnipeg.

And Chicago played its first game without suspended defenseman Duncan Keith. Keith got five games for elbowing Vancouver’s Daniel Sedin in the head in the Blackhawks’ previous game Wednesday night.

ISLANDERS 3, PANTHERS 2, SO

SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Frans Nielsen scored the only goal to lift New York past Florida.

Kyle Okposo and Matt Moulson scored in regulation, and Evgeni Nabokov stopped 33 shots.

Tomas Fleischmann, and Stephen Weiss scored for Florida, and Jose Theodore made 35 saves.

Florida is three points ahead of Washington for the Southeast Division beat.

OILERS 6, BLUE JACKETS 3

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ryan Jones had a goal and two assists, Chris VandeVelde scored his first NHL goal and Edmonton beat Columbus in a matchup of the NHL’s worst teams.

Ladislav Smid, Ben Eager, Sam Gagner and Eric Belanger also scored, and Ryan Nugent Hopkins, Jordan Eberle and Ryan Whitney each had two assists for the Oilers.

Rick Nash scored on a penalty shot and Mark Letestu and Derick Brassard added for Columbus. The loss assured the Blue Jackets of having the worst record in the NHL this season.

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NHL Roundup: Bruins fall again; Lightning win 6-1

March 14, 2012 By

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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Steven Stamkos scored twice to reach 50 goals in a season for the second time, and the Tampa Bay Lightning jumped out to a big early lead and beat the Boston Bruins 6-1 on Tuesday night.

Tampa Bay, which had only , scored three times in the first five minutes and coasted from there to help Dustin Tokarski earn his first NHL victory.

, Nate Thompson and Ryan Shannon scored quickly to ruin Marty Turco’s first start as Boston’s backup goalie. The have lost three straight for the first time since late October and were limited to two shots in the opening period, 34 overall.

Stamkos scored his 49th goal in the second period and added his NHL-best 50th at 11:43 of the third to move into a tie for the league scoring lead with Evgeni Malkin with 84 points.

The Bruins signed Turco on March 5 as a backup for No. 1 goalie Tim Thomas after sustained a lower abdomen/groin strain that could sideline him four to six weeks.

Thomas replaced Turco after Shannon’s goal made it 3-0 just 4:31 in, but he didn’t fare much better. Turco came back in during the second period after Thomas stopped three of five shots.

FLYERS 3, DEVILS 0

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Ilya Bryzgalov stopped 17 shots for this third and fourth in five games to lead Philadelphia over New Jersey.

Sean Couturier, Jakub Voracek and scored to provide the offense.

After an underwhelming start to the season, Bryzgalov has dominated of late. He stretched his to more than 196 minutes and has stopped 152 of 154 shots. The Devils didn’t test him much, but it might not have mattered. He went 3-0 last week with a 0.65 goals-against average and a .979 save percentage in three starts.

The Flyers took a two-point lead over the Devils and moved into fifth place in the Eastern Conference.

CAPITALS 5, ISLANDERS 4, SO

UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Matt Hendricks scored in the fourth round of a shootout, and Washington completed a dramatic three-goal comeback in a victory over the New York Islanders on Tuesday night.

Washington trailed 4-1 late in the second before Alex Ovechkin scored in the final minute of the period. Dmitry Orlov scored 1:51 into the third to make it 4-3, and Ovechkin tied it at 10:15 with his 29th goal.

Mike Knuble scored his fourth goal of the season to bring the Capitals within 3-1.

John Tavares scored twice, including his career-best 31st goal, and added an assist, Matt Moulson netted his 30th of the season, and defenseman Travis Hamonic also scored for the Islanders (28-31-11), who lost their third straight game in heartbreaking fashion.

The Capitals (36-28-6) have won four in a row and lead ninth-place Buffalo by four points in the Eastern Conference playoff race.

RANGERS 4, HURRICANES 2

NEW YORK (AP) — Brad Richards scored twice and Martin Biron, a last-minute replacement for the ill Henrik Lundqvist, made 27 saves in the ’ win over Carolina.

New York’s top line had a stellar night. also scored and Carl Hagelin had a goal and assists on both of Richards’ goals as the trio combined for four goals and nine points.

The Rangers took advantage of a soft part in the schedule to extend their winning streak to two after having dropped three in a row. The wins over the New York Islanders and the Hurricanes, two teams unlikely to make the playoffs, followed a three-game losing streak.

The Rangers extended their lead in the Atlantic Division to six points over the Pittsburgh Penguins, who have won nine straight and are expected to have Sidney Crosby in the lineup when they face the Rangers in New York on Thursday.

Tim Brent and Drayson Bowman scored for the Hurricanes, 3-13-3 against the Atlantic Division.

STARS 1, WILD 0

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Jamie Benn’s goal early in the third period and Kari Lehtonen’s second consecutive shutout gave Dallas a win over Minnesota — the Stars’ sixth straight victory.

Benn scored for the third time in to give him 21 this season. He snagged a rink-wide pass from Brendan Morrow that glanced off Wild left wing Stephane Veilleux’s stick and straight to Benn for the tip-in with 16:14 remaining.

The Western Conference’s hottest team is 10-0-1 in its last 11 games, with seven victories in regulation. The Stars have taken over the Pacific Division race, and have a four-point lead with 12 games to play.

Lehtonen made 25 saves. He hasn’t lost a road start in regulation since Feb. 14 at Detroit.

PANTHERS 5, MAPLE LEAFS 2

SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Sean Bergenheim scored two goals in Florida’s win over Toronto.

Marcel Goc and Tomas Kopecky had power-play goals in the third period, Jason Garrison also scored, and Jose Theodore stopped 26 shots for the Panthers. Wojtek Wolski had two assists.

Bergenheim has a career-high 16 goals this season.

Mikhail Grabovski and Tyler Bozak scored for the Maple Leafs, who got 22 saves from James Reimer.

The Panthers remained atop the Southeast Division, one point ahead of Washington.

BLACKHAWKS 4, BLUES 3, SO

CHICAGO (AP) — Patrick Kane had the only goal in a shootout, and Chicago beat NHL-leading St. Louis and snapped the Blues’ five-.

Kane was the first skater and made a nice fake before beating Jaroslav Halak. Chicago goalie , who entered the game in the second period after starter Ray Emery was pulled, stopped T.J. Oshie, Andy McDonald and then in the shootout.

Brent Seabrook’s long slap shot from the blue line on a power play sailed past a screened Halak and tied the game at 7:41 of the third. The score came on Chicago’s fifth power play and ended the Blues’ streak of consecutive penalty kills at 51.

Jamie Langenbrunner, McDonald and had goals in the first period for St. Louis when the Blues built a 3-1 lead.

Chicago’s Andrew Brunette opened the scoring and Viktor Stalberg added a goal in the second period.

FLAMES 3, SHARKS 2, OT

CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Matt Stajan scored 4:20 into overtime, and Jarome Iginla reached 30 goals as Calgary beat San Jose in a pivotal Western Conference matchup.

In the final minute of overtime, the Flames came in on a 2-on-1 break and executed it perfectly. Blake Comeau sent a pass across to Stajan, who scored his fifth of the season into an open side.

Sven Baertschi also scored for the Flames (33-25-12), who have won four straight.

Logan Couture scored his 29th and 30th goals for San Jose (34-25-10). Despite having just one win in seven games (1-3-3), the Sharks have moved into eighth place in the Western Conference.

Calgary and Colorado are even with the Sharks at 78 points, but San Jose has one game in hand on Calgary and two on the Avalanche.

Iginla reached 30 goals for the 11th straight season, a feat accomplished by only six others in NHL history: Wayne Gretzky, Phil Esposito, Bobby Hull, Marcel Dionne, Jaromir Jagr and Mike Gartner.

Iginla has scored goals in five straight games, and has at least one point (seven goals, five assists) in seven consecutive.

KINGS 5, RED WINGS 2

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Drew Doughty had a goal and his first assist in 19 games, Anze Kopitar had a short-handed goal and an assist, and Los Angeles beat injury-depleted Detroit.

Jeff Carter and Justin Williams also had a goal and an assist, and Jonathan Quick made 22 saves in the Kings’ fifth victory in seven games. Los Angeles avenged a loss in Detroit four days earlier and emphatically avoided a season sweep by the Red Wings, pulling the Kings into a four-way tie for eighth place in the Western Conference.

Jiri Hudler and Johan Franzen scored and Jimmy Howard stopped 22 shots in his return from a three-game absence with a groin injury for the fourth-place Red Wings, who played without injured stars Nicklas Lidstrom and Pavel Datsyuk.

Detroit has lost four of five midway.

Slava Voynov scored a power-play goal in the third period for the Kings, and Carter added an empty-net goal.

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NHL Roundup: Bruins slam Capitals 4-1

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Tim Thomas #30 of the stops a shot as teammate #33 shoves Zenon Konopka #28 of the on January 31, 2012 at TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Tim Thomas’ return to the nation’s capital was less political and more successful, with the goaltender making 35 saves Sunday in the Boston Bruins’ 4-1 win over the Washington Capitals.

Playing about 10 blocks from the White House — a place he famously avoided because of his political views two weeks ago when the reigning Stanley Cup champions were honored by President — Thomas shut out the Capitals until late in the third period as the Bruins snapped a two-game losing streak.

Milan Lucic and scored first-period goals, and Tyler Seguin and Rich Peverley tallied in the third for the Bruins, who built a 3-0 lead and rediscovered some offensive pop after scoring only once during their two-.

scored the lone goal for the Capitals, who have lost three of four and haven’t scored a power-play goal in seven games. , getting the call again a day after shutting out Montreal, had 26 saves.

RANGERS 5, FLYERS 2

NEW YORK (AP) — Artem Anisimov had a goal and two assists, made 21 saves and the Rangers continued their recent success against the Flyers.

, Michael , and Ruslan Fedotenko also scored for Eastern Conference-leading New York, which has won six straight against Philadelphia, including their this season. It was Anisimov’s first points in 18 games.

Brayden Schenn and scored for the Flyers, which lost for the in four games. It was their first game against the Rangers since the Winter Classic in Philadelphia on Jan. 2.

Lundqvist’s career-best shutout streak ended at 182 minutes, 37 seconds when Schenn scored in the second period, but the All-Star goaltender still improved to 24-14-4 on the season.

DEVILS 5, PENGUINS 2

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Ilya Kovalchuk had a goal and two assists, and New Jersey extended its winning streak to four.

Anton Volchenkov, Dainius Zubrus, Zach Parise and David Clarkson also scored for the Devils, who remained perfect since the All Star break while equaling their season-best win streak. Kovalchuk has been the key to the surge with three goals and seven assists in the four games.

Martin Brodeur made 28 saves to improve to 11-2 in his last 13 decisions against Pittsburgh. He also got an assist on Clarkson’s empty-net score in the closing seconds.

Matt Niskanen and Evgeni Malkin scored for the Penguins who had won nine of 10.

CANADIENS 3, JETS 0

MONTREAL (AP) — Carey Price made 23 saves for his third shutout of the season, Tomas Plekanec had a goal and an assist and the Canadiens ended a three-game losing streak.

Max Pacioretty scored his 19th goal in the first and made it 2-0 with a short-handed goal 7:20 into the second. Plekanec, who set up Emelin’s goal, was credited with his 11th goal on a power play at 11:28.

Price made a lunging glove save on Antti Miettinen, then a sprawling stop on the forward’s backhand off the rebound 2:46 into the third to preserve his 15th career shutout.

Ondrej Pavelec stopped 20 shots for Winnipeg, which lost its second in a row.

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