Month: January 2010

WASHINGTON – Goal. Goal. Goal. Game over in 2½ minutes.The Southeast Division race is over with more than two months to spare.It’s no exaggeration to say the Washington Capitals have left the rest of the NHL stranded on the ice when it comes to scoring

VANCOUVER, B.C. – The NHL should realize having its players perform at the Olympics raises the league’s exposure and increases its fan base, the president of the International Olympic Committee said Thursday

TORONTO – It appears the Vancouver Canucks have ended their boycott of Hockey Night in Canada after meeting with officials from the CBC, extinguishing a feud that began when the program was highly critical of winger Alex Burrows

VANCOUVER, B.C. – The St. Louis Blues shut down the Vancouver Canucks’ dangerous top line, but Mason Raymond and Ryan Kesler were there to pick up the slack

DALLAS – Loui Eriksson scored in the third round of the shootout, goalie Alex Auld was perfect in all three rounds, and the Dallas Stars rallied from a two-goal deficit for a 4-3 victory over the slumping Calgary Flames on Wednesday night

ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Detroit Red Wings are reeling, and their attention to detail is starting to slip.The Minnesota Wild were focused from start to finish

NEW YORK – Just as the Carolina Hurricanes are finding their way for the first time in a most difficult season, the New York Rangers are trying to figure out again where their fickle offence has gone

ROCKFORD, Ill. – Curtis Sanford made 25 saves and Brock Trotter scored twice for Hamilton as the Bulldogs shut out the Rockford IceHogs 5-0 in American Hockey League play Wednesday

WASHINGTON – The score-at-will Washington Capitals put three in the net in a 2½-minute span in the third period Wednesday night, igniting a 5-1 victory over the Anaheim Ducks and matching the team’s longest winning streak in 26 years

WORCESTER, Mass. – Alex Stalock made 29 saves as the Worcester Sharks beat Manitoba 3-1 Wednesday, extending the Moose’s American Hockey League losing streak to five games

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Jochen Hecht and Jason Pominville gave the Buffalo Sabres a full two points in Ryan Miller’s pre-Olympic showdown with Martin Brodeur

TAMPA, Fla. – Key goals and strong goaltending paid off for the Tampa Bay Lightning, who finally have their first three-game winning streak of the season

HALIFAX, N.S. – Mike Danton showed little rust in his first hockey game in almost six years Wednesday night, scoring once, making and receiving big hits, and showing the hustle and skill that took him to the NHL

NASHVILLE – The Nashville Predators signed German forward Marcel Goc to a one-year extension worth US$775,000 on Wednesday.The 26-year-old Goc already has a career-high 10 goals in 49 NHL games in his first year with the Predators

PITTSBURGH – Nobody’s giving Max Talbot the superstar treatment these days.Talbot, a checking line forward for most of his five-season NHL career, significantly raised his visibility by scoring both goals for the Pittsburgh Penguins in their dramatic 2-1 victory over Detroit in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals in June

OTTAWA – The Ottawa Senators lost more than just a game the last time they visited Pittsburgh.An 8-2 blowout two days before Christmas cost Ottawa the services of its most important player, captain Daniel Alfredsson, and a measure of pride

According to the TEAM990 radio station in Montreal, Andrei Markov and Carey Price clashed in the dressing room following a 4-3 loss to St. Louis last Wednesday

ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Minnesota Wild assigned Czech winger Petr Sykora to Houston of the AHL on Wednesday, the next step toward cutting ties with him

TORONTO – Theo Fleury says he waited until he was strong enough mentally before going to police to file a sexual assault complaint against Graham James

TORONTO – Justin Pogge made a winning return to Toronto.The San Antonio goaltender made 32 saves and Mikkel Boedker and Chad Kolarik scored in the shootout to lead the visiting Rampage to a 4-3 victory over the Toronto Marlies in AHL action Wednesday afternoon