Month: March 2010

NASHVILLE – Pekka Rinne and the Nashville Predators made it look easy against the Minnesota Wild.Rinne made 17 saves for his fifth shutout of the season, and Colin Wilson, Jason Arnott, and Patric Hornqvist each had a goal and an assist in the Predators’ 5-0 victory over the Wild on Thursday night

SUNRISE, Fla. – With a lot of grit and a little luck, the Phoenix Coyotes earned a record-setting win Thursday night.Radim Vrbata scored with 59

TAMPA, Fla. – Jason Pominville and Buffalo Sabres made quick work of the Tampa Bay Lightning.Pominville scored three goals and the Sabres beat the Lightning 6-2 on Thursday night to move within four points of New Jersey for the No

TORONTO – With fewer than a dozen games remaining in what had long since become another lost season, the Toronto Maple Leafs stepped off the ice Thursday night well aware they were not playing for a division title, a playoff berth or anything more lofty than the promise of future employment

ATLANTA – The Atlanta Thrashers may have figured out a winning formula at the most important time of the season: get ahead by two goals, squander the lead, then pull it out

NEW YORK – Paul Kariya scored his 400th NHL goal to snap a third-period tie and the St. Louis Blues took advantage of uncharacteristically shaky Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist and beat New York 4-3 on Thursday night

RALEIGH, N.C. – Ray Whitney has found himself a leader of a very young Carolina Hurricanes team as the regular season winds down.On Thursday night, he showed the youngsters how to get it done against the best team in the NHL

DALLAS – The Philadelphia Flyers will be without starting goalie Michael Leighton for at least eight weeks because of a high ankle sprain.Leighton was injured Tuesday night in a 4-3 shootout loss at Nashville

BOSTON – The revenge-minded Boston Bruins got in some early shots. The Pittsburgh Penguins connected on the ones that counted.Marc-Andre Fleury made 17 saves for Pittsburgh’s first shutout of the season and the Penguins won 3-0 as the Bruins got little spark from their retaliation against Matt Cooke less than two minutes into the game Thursday night

BOSTON – The Bruins wasted little time retaliating against the Pittsburgh Penguins’ Matt Cooke for his blindside hit that left Boston centre Marc Savard with a Grade 2 concussion

CALGARY – Fresh off their first win of the season against the Colorado Avalanche, the Calgary Flames have renewed confidence heading down the stretch drive

TORONTO – The NHL came down hard on James Wisniewski, handing the Anaheim Ducks defenceman an eight-game suspension Thursday for his hit on Chicago’s Brent Seabrook

NEW YORK – A regional television network will broadcast next week’s New York Islanders-New York Rangers game in 3-D, joining a worldwide trend that affects few viewers now but could eventually change the way people watch sports

ANAHEIM, Calif. – For the second straight game, the Chicago Blackhawks lost a key member of their defence because of a vicious check against the boards behind the net

DENVER – The NHL playoffs don’t start until mid-April, but the desperate Calgary Flames decided to move up their post-season a month.It paid dividends against the Colorado Avalanche

Movements in the world of hockey Wednesday:National Hockey LeagueANAHEIM DUCKS-Signed D Jake Newton to a three-year contract. Re-Assigned LW Kyle Calder to Toronto (AHL)

GLENS FALLS, N.Y. – Hamilton scored three times in the final ten minutes of regulation and Ryan White got the winner in the seventh round of the shootout as the Bulldogs came back to beat the Adirondack Phantoms 6-5 in American Hockey League play Tuesday

NEWARK, N.J. – If the New Jersey Devils get past the Pittsburgh Penguins in the playoffs, they will have beaten the defending Stanley Cup champions 10 times

NEWARK, N.J. – Evgeni Malkin is out of the Pittsburgh Penguins lineup because of a right foot injury, but New Jersey Devils defenceman Paul Martin is back after missing 59 games

TORONTO – A new rule on blindsided hits to the head still has a number of hurdles to overcome if it’s going to start being called before the end of the regular season