Month: March 2010

LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles Kings have reassigned goalie Jonathan Bernier to their AHL affiliate after the 21-year-old prospect impressively won a fill-in start in Dallas

CHICAGO – Alex Ovechkin was kicked out early, the Washington Capitals fell behind 3-0 and that’s when they showed why they have the NHL’s best record and highest-scoring offence

CHICAGO – NHL scoring leader Alex Ovechkin is out of the Capitals’ game against the Blackhawks after receiving a five-minute major and a game misconduct in the first period for driving Chicago’s Brian Campbell into the boards from behind

AHL Abbotsford 5 Lake Erie 3Hamilton 4 Grand Rapids 3 (SO)Toronto 3 Milwaukee 2Rockford 6 Manitoba 3Adirondack 4 Providence 0Albany 5 Wilkes-Barre/Scranton 4 (SO)Binghamton 6 Portland 2Bridgeport 3 Norfolk 2 (SO)Chicago 2 Houston 1 (SO)Hartford 6 Lowell 2Rochester 5 Syracuse 3Springfield 5 Hershey 4 (SO)Texas 5 San Antonio 4ECHLIdaho 5 Victoria 3Charlotte 4 Gwinnett 2Cincinnati 4 Elmira 3 (OT)Florida 2 South Carolina 1 (OT)Las Vegas 6 Bakersfield 2Ontario 4 Alaska 3 (SO)Reading 5 Toledo 4 (SO)Stockton 6 Utah 5 (OT)Trenton 5 Kalamazoo 4Wheeling 4 Johnstown 1IHLBloomington 8 Dayton 4Fort Wayne 5 Port Huron 1Muskegon 3 Quad City 0CentralAmarillo 6 Wichita 0Colorado 5 Tulsa 1Corpus Christi 5 Rio Grande Valley 3Laredo 5 Arizona 3Mississippi 6 Bossier-Shreveport 4Missouri 4 Odessa 3 (SO)Rapid City 5 Allen 4QMJHLNo Games Scheduled

Scoring summaries from Saturday’s games in the NHL:Oilers 4 at Maple Leafs 6First Period1. Toronto, Kulemin 14 (Bozak) 13:342. Toronto, Bozak 6 (Kessel, Kulemin) 18:05Penalty – Wallin Tor (holding) 7:35

VANCOUVER, B.C. – The Vancouver Canucks’ frantic travel schedule is behind them but Mikael Samuelsson is maintaining his torrid scoring pace

WINNIPEG – Kyle Greentree scored twice as the Rockford IceHogs defeated the Manitoba Moose 6-3 Saturday night in American Hockey League action

TORONTO – When you’re the starting goaltender for the NHL’s 30th-place team, your squad has just given up three goals in 1:36 to fall behind 5-1 to the 29th-place team and your net is being crashed, it’s easy to get frustrated

MILWAUKEE – Alex Foster’s power-play goal in the third stood up as the winner, and the Toronto Marlies held on for a 3-2 win over the Milwaukee Admirals in American Hockey League play Saturday

MONTREAL – Looking at the NHL standings has become a lot more fun for the surging Montreal Canadiens.Sergei Kostitsyn scored twice as the Canadiens won their season-high fifth straight by downing the Boston Bruins 3-2 on Saturday night

TORONTO – The Toronto Maple Leafs are doing everything they can to stay out of the NHL’s basement.The youthful top line of Tyler Bozak, Nikolai Kulemin and Phil Kessel combined for eight points Saturday as the Leafs beat the 30th-place Edmonton Oilers 6-4, giving Toronto its first three-game winning streak of the season

DETROIT – Brian Rafalski scored a power-play goal 31 seconds into overtime, lifting the Detroit Red Wings to a 3-2 victory over the Buffalo Sabres on Saturday night

UNIONDALE, N.Y. – The New Jersey Devils blamed the power play and not an absence of focus for a disappointing loss to the sliding New York Islanders

RALEIGH, N.C. – Ilya Bryzgalov made 29 saves for his NHL-leading eighth shutout, and Lee Stempniak and Martin Hanzal each scored twice to help the Phoenix Coyotes beat the Carolina Hurricanes 4-0 on Saturday night

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Unhappy with the way they were playing in the first 20 minutes, the St. Louis Blues changed direction and remained on a tear

SAN JOSE, Calif. – The Florida Panthers showed the San Jose Sharks what it’s like to be on the wrong side of a third-period comeback.Bryan Allen scored 2:46 into overtime to help the Panthers rally from an early two-goal deficit to beat the Sharks 3-2 on Saturday for their first win in San Jose in 10 years

PHILADELPHIA – Hearing his bench screaming, Chris Pronger knew he had only time for one chance.He went wide and received a perfect feed from Claude Giroux and placed a shot past a diving Cristobal Huet with 2

New York Islanders captain Doug Weight will have shoulder surgery that will certainly finish his season and could also end the centre’s 18-year NHL career

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