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NEW YORK – For the fourth straight year, the Toronto Maple Leafs are the NHL’s most valuable team, according to Forbes magazine’s annual survey

DENVER – The Colorado Avalanche have activated forward Darcy Tucker from the injured reserve list.He was activated in time for Wednesday night’s game against the Chicago Blackhawks

The struggling Carolina Hurricanes have placed goalie Cam Ward on injured reserve with a left leg injury.The Hurricanes made a pair of moves before Wednesday night’s game against Los Angeles

TORONTO – The NHL’s general managers are getting closer to making a recommendation about how to curb headshots.The league’s 30 GMs and their assistants wrapped up meetings with a discussion of the issue Wednesday and decided to formulate a small committee to take a closer look at it before they get together again in March

DETROIT – The Detroit Red Wings have claimed forward Drew Miller off waivers from the Tampa Bay Lightning.The 25-year-old native of Dover, N

ATLANTA – Atlanta Thrashers star Ilya Kovalchuk will be with the team for Thursday night’s game at the New York Rangers after all.Hours after team spokesman Rob Koch said Kovalchuk did not accompany the Thrashers to New York on Wednesday, Koch said late Wednesday night a weather delay before the flight changed the plan

Results Tuesday:AHL Rochester 4 Hamilton 1Binghamton 5 Norfolk 3ECHLBakersfield 3 Stockton 2South Carolina 4 Elmira 3 (SO)Utah 3 Las Vegas 2IHLNo Games Scheduled

Scoring summaries from Tuesday’s NHL games:Wild 5 at Maple Leafs 2First Period1. Minnesota, Havlat 2 (Hnidy) 17:42 (pp)2. Toronto, Ponikarovsky 7 (White, Kaberle) 18:08Penalties – Ponikarovsky Tor (boarding) 4:52, Wallin Tor (holding the stick) 16:07

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Scott Nichol took care of the small details that led to a big victory for the San Jose Sharks.Dan Boyle scored with a minute left in the third period to lift the Sharks to a 4-3 victory over the Nashville Predators on Tuesday night

Movements in the world of hockey Tuesday:National Hockey LeagueMONTREAL CANADIENS-Reassigned G Robert Mayer from Cincinnati (ECHL) to Hamilton (AHL)

TORONTO – Chris Chelios could find his way back to the NHL this season.

Phoenix Coyotes GM Don Maloney is badly in need of a defenceman and plans to travel to San Antonio to scout the 47-year-old defenceman in person on Friday night

ST. LOUIS – The St. Louis Blues believed they were due for a breakout game at home. Andy McDonald, Brad Boyes and David Perron paved the way for an offensive outburst

MONTREAL – A physical game between Canadian rivals turned into a goaltending duel and it was Calgary’s Miikka Kiprusoff who got the better of Montreal’s Jaroslav Halak

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Alexander Salak made 38 saves for Rochester as the Americans beat the Hamilton Bulldogs 4-1 in American Hockey League action Tuesday

OTTAWA – Jason Spezza may have scored the deciding goal in the shootout, but Pascal Leclaire won the game for the Ottawa Senators.Leclaire made 31 saves and the Senators twice came from behind for a 4-3 win over the Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday night

TORONTO – The work-in-progress Toronto Maple Leafs took a big step backwards Tuesday night after two weeks of steady gains, following up one of their best performances of the season with one of their worst

BOSTON – Ex-Penguin Mark Recchi knows Sidney Crosby too well to think that his current slump might be a long-term condition.”It’s just one of those things where he’s in a rut right now,” Recchi said after tallying his 900th career assist in the Boston Bruins’ 3-0 victory over Pittsburgh

TORONTO – Toronto Maple Leafs defenceman Mike Komisarek left Tuesday night’s game versus the Minnesota Wild with a lower-body injury.It’s unclear when he was injured

TORONTO – The NHL is thinking about trying to renegotiate the contentions lease agreement between the Phoenix Coyotes and the city of Glendale

TORONTO – The first day of GM meetings didn’t produce many fireworks – although the group decided not to recommend a change to the trapezoid rule that limits where goalies can play the puck behind their net