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Movements in the world of hockey Wednesday:National Hockey LeagueANAHEIM DUCKS-Assigned D Nathan McIver to Iowa (AHL).BUFFALO SABRES-Activated D Teppo Numminen from injured reserve.

Detailed summaries from yesterday’s games:.Maple Leafs 0 at Sabres 5First Period1. Buffalo, Connolly 10 (Rivet, Vanek) 2:232. Buffalo, Stafford 14 (MacArthur, Numminen) 12:52Penalties – Schenn Tor (hooking) 7:57, Mitchell Tor (roughing), Butler Buf (hooking) 11:04, Rivet Buf (hooking) 13:18, Moore Tor (holding) 14:54, Ponikarovsky Tor (interference) 18:50.

DETROIT – Niklas Lidstrom’s power-play goal with 38 seconds left lifted the Detroit Red Wings to a 5-4 win over the Phoenix Coyotes on Wednesday night.

ST. PAUL, Minn. – Andrew Brunette and Mikko Koivu scored goals, and All-Star Niklas Backstrom made them stand with his sixth shutout of the season to lead the Minnesota Wild past the Anaheim Ducks 3-0 on Wednesday night.

PITTSBURGH – Evgeni Malkin finished a frantic Pittsburgh rally with 15.5 seconds left in overtime for his second goal and the Penguins, looking lifeless while trailing by three goals early in the third, surged to beat Tampa Bay 4-3 on Wednesday night.

HAMILTON – The Syracuse Crunch got strong goaltending from Sebastian Dahm and two goals in a 4:19 span in the third period to beat the Hamilton Bulldogs 2-1 in American Hockey League action Wednesday.

PHOENIX – NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said the league is trying to help the financially struggling Phoenix Coyotes and called reports of the franchise’s demise “ridiculous” on Wednesday night.

PHILADELPHIA – David Krejci and Dennis Wideman scored 25 seconds apart in the third period, lifting the NHL-leading Boston Bruins to a 3-1 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers on Wednesday night.

OTTAWA – The struggling Ottawa Senators recalled right-winger Ryan Shannon from the team’s American Hockey League affiliate Wednesday.Shannon played two games for Ottawa earlier this season, recording one assist.

TORONTO – Paul Kelly thinks the National Hockey League should look to Canada first if the current economic downturn forces one of the existing 30 franchises to find a new home.

RALEIGH, N.C. – Carolina captain Rod Brind’Amour is coming back from the Hurricanes’ West Coast trip early due to a lower-body injury.The Hurricanes said Wednesday that Brind’Amour would not play Thursday night at San Jose.

BROSSARD, Que. – Going into the season, Maxim Lapierre was a modest, fourth-line checking centre with a gift for getting on opposing players’ nerves.

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Lindy Ruff figures there’s no way to put together this kind of streak without a little good fortune.As the longest-tenured man in a volatile profession, the Buffalo Sabres coach doesn’t get surprised when he hears that another member of the fraternity has lost his job.

TORONTO – The head of the NHL Players’ Association believes it’s time to consider a rule mandating helmet use during fights, and to examine the role of one-dimensional enforcers in the game.

OTTAWA – Former Ottawa Senators assistant coach Curtis Hunt agreed Wednesday to become head coach of the team’s AHL affiliate, the Binghamton Senators.

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Justin Pogge has earned another NHL start.The Toronto Maple Leafs have recalled the 22-year-old goaltender and plan to start him against the Buffalo Sabres later in the evening.

Scoring summaries from Tuesday’s NHL games:Penguins 2 at Canadiens 4First Period1. Pittsburgh, Caputi 1 (Thomas, Scuderi) 2:302. Montreal, Hamrlik 3 (S.

VANCOUVER, B.C. – Alex Burrows scored short-handed with less than 90 seconds left in regulation and the Vancouver Canucks ended a bitter nine-game home losing streak with a 4-3 win over the Carolina Hurricanes on Tuesday.

DALLAS – Marty Turco’s solid goaltending and an improved power play are pushing the Dallas Stars up the Western Conference standings.Turco stopped 24 shots, Jere Lehtinen and rookie James Neal scored power-play goals, and the Stars stretched their season-long winning streak to five games with a 3-1 victory over the Calgary Flames on Tuesday night.

OTTAWA – The Cory Clouston era in Ottawa started the same way the Craig Hartsburg one ended: with a loss.With Clouston making his NHL coaching debut, the Senators went out and showed there’s still plenty of work to be done in Ottawa after getting shut out 1-0 by the Los Angeles Kings on home ice.