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Scoring summaries from Thursday’s NHL games:Senators 1 at Hurricanes 4First Period1. Carolina, Kostopoulos 8 (Boychuk) 5:182. Carolina, Brind’Amour 6 (Boychuk, Carson) 6:23Penalty – T

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Dany Heatley scored the tying goal and Manny Malhotra delivered the winner in a span of less than three minutes in the third period to lead the San Jose Sharks to a 3-2 victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Thursday night

Movements in the world of hockey Thursday:National Hockey LeagueBOSTON BRUINS-Placed G Dany Sabourin on re-entry waivers for the purpose of recall

DALLAS – The St. Louis Blues are working on another late-season surge.Paul Kariya scored twice, combining with Brad Boyes for a pair of goals during a 17-second span of the first period, and the Blues extended their winning streak to a season-best five games with a 6-1 victory over the Dallas Stars on Thursday night

GLENDALE, Ariz. – Wojtek Wolski left the Colorado Avalanche behind – again.Wolski beat his former Colorado teammates in his Phoenix debut, scoring the go-ahead goal with 22 seconds left in the Coyotes’ 3-1 victory Thursday night

NASHVILLE – The surging Los Angeles Kings still haven’t found a way to beat the Nashville Predators.J.P. Dumont, Jason Arnott, Marcel Goc and Jerred Smithson scored, and Pekka Rinne made 20 saves in the Predators’ 4-2 victory over the Kings on Thursday night

NEW YORK – Marc-Andre Fleury stopped only eight of 12 shots, but was let off the hook by his high-scoring teammates. Henrik Lundqvist made a career-best 50 saves and had only a hard-luck loss to show for it

WASHINGTON – Scott Walker had simple goals before taking the ice Thursday night for his first game with the Washington Capitals.He was just hoping not to derail the his new teammates, who had the best record in the league before he joined the team in a trade at the deadline Wednesday

BOSTON – Tim Thomas picked up more at the Olympics than a silver medal and a dozen minutes of ice time.The U.S. backup once again looked like the goalie who won the 2009 Vezina Trophy on Thursday night, returning from a slump that left him on two different teams’ benches to beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-2 in a shootout

RALEIGH, N.C. – Manny Legace was still smarting that former teammate Matt Cullen broke up his shutout for the Carolina Hurricanes.The Carolina goalie’s mood brightened considerably when reminded that the Hurricanes’ 4-1 victory over the Ottawa Senators gave him at least one victory over all 30 current NHL franchises

ATLANTA – The new-look Atlanta Thrashers made it look easy against the New York Islanders on Thursday night.Nik Antropov had two goals and an assist, and Clarke MacArthur and Evgeny Artyukhin scored in their Atlanta debuts to help the Thrashers beat the Islanders 6-3

DALLAS – The Dallas Stars activated defenceman Mark Fistric off injured reserve prior to their game Thursday night against the St. Louis Blues

CALGARY – The morning after being blanked 4-0 by the Minnesota Wild, the Calgary Flames turned their attention toward preparing for their final 19 games of the season with two new players in the fold

Although the United States men’s Olympic hockey team came up dramatically short in its gold medal pursuit at the Vancouver Winter Games, the architects of Team USA still feel in some way like they came out on top

PHILADELPHIA – The Flyers loaded up on prospects a day after staying quiet at the NHL trade deadline.Philadelphia signed signed Eric Wellwood, Luke Pither and Shane Harper to future contracts, which will begin at the start of next season, the club announced Thursday

The popular stick among kids has been taken off the shelves and a recall may be on the horizon. – A popular stick used by thousands of children across North America has been found to have dangerously high levels of lead in the paint on them, THN

DETROIT – Red Wings captain Nicklas Lidstrom says he is confident Detroit will be in the playoffs next month.Detroit would be the eighth-seeded team in the Western Conference playoffs if the season ended now

Scoring summaries from Wednesday’s NHL games:Canucks 6 at Red Wings 3First Period1. Vancouver, Kesler 17 (Raymond, Rome) 3:342. Detroit, Ja.Williams 5 (Zetterberg, Bertuzzi) 14:503

ABBOTSFORD, B.C. – The Providence Bruins beat the Abbotsford Heat in a shootout for the second straight night as Yannick Riendeau scored in the sixth round of a 3-2 victory in American Hockey League action Wednesday

CALGARY – Niklas Backstrom played second fiddle to Mikka Kiprusoff for Finland at the Winter Games, but the Wild netminder took centre stage on Wednesday night