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LOS ANGELES – After nine consecutive wins in shootouts, the Los Angeles Kings were due. So were the Edmonton Oilers, after a franchise-record 11 straight road losses

CALGARY – After the game, Brenden Morrow could only look back on it and laugh.The Dallas Stars winger overcame scoring on his net to set up the tying and go-ahead goals Thursday night as the Dallas Stars got two goals from Mike Ribeiro in a 3-1 victory over the Calgary Flames

TAMPA, Fla. – When you’ve struggled like the Boston Bruins have lately, any win is a good one.”Two points are so valuable right now,” coach Claude Julien said Thursday night after the Bruins nearly blew a five-goal lead before hanging on for a 5-4 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning

DETROIT – The San Jose Sharks finally beat the Detroit Red Wings.Patrick Marleau scored the lone goal in a shootout to give San Jose a 3-2 victory over Detroit on Thursday night

SUNRISE, Fla. – Roberto Luongo joked that he played the angles perfectly after the goal-starved Florida Panthers hit six posts.Luongo made 31 saves for his fourth shutout of the season, and Alex Burrows and Jannik Hansen scored second-period goals in the Vancouver Canucks’ 3-0 victory over the Panthers on Thursday night

RALEIGH, N.C. – A defender falls down at the wrong time, and seconds later, the puck is in the net and the game is over. The Carolina Hurricanes finally are catching the breaks that for so long went the other way

OTTAWA – It wasn’t quite up to all-star game levels, but the Ottawa Senators and Washington Capitals did their best to take defence out of hockey Thursday night

SUNRISE, Fla. – The Florida Panthers have traded centre Dominic Moore to the Montreal Canadiens for a second-round draft pick in 2011.Moore, signed by the Panthers as a free agent after the start of the 2009-10 season, had eight goals and nine assists in 48 games for Florida

CHICAGO – Joel Quenneville had prepared for life after hockey knowing his playing career was winding down and he might have to leave the sport he loved

ANAHEIM, Calif. – The Anaheim Ducks won’t play at home for the next three weeks, which makes the Olympic break a terrible inconvenience for a team that hasn’t lost at Honda Center since the first week in December

ST. PAUL, Minn. – Minnesota Wild goalie Niklas Backstrom was back between the pipes on Wednesday night against Phoenix for the first time in seven games

DENVER – Kyle Cumiskey expected to find some resistance when he entered Atlanta’s zone. When he didn’t, he skated through the Thrashers and capped a big rally

ST. PAUL, Minn. – With their first trip to the playoffs since 2002 inching closer and closer to a certainty, the Phoenix Coyotes may want to find a way to face Minnesota in round one

MONTREAL – After blowing a three-goal lead in the third period against the NHL’s hottest team, it would have been easy for the Montreal Canadiens to fold

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Columbus Blue Jackets have assigned forward Mike Blunden to the club’s American Hockey League affiliate in Syracuse.Blue Jackets general manager Scott Howson announced the move shortly after the team’s 3-0 victory over San Jose on Wednesday night

PITTSBURGH – Luckily for the Pittsburgh Penguins on a night they were outplayed by the New York Islanders for some lengthy stretches, Evgeni Malkin knows what to do when the puck finds his stick

NEW YORK – Dan Ellis showed no signs of rust in a frenetic third period.Playing for only the second time in nine games, Elllis made 37 saves – including 18 in the final 20 minutes – and protected the Nashville Predators’ 2-1 victory over the New York Rangers on Wednesday night

NEWARK, N.J. – There was a time earlier this season when the Philadelphia Flyers knew a two-goal deficit was tantamount to a loss.Not anymore, and certainly not against the New Jersey Devils

COLUMBUS, Ohio – It may be too late to get the Columbus Blue Jackets back in the playoff chase, but Steve Mason has suddenly solved his problems

NEWARK, N.J. – New Jersey and U.S. Olympic forward Zach Parise was scratched from the Devils’ game against the Philadelphia Flyers on Wednesday night with an undisclosed upper body injury