SPORTS SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2013 Red Wings end Avalanche winning streak

DENVER: Johan Franzen scored two goals, including the Jason Pominville and Dany Heatley. scored for Reimer to an injury. It was the Maple Leafs’ first loss since tiebreaker with 12:50 remaining, and Jonas Gustavsson Minnesota, which was coming off a loss at Toronto. Oct 8. Hainsey’s was controversial because he stopped 38 shots, lifting the to a 4-2 win Harding, who entered with an 0.94 goals-against-average, banked a pass off the boards in his defensive zone that over Colorado on Thursday night and snapping the made a pad save on Stamkos during a two-man breakaway appeared to be icing. No Hurricanes player touched the Avalanche’s six-game winning streak under new coach late in the second. Koivu tied it at 1 from the low left circle puck, but Carolina forward Radek Dvorak beat Leafs Patrick Roy. Pavel Datsyuk also had two goals, and Daniel at 11:05 of the third. Tampa Bay Martin St. Louis defensemen Morgan Rielly and Cody Franson to the cir- Alfredsson added three assists for the Red Wings, who lost was in the lineup two days after taking a off his skate cles. The linesman waived off icing, and goalie Jonathan dependable defenseman early when he was during a victory over Los Angeles. Bernier didn’t play the puck. It deflected off the boards, carried off the ice on a stretcher after being rammed into off his right skate and into the net. Bernier allowed three the boards by Cody McLeod. Erik Johnson and Gabriel ISLANDERS 3, OILERS 2 goals on 14 shots in the third period after stopping the Landeskog scored for the Avalanche, who finished a win John Tavares netted the go-ahead goal late in the sec- first 23 he faced in relief of Reimer, who left 32 seconds in short of matching the franchise record for best start (7-0), ond period, and the overcame a quick with an apparent head injury. Toronto forward Josh Leivo set by the 1985-86 Quebec Nordiques. Datsyuk sealed the scoring spurt by Edmonton’s Taylor Hall. Tavares beat accidentally collided with Reimer as the goalie was trying win when he scored off his own rebound with 6:25 left. goalie Devan Dubnyk with a snap shot in front with 1:07 left to cover the puck outside the crease. Joffrey Lupul scored in the second off a pass from Kyle Okposo. It was the fourth his sixth goal of the season 2:30 into the second period STARS 4, SHARKS 3, SO goal of the season for the Islanders captain. Okposo had for Toronto. Leivo netted his first NHL goal 6:47 into the Cody Eakin tied it at 12:58 of the second period and scored his second of the season during a power play at 4:54 second. Carolina defenseman Ryan Murphy scored a pow- rookie Alex Chiasson scored the only goal of the shootout of the second to make it 2-2. Josh Bailey put New York er-play goal at 2:54 of the third, and Eric Staal beat Bernier as Dallas ended San Jose’s perfect start to the season. The ahead 1-0 in the first before Hall struck. Hall gave the Oilers at 6:48. Sharks (6-0-1) fell one game shy of tying last season’s, team- record 7-0 start. Dallas also got goals from Tyler Seguin and Trevor Daley. Dan Ellis stopped 32 shots. Tyler Kennedy, Matthew Nieto and Patrick Marleau scored for San Jose. Antti Niemi made 28 saves. The Stars outshot San Jose 31- 29 in regulation, but the Sharks recorded all five shots in overtime.

PENGUINS 4, FLYERS 1 Sidney Crosby, Jussi Jokinen and Chris Kunitz scored, leading Pittsburgh past Philadelphia. added an empty-net goal in the final seconds. The Penguins were the latest team to beat the NHL-worst Flyers. Off to their worst start after eight games, the Flyers are 1-7 and mired in last place with two points. Jokinen and Kunitz both scored in the second, and Marc-Andre Fleury made it stand with 24 saves. Wayne Simmonds had the lone goal for the Flyers, who have yet to score more than two in a game this season. Crosby, who has 29 career goals against the Flyers, has a career-best, seven-game point streak to start the season.

BLUES 3, BLACKHAWKS 2, SO TJ Oshie scored the lone goal in the shootout, Jaroslav Halak stopped all three Chicago shooters in the tiebreaker, and St Louis Blues defeated the Blackhawks. David Backes scored a power-play goal for St. Louis, and Alexander Steen was credited with an even-strength score in the Blues’ first road game. Marian Hossa scored on a breakaway and set up Brandon Pirri’s first NHL goal for Chicago (4-1-2). All but one of the Blackhawks’ games have been decided by one goal. The Blues (5-1) started the season with five straight home games, and won the first four before losing 6-2 to San Jose on Tuesday. Chicago’s Corey Crawford made 26 saves through overtime. Halak stopped 27 shots.

BRUINS 3, PANTHERS 2 Reilly Smith scored the winning goal with 59 seconds left, and Boston beat Florida. Smith backhanded the puck between the legs of goalie Tim Thomas after a faceoff in the FLORIDA: goalie Tuukka Rask (40) prepares to stop a shot by right wing Kris Versteeg (32) in Panthers zone. The goal spoiled Thomas’ first game against the second period of an NHL hockey game as Patrice Bergeron (37) defends. — AP his former team since he joined Florida as a free agent. Dougie Hamilton and Daniel Paille also scored for the a 2-1 lead when he scored a pair of goals just 8 seconds CANADIENS 5, BLUE JACKETS 3 Bruins. Tuukka Rask made 27 saves. Jesse Winchester and apart in the first. That broke the club mark of 9 seconds, set Tomas Plekanec scored with 1:07 left to break a tie and Kris Versteeg scored for the Panthers, and the 39-year-old by Wayne Gretzky on Feb 18, 1981. Tavares, who assisted on added an empty net goal to give Montreal a victory over Thomas stopped 37 shots in his return to the lineup after Okposo’s goal, has points in six straight games. New York Columbus. Columbus was on a last minute power play sustaining a groin injury on Oct 8. (3-2-2) has played six one-goal games this season. The when Plekanec pushed Brandon Prust’s pass into the empty struggling Oilers fell to 1-6-1. net with 16 seconds remaining. It was Montreal’s second KINGS 2, PREDATORS 1, SO short-handed goal of the game after Andrei Markov’s sec- Anze Kopitar scored the only goal of the shootout, lifting CANUCKS 3, SABRES 0 ond-period effort. Michael Bournival got his first NHL goal, Los Angeles over Nashville. Slava Voynov scored in regula- Roberto Luongo made 25 saves in Vancouver’s shutout and Rene Bourque also scored for Montreal (5-2), which has tion time for the Kings, who have won four of five. In the win over Buffalo. Brad Richardson, Chris Higgins and Ryan won four in a row. PK Subban had two assists for 10 points tiebreaker, Kopitar skated down the right side and elevated Stanton scored for the Canucks (5-3), who are off to their in his last six games Rookie Boone Jenner scored his first a backhander over the left shoulder of Pekka Rinne. Matt best start since they were 6-1-1 in 2005. Luongo was tested two NHL goals, and Ryan Johansen got his first of the sea- Cullen scored his first goal with the Predators at 10:33 of the with 11 shots in the third period before finishing his first son for Columbus (2-4). The Blue Jackets were missing opening period for the early lead. Nashville finished a five- shutout since Feb 22 at Nashville. The Sabres (1-7-1), winless Marian Gaborik (flu) and Nathan Horton (shoulder). game homestand 3-2. at home this season, and were again booed off the ice after the second period. Buffalo failed to build momentum after SENATORS 5, DEVILS 2 LIGHTNING 3, WILD 1 getting its first win of the season Tuesday at the New York Erik Karlsson and Jason Spezza each had a goal and two Steven Stamkos scored a tiebreaking goal with 5:04 left Islanders. The Sabres didn’t record their 10th shot until assists to lead Ottawa over New Jersey. It was the and Tampa Bay topped Minnesota. Stamkos gave the there was 5:35 left in the second period. Ryan Miller made Senators’ first victory at home after they spent the first two Lightning a 2-1 lead when he skated in from the right wing 31 saves for the Sabres, who were outshot 34-25. Mike weeks of the season on the road. , Zack Smith, boards and lifted an in-close shot over goalie Josh Harding Santorelli assisted on both goals for Vancouver. Milan Michalek also scored, and Craig Anderson stopped during 4-on-4 play. Sami Salo added an empty-net goal in 39 shots. The Devils (0-4-3) are the only NHL team without the final minute. Tyler Johnson also scored for Tampa Bay. HURRICANES 3, MAPLE LEAFS 2 a win this season. Martin Brodeur was far from his best in Ben Bishop made a series of saves midway through the sec- Ron Hainsey netted the winner in Carolina’s three-goal facing 23 shots. Travis Zajac and Steve Bernier scored for ond period, including one on solid scoring chances by third period against Toronto, which lost goalie James New Jersey. — AP