SPORTS SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 2015 Sharks drown Ducks, Blues roll

SAN JOSE: Patrick Marleau, Barclay Goodrow and James Sheppard each had a and an assist, and the used a five goal second period to beat the 6-3 on Thursday night. Joe Pavelski scored in the first as the Sharks improved to 4-0-1 against the division-leading Ducks this season. Antti Niemi made 25 stops in his third consecutive win, helping San Jose extend its home winning streak against Anaheim to seven. Andrew Cogliano, Matt Beleskey and Patrick Maroon scored for the Ducks, who allowed six goals in their previous five games. Anaheim had won six in a row. Ducks goaltender Ilya Bryzgalov made 19 saves before being replaced by Frederik Andersen late in the second period.

BLUES 5, PREDATORS 4 Kevin Shattenkirk scored in the shootout, lift- ing St. Louis to the win. Jaden Schwartz, T.J. Oshie, Steve Ott and Ryan Reaves scored in reg- ulation for the Blues (30-13-4), who improved to 8-0-1 over their last nine games. Brian Elliott made 33 saves. Mike Fisher had two goals and an assist for Nashville (31-10-6), which fell to 12-8-5 on the road. Carter Hutton made 31 saves. The Predators, who also got goals from Filip Forsberg and James Neal, finished 3-1-1 against the Blues this season.

LIGHTNING 5, RED WINGS 1 Cedric Paquette had three goals, sending Tampa Bay to a franchise-record ninth consecu- tive home win. Steven Stamkos and Mark Barberio also scored for the Lightning, who leapfrogged the Red Wings into first place in the Atlantic Division by a point. Jonathan Drouin COLUMBUS: Brian Elliott No. 1 of the St. Louis Blues and Team Foligno and Brent Burns No. 88 of the San Jose†Sharks defend. — AFP and Alex Killorn had two assists apiece. Tampa Miller put the Bruins ahead for good with 3.4 utes left. Mike Smith had 24 saves for Arizona. WILD 1, FLAMES 0 Bay took a 4-1 lead at 11:03 of the second when seconds left in the second. He intercepted Halak’s Jonathan Bernier finished with 42 stops for Zach Parise scored in the first period for Paquette completed his first hat trick from the clearing attempt at the right-wing boards just Toronto. Minnesota, and Devan Dubnyk stopped 30 shots. It right circle during a short-handed 2-on-1. The inside the blue line, and fired a quick that was Parise’s sixth goal in his last six games and No. center has four goals in the past two games lifted Boston to a 3-2 lead. CANADIENS 1, RANGERS 0 20 on the season. assisted on the after going 29 straight without one. Max Pacioretty scored with 4:17 left, sending only score 8:59 into the game. Minnesota (22-20-6) Darren Helm scored for Detroit, which had COYOTES 3, MAPLE LEAFS 1 Montreal to the road win. Pacioretty converted a moved within five points of the Flames and the won six in a row. Paquette opened the scoring Oliver Ekman-Larsson scored off the opening wrist shot from above the right circle that second wild-card spot in the Western Conference. 2:03 into the game when he used his backhand faceoff of the third period, and Arizona rallied for appeared to surprise Rangers goalie Henrik The Wild have picked up five of six possible points to beat Petr Mrazek on a rebound. His right-cir- the road win. Ekman-Larsson’s 13th goal was a Lundqvist. It squeezed inside the right post for so far on a four-game trip that wraps up Sunday in cle goal gave Tampa Bay a 2-1 lead with 36.2 harmless flip from almost his own blue line and Pacioretty’s 22nd goal. That was enough to give Vancouver. Calgary (26-20-3) dropped to 1-1 on a seconds left in the first. seemed to stun the already-subdued crowd. Carey Price his 26th win and third shutout of the six-game homestand, which continues Saturday At five seconds, the short handed goal tied season in a stellar 24-save effort for Montreal, against Edmonton. Jonas Hiller had 31 saves. STARS 6, SENATORS 3 the fastest of any kind to start a period in Coyotes which has won four in a row - three with Price in Jamie Benn scored two goals, and the Stars franchise history, matching Doug Smail of the net. Lundqvist made 25 saves for the Rangers, FLYERS 5, JETS 2 beat the Senators in Jason Spezza’s first game in first Winnipeg Jets in 1981. Martin Hanzal had a who have lost two straight following the All-Star Wayne Simmonds, Chris VandeVelde, Nick Ottawa since he was traded to Dallas in the off- tiebreaking goal at 3:47 of the third, and Sam break and managed only one goal. They were Schultz and Brayden Schenn scored, leading season. John Klingberg, Colton Sceviour, Ales Gagner added a power-play goal with 3 1/2 min- beaten 4-1 by the Islanders on Tuesday. Philadelphia to its fourth win in five games. Hemsky and Trevor Daley also scored for Dallas, Sean Couturier added an empty-netter, and and Kari Lehtonen made 25 saves. Steve Mason made 36 saves. Mathieu Perreault Mika Zibanejad, Bobby Ryan and Alex NHL results/standings scored twice for the Jets. Michael Hutchinson had Chiasson scored for Ottawa. Robin Lehner, mak- 27 stops. Schultz snapped a tie game in the second ing his first start since January 13th, stopped 35 period with his first goal of the season, ending a shots. Spezza made his NHL debut with Ottawa Boston 5, NY Islanders 2; Montreal 1, NY Rangers 0; Philadelphia 5, Winnipeg 2; Arizona 3, 125-game drought. Petra Straka got his first NHL in 2002 and had spent his entire career with the Toronto 1; Dallas 6, Ottawa 3; Tampa Bay 5, Detroit 1; Florida 3, Columbus 2; St. Louis 5, point on the assist, and Ryan White also had his Senators before the trade. The former Senators Nashville 4 (SO); Minnesota 1, Calgary 0; Edmonton 3, Buffalo 2; San Jose 6, Anaheim 3. first assist of the season on the goal. captain got a standing ovation from the crowd Western Conference Eastern Conference of 18,752 following a video tribute early in the Pacific Division Atlantic Division PANTHERS 3, BLUE JACKETS 2 first period. The Stars grabbed a 4-3 lead mid- W L OTL GF GA PTS Tampa Bay 31 15 4 163 132 66 Sean Bergenheim scored late in the third period, Montreal 31 13 3 127 108 65 way through the third period when Klingberg Anaheim 32 11 6 146 130 70 and Florida snapped a five-game losing streak. Aaron Detroit 28 12 9 145 128 65 Ekblad and Jonathan Huberdeau also scored for the took advantage of an Ottawa turnover to break San Jose 26 17 6 137 135 58 Boston 26 16 7 131 123 59 Panthers, and Roberto Luongo made 30 saves. It was in alone and beat Lehner with a wrist shot. Vancouver 26 17 3 124 118 55 Florida 21 15 10 114 129 52 Florida’s first win over Columbus since a 5-2 victory on Calgary 26 20 3 140 127 55 Toronto 22 24 4 144 155 48 BRUINS 5, ISLANDERS 2 Ottawa 19 19 9 129 134 47 Nov. 21, 2007 - a span of 11 games. Alexander Los Angeles 21 15 12 133 129 54 Buffalo 14 32 3 92 174 31 Wennberg and Jack Johnson scored for the Blue Boston’s Kevan Miller scored the go-ahead Arizona 17 25 6 111 161 40 goal late in the second period, and Tuukka Rask Metropolitan Division Jackets, and Curtis McElhinney stopped 29 shots. Edmonton 13 27 9 113 162 35 NY Islanders 32 15 1 157 135 65 stopped 43 shots. Reilly Smith, Patrice Bergeron, Central Division Pittsburgh 27 13 8 143 124 62 OILERS 3, SABRES 2 Torey Krug and Zdeno Chara also scored for Washington 25 14 9 144 124 59 Boston, which won for the seventh time in 10 Nashville 31 10 6 145 112 68 NY Rangers 27 15 4 135 111 58 Anton Lander scored his first goal of the season games. Smith and Milan Lucic also had two St. Louis 30 13 4 153 115 64 Philadelphia 21 22 7 139 151 49 for Edmonton, and also had two assists. Matt Fraser assists apiece. Chicago 30 16 2 151 112 62 Columbus 21 23 3 119 148 45 and Oscar Klefbom also scored for Edmonton (13- Winnipeg 26 16 8 140 127 60 New Jersey 18 22 8 109 135 44 27-9), which has won three of four. Defensemen John Tavares and Michael Grabner scored for Carolina 17 25 5 102 122 39 New York, and Jaroslav Halak stopped 28 shots. Dallas 22 19 7 152 157 51 Tyler Myers and Rasmus Ristolainen scored for the Note: Overtime losses (OTL) are worth one Sabres (14-31-3), who have lost a franchise-worst The Metropolitan Division-leading Islanders Colorado 20 18 11 128 141 51 point in the standings and are not included in dropped to 17-5 at home this season. Minnesota 22 20 6 131 138 50 the loss column (L). 13 games in a row and only have one win in their last 18. — AP