Falling to the Minnesota Wild hurt the Anaheim Ducks for one night. Losing the NHL's top-scoring defenseman is going to hurt them for a lot longer.
Pierre-Marc Bouchard scored twice and Mark Parrish added the winner in Minnesota's 4-3 victory over Anaheim on Sunday night, but Chris Pronger broke his left foot blocking Parrish's first-period shot.
Pronger is out indefinitely. He leads all defensemen with 40 points in 41 games.
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Parrish scored on a backhand shot that fooled Ducks goaltender Michael Wall with 4:18 left in the third to send the Wild to their NHL-best 16th home win. Brian Rolston also scored for Minnesota.
Ducks forward Teemu Selanne, playing his 1,000th NHL game, scored two goals and added an assist to help the Ducks tie the game after trailing 3-1. Anaheim also got a goal from Scott Niedermayer.
Wall, playing while starter Jean-Sebastien Giguere recovers from a groin injury, made 25 saves in just his fourth NHL game.
Blue Jackets 3, Blackhawks 1
In a game at Columbus, Ohio, Manny Malhotra scored the winner late in the second period to power Columbus past Chicago.
Sergei Fedorov and Duvie Westcott also scored for Columbus, now three points behind Chicago for third in the Central Division.
Red Wings 6, Kings 2
At Detroit, Pavel Datsyuk and Jason Williams each had a goal and an assist and Detroit continued its domination of Los Angeles.
Tomas Holmstrom, Valtteri Filppula, Kris Draper and Mikael Samuelsson also scored in Detroit's 12th straight win over the Kings. Mathieu Schneider added two assists for the Red Wings.
Sharks 4, Stars 2
At Dallas, Joe Thornton scored his 200th career goal and added two assists to help San Jose snap a three-game losing streak with a victory over Dallas.
Patrick Marleau, Joe Pavelski and Jonathan Cheechoo also had first-period goals for the Sharks, who were coming off an 8-0 loss to the Phoenix Coyotes on Saturday night.
Flyers 5, Hurricanes 2
At Raleigh, North Carolina, Alexei Zhitnik scored the go-ahead goal and Robert Esche played a strong game in goal in Philadelphia's victory over Carolina.
Ryan Potulny and Kyle Calder scored early in the third period for the Flyers, who were outshot 42-19 but were opportunistic enough to pull out their second straight win.
Philadelphia sealed it with an empty-netter from Mike Knuble in the final minute.
Flames 4, Oilers 2
At Calgary, Alberta, Jarome Iginla had a goal and two assists to lead Calgary past Edmonton.
Daymond Langkow, Dion Phaneuf and Chuck Kobasew also scored for the Flames in their second straight victory.
Ryan Smyth had two power-play goals for the Oilers.
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