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Hurricanes top Canucks, snap losing streak

The Carolina Hurricanes' Tim Gleason, center, and the Vancouver Canucks' Markus Naslund, left, and Henrik Sedin keep an eye on the puck in the third period of their NHL game in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Monday. Carolina won 3-1. PHOTO: AP

Cory Stillman and Chad LaRose scored for the Carolina Hurricanes, who snapped a two-game losing streak by beating the Vancouver Canucks 3-1 on Monday.

Cam Ward stopped 19 shots and improved to 5-0 in regulation, Ray Whitney had an empty-net goal and an assist, and Rod Brind'Amour added two assists for the Southeast Division-leading Hurricanes.

Carolina held a 31-20 shots advantage and dealt Vancouver its first road loss of the season and first loss in four visits to the RBC Center.

Brendan Morrison made it a one-goal game by scoring with 6:41 remaining, and Roberto Luongo stopped 28 shots for the Canucks. The reigning Northwest Division champions have lost three of four.

Sharks 4, Flames 1

At Calgary, Alberta, Milan Michalek scored twice, including a short-handed goal, to lift San Jose over Calgary.

Michalek pushed San Jose's lead to 2-0 at 7:33 of the second period when he scored while the Sharks were killing a penalty.

Calgary used four forwards on the power play, but the move backfired when Alex Tanguay mishandled the puck at the Sharks blue line, allowing Michalek to break away down the wing.

As Dion Phaneuf came across in pursuit, Michalek fired a shot that goalkeeper Miikka Kiprusoff stopped, but he kicked out the rebound right onto Michalek's stick.

Michalek fired the puck into the open side beyond Kiprusoff's outstretched pad.

Michalek added his second of the night and sixth of the season in the third period off a setup by Jeremy Roenick from behind the net.

Ryane Clowe and Steve Bernier also scored for San Jose (5-3-1), which began a four-game road trip that continues on Friday in Detroit.

Canadiens 6, Bruins 1

At Montreal, Chris Higgins and Alex Kovalev scored Montreal's first two goals off faceoffs and Cristobal Huet made 31 saves to beat Boston.

Steve Begin, Patrice Brisebois, Mikhail Grabovski and Andrei Markov also scored for Montreal, which snapped Boston's four-game winning streak.

Bryan Smolinski, who played his 1,000th NHL regular-season game, set up Grabovski's first career goal with a pass on a 2-on-1 that put the Canadiens up 5-1 midway through the third.

Dennis Wideman scored his first of the season earlier in the period for the Bruins (5-3).

Kovalev, who played his 999th NHL regular-season game, also had an assist. Saku Koivu and Tomas Plekanec each had two assists.
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