Tomas Vokoun made 31 saves for his second straight shutout as the Florida Panthers extended the Carolina Hurricanes’ winless streak to 10 games with a 3-0 victory in the NHL on Wednesday.
Steven Reinprecht opened the scoring early in the third period, Cory Stillman added a power-play goal and an assist, while defenseman Bryan Allen scored an empty-net goal with 2 minutes, 1 second left.
SHARKS 3, BLUE JACKETS 2, SO
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In Columbus, Ohio, San Jose defenseman Dan Boyle scored the lone goal in a shootout and Evgeni Nabokov stopped all three Columbus shooters to give the Sharks their sixth straight win and eighth in their last nine games.
Nabokov made 26 saves in regulation and overtime, then stopped attempts by Nikita Filatov, Anton Stralman and Rick Nash in the tiebreaker.
SABRES 3, ISLANDERS 0
In Buffalo, New York, Ryan Miller made 24 saves for his second shutout of the season and 14th overall, while Thomas Vanek had a goal and assist to help Buffalo end New York’s four-game winning streak.
Derek Roy and Paul Gaustad also scored to help the Sabres rebound from a 5-0 loss to New York on Saturday.
DEVILS 3, CAPITALS 2
In Newark, New Jersey, Niclas Bergfors scored power-play goals 3 minutes, 13 seconds apart in the third period as New Jersey beat Alex Ovechkin-less Washington.
Brian Rolston also scored and Martin Brodeur made 26 saves for New Jersey. Tyler Sloan and Tomas Fleischmann scored for Washington.
Ovechkin, the NHL MVP for the past two seasons, sustained an upper-body strain on Sunday against Columbus.
FLAMES 3, STARS 2, OT
In Dallas, Jarome Iginla scored on a power-play at 1 minute, 25 seconds of overtime to give Calgary a comeback victory over Dallas.
Daymond Langkow tied it for the Flames with 49 seconds left in regulation with goalie Curtis McElhinney on the bench for an extra attacker.
Dallas drew a delay of game penalty at 1 minute, 9 seconds of overtime and the Flames needed only 16 seconds to capitalize when Iginla — who also scored in the second period — fired home. McElhinney, the backup to Miikka Kiprusoff, stopped Brenden Morrow on a second-period penalty shot and finished with 38 saves in his second start of the season.
AVALANCHE 4, COYOTES 1
In Denver, Colorado, Milan Hejduk had two goals and an assist, while Peter Budaj stopped 28 shots for Colorado in his first start of the season.
Marek Svatos also scored, David Jones added an empty-netter and Paul Stastny had three assists as Colorado improved to 5-0 at home. Budaj allowed only Ed Jovanovski’s power-play goal midway through the third.
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