Daniel Sedin and Markus Naslund scored power-play goals three minutes apart in the third period to end a late Columbus rally and send the Vancouver Canucks over the Blue Jackets 7-4 in the NHL on Monday.
Anson Carter and Josh Green scored in the first 3:42 and Todd Bertuzzi and Mattias Ohlund added power-play goals to give Vancouver a 4-0 cushion after the first period.
But Rick Nash scored midway through the second and Nikolai Zherdev and Rostislav Klesla scored 30 seconds apart early in the third to close the gap to one goal. That's when the Blue Jackets' bid to extend their franchise-record winning streak to six games ran into penalty trouble.
Sedin, Naslund and Trevor Linden added power-play goals, giving Vancouver five on 11 chances as the Canucks won for the fourth time in five games.
Marc Denis allowed all seven Vancouver goals despite sitting out the entire second period. He was yanked in favor of Pascal Leclaire, who stopped all 16 shots he faced but injured his back in the process. Denis went back in to start the third.
At the other end, Alex Auld finished with 29 saves, including two breakaways and one penalty-shot stop on Nash, who finally added his second goal during a 5-on-3 power play with 1:15 left.
Lightning 3, Islanders 2, OT
At Uniondale, New York, Martin St. Louis scored the tying goal with 1:12 left in regulation and then set up Vincent Lecavalier's breakaway winner in overtime that gave Tampa Bay a victory over New York.
Lecavalier deked goalie Rick DiPietro onto his back and beat him with 54.5 seconds showing on the clock.
Tampa Bay improved to 8-1-1 in its last 10 games and beat New York by one goal for the third time this season. The Lightning have won six straight against the Islanders, dating to a first-round playoff victory in 2004 during the Lightning's Stanley Cup run.
Fredrik Modin put the Lightning in front just 1:22 in and Sean Burke finished with 28 saves.
Stars 4, Predators 2
At Dallas, Bill Guerin scored his first goal in 19 games with less than a second remaining in the second period, finally converting a power-play chance for Dallas as the Stars beat Nashville in their last home game until next month.
The Stars were on their 10th power play when Guerin scored the tiebreaking goal with 0.9 seconds to go in the second. Janne Niinimaa, who missed the previous seven games with an ankle injury, Mike Modano and Stu Barnes also scored for Dallas, which matched Detroit at the top of the Western Conference with 77 points.
Oilers 6, Mighty Ducks 5, SO
At Edmonton, Alberta, Fernando Pisani scored the shootout winner and had a goal and an assist in regulation to lead Edmonton past Anaheim.
Pisani had the lone goal in the shootout, and Oilers goalie Mike Morrison improved to 5-0 in shootouts.
Ryan Smyth scored twice, while Marc-Andre Bergeron and Jaroslav Spacek also tallied for Edmonton, which scored two power-play goals and tied Calgary for second place in the Northwest Division.
Senators 5, Penguins 2
At Ottawa, Peter Schaefer had two goals and an assist, backup goalie Ray Emery got his first win in more than a month and Ottawa extended Pittsburgh's losing streak to six games.
Christoph Schubert, Zdeno Chara and Bryan Smolinski also scored for Ottawa, which had lost three of four, including a 2-1 shootout loss on Saturday in Buffalo.
Flames 4, Sharks 3
At San Jose, California, Miikka Kiprusoff made 28 saves against his former teammates, Robyn Regehr had a career-best three assists and Calgary snapped a three-game losing streak by beating slumping San Jose.
Daymond Langkow, Chuck Kobasew, Chris Simon and Matthew Lombardi scored for the Flames in their first regular-season victory in San Jose since January 2001. Calgary was 0-2-6 at the Shark Tank since, though the Flames won three straight in San Jose during the 2004 Western Conference finals.
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