ST. PAUL, Minn. — Andrei Markov scored the winner early in the second period with a one-timer from the right circle on a 5-on-3 power play.
Predators 3, Oilers 1
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Shea Weber, who was a few feet inside the blue line, scored the winner with a one-timer that beat Mathieu Garon to his glove side at 1:28 in the second.
Flyers 3, Islanders 2 (OT)
PHILADELPHIA — Jeff Carter hammered in a rebound from the front of the left circle on a power play with 24 seconds left in overtime.
Senators 2, Panthers 1
SUNRISE, Fla. — Dany Heatley and Chris Kelly scored third-period goals, with Kelly’s tally giving Ottawa the lead at 10:20 when he poked home a loose puck in the crease.
Lightning 5, Sabres 2
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Steven Stamkos scored his first two NHL goals, but it was his assist to Ryan Malone in the first period that was decisive.
Rangers 3, Thrashers 2
NEW YORK — Nikolai Zherdev gave New York a 2-1 lead with a power-play goal early in the third and then assisted Dan Girardi’s winner with 6:27 left.
Coyotes 4, Penguins 1
GLENDALE, Ariz. — Shane Doan scored twice and added an assist to lift the Phoenix Coyotes to a 4-1 victory on Thursday night over the Pittsburgh Penguins, who lost star Sidney Crosby to an undisclosed injury less than 5 minutes into the second period.
Olli Jokinen also scored, Steven Reinprecht and Zbynek Michalek each had two assists and Ilya Bryzgalov made 27 saves for the Coyotes, who have won two of their past three.
Phoenix’s 4-4 start is its best since opening the 2003-04 season 3-3-2.
Miroslav Satan scored his team-leading fifth goal for the Penguins, but sat out the final 10 minutes after picking up a misconduct penalty after arguing a hooking call.
Doan broke a 1-1 tie with 2:01 left in the second period when he took a pass from Reinprecht and scored into the open left side of the net.
Kevin Porter made it 3-1 with 5:01 remaining on his first NHL goal, taking a pass from Reinprecht and slipping the puck past Pittsburgh goalie Marc-Andre Fleury’s blocker.
After a scoreless first period, Jokinen gave the Coyotes a 1-0 lead at 7:53 of the second period when he scored off a backhand feed from Doan.
Satan tied the game at 8:30 of the period when Evgeni Malkin’s shot from the point ricocheted off the glass behind the Coyotes goal and landed in front of Bryzgalov for the tap-in power-play goal.
The goal came just 11 seconds into a power play and was the Penguins’ first road goal with the man-advantage in 15 tries this season.
Doan added an empty-net goal with 58.2 seconds left.
Notes:@ Jokinen has 31 points in 37 career games against Pittsburgh. … The Penguins had won three straight against the Coyotes. … Pittsburgh went more than 15 minutes before recording its first shot on goal and finished the first period with two.
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CITY — CALGARY, Alberta — Dion Phaneuf scored the tying goal then set up Mike Cammalleri’s go-ahead goal as Calgary scored twice on the power play in the second period to beat the Boston Bruins 3-2 on Thursday night for its fifth consecutive victory.
Phaneuf’s power-play goal at 2:29 of the second period ended Tim Thomas’ shutout streak at 152 minutes and 14 seconds.
Boston entered the game ranked 29th in penalty killing, but had killed off most of the penalty when Jarome Iginla’s cross-ice pass intended for Todd Bertuzzi deflected off a stick into the slot where it was slapped in by Phaneuf.
With help from four straight man advantages, Calgary continued to pressure Thomas throughout the second period eventually taking the lead at 18:37 when Cammalleri tipped in Phaneuf’s slap shot.
Dustin Boyd added his second of the season in the third period for Calgary. The Flames moved into a first-place tie with Minnesota atop the Northwest Division.
Patrice Bergeron and Blake Wheeler scored for Boston, which had its three-game winning streak snapped.
The third goal of the season for the rookie Wheeler got the Bruins within one with 7:44 remaining in the third period.
However, they could not get the tying goal behind Flames goalie Miikka Kiprusoff despite several great chances. Kiprusoff stopped a one-timer from David Krejci, jabbing out a pad to thwart Marc Savard as he cut across the front of the net, and smothering a shot from Chara stationed alone at the top of the crease.
Kiprusoff finished with 29 saves, including 13 in the final period.
After allowing four or more goals in each of his first four games, Kiprusoff has been brilliant during the five-game winning streak having given up only seven goals.
Leading 2-1, Boyd gave Calgary a bit of breathing room on a nice rush at 5:40 of the third period.
Boyd broke out of his own zone and charged down the right wing, tipped the puck past defenseman Mark Stuart, and from the faceoff circle wristed a high shot that got by Thomas.
Boston opened the scoring at 13:07 of the first period on a misplay by Kiprusoff.
While behind the net, Kiprusoff’s attempt to clear the puck to a defenseman instead was intercepted by Bergeron, who curled out front and wrapped in his second goal of the season.
Notes:@ Calgary C Wayne Primeau played in his 700th NHL game while D Robyn Regehr appeared in career game No. 600. Primeau is on his sixth NHL team while all of Regehr’s games have come with Calgary. … Kiprusoff and New Jersey’s Martin Brodeur are the only goalies remaining that have played every minute of their team’s games. … Calgary C Matthew Lombardi (shoulder) remains sidelined.
He’s missed three games and has yet to resume skating. …
Calgary’s last five-game winning streak was Dec. 29-Jan. 5 of last season. That streak came on the heels of a six-game winning streak Dec. 9-18.
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CITY — ST. LOUIS — Carolina goalie Cam Ward stopped 19 shots and Tuomo Ruutu scored in the third period, helping the Hurricanes to a 1-0 victory Thursday over the St. Louis Blues.
On the power play, Ruutu deflected a slap shot by Eric Staal from just inside the left circle for the only goal at 9:41. The puck trickled through the pads of goalie Chris Mason, who was playing for the first time since he had emergency appendectomy surgery Oct. 16.
Carolina took advantage while Paul Kariya was off the ice for a hooking penalty. It was the seventh power-play opportunity for the Hurricanes.
The Blues entered the game with the top-ranked power-play in the NHL but St. Louis had just three chances, including two in the third period.
It was the second time in the last three games St. Louis has been shut out.
It was a listless first two periods by both clubs. The Blues didn’t get a shot on goal until 11:12 of the first period. Carolina had just two shots in that span. St. Louis didn’t get its 10th shot until 3:17 of the third period when Andy McDonald was thwarted by Ward.
The Blues had not lost at home to Carolina since the 1999-2000 season. In the last 20 years, the Hurricanes franchise won just three games, going 3-11-2-1 in St. Louis before the victory.
Ward, a No. 1 draft pick in 2002, didn’t have much to do until the third period, when the Blues had 10 shots on goal. He earned his seventh career shutout in the victory.
Mason made 28 saves for the Blues.
Notes: C Eric Brewer played his 200th game for the Blues. … This was the last of a six-game road trip for the Hurricanes, who went 3-1-2. … Carolina played without F Brandon Sutter (concussion), D Joni Pitkanen (knee), D Frantisek Kaberle (leg), F Scott Walker (hand) and F Justin Williams (Achilles’ tendon). … Carolina D Anton Babchuk skated in his 100th career game.
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