PREDATORS
4, CHICAGO 3 OT
CHICAGO -- Filip
Forsberg scored a minute into overtime for his second goal of
the game, and the Nashville
Predators beat the Chicago
Blackhawks 4-3 on Wednesday night for their third straight
victory.
Colton
Sissons and Viktor
Arvidsson also scored to help the Predators improve to 3-0-1 on
a six-game trip. Ryan Johansen and Mattias
Ekholm each had two assists, and Pekka Rinne made
28 saves.
Nashville had a 3-2 lead before Patrick Kane flipped
a pass into the middle to Artem
Anisimov, who slid a shot under Rinne with 2:21 left in regulation.
Anisimov stopped a seven-game drought with his eighth of the season.
But Forsberg stepped up in overtime, driving to the net and
flipping a shot over Collin Delia's
left shoulder for his 16th of the season. Forsberg just returned to the
Predators' lineup on Monday after missing 17 games with a hand injury.
Chicago lost for the fourth time in five games. Alex
DeBrincat and Jonathan
Toews also scored for the Blackhawks, and Kane had two assists.
FLAMES 5, AVALANCHE 3
CALGARY, Alberta -- Mark Giordano had
three assists and Calgary kept on rolling with a victory over Colorado.
Mikael
Backlund, Mark
Jankowski, Elias
Lindholm, Michael
Frolik and Matthew
Tkachuk, into an empty net, scored for Calgary (28-13-4), which is
6-1-1 in its last eight games. The Flames have a two-point lead over Vegas atop
the Pacific Division.
Johnny
Gaudreau added two assists to extend his point streak to six
games.
Giordano has 303 career assists, moving him past Joe
Nieuwendyk into fifth on the franchise list.
Nathan
MacKinnon ran his point streak to eight games with a goal for
Colorado. Erik Johnson
and Mikko
Rantanen also scored as the slumping Avalanche dropped to 1-6-2
in their last nine games.
Calgary snapped a 2-all tie at 12:57 of the second period on
Lindholm's power-play goal.
SENATORS 2, DUCKS 1, OT
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Colin White scored
at 1:34 of overtime and Ottawa snapped an eight-game losing streak by rallying
past reeling Anaheim.
White took a pass from Mark Stone near
the net and slid the puck past John Gibson for
his 11th goal of the season. It was a franchise-record ninth straight loss for
the Ducks, surpassing an eight-game skid in October 1996.
Bobby Ryan also
scored for the Senators, and Anders
Nilsson stopped 32 shots.
Ryan tied it at 9:23 of the third period. It was his third
goal and eighth point in 11 games against his former team, which drafted him
second overall in 2005. The Senators' right wing also extended his point streak
to five games (two goals, four assists).
Jakob
Silfverberg had Anaheim's goal, and Gibson made 28 saves.
No comments:
Post a Comment