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Bruins beat Canadiens, avoid 3rd straight shutout

Saturday, November 7, 2009
AP


BOSTON -- Patrice Bergeron scored with 52 seconds left in regulation to help the Bruins avoid a historic third straight shutout, before Michael Cammalleri scored in the shootout to give the Montreal Canadiens a 2-1 victory over Boston on Thursday.

Boston had not scored in 192 minutes, 6 seconds, dating to Vladimir Sobotka's goal at 7:02 of the third period against Edmonton on Saturday. The Bruins had not been shut out in three straight games since they scored just once over five games from Feb. 2-14, 1929.

In the 700th game between the archrivals, Carey Price stopped 42 Boston shots for his first win in more than a month.

Kings 5, Penguins 2 At Los Angeles, Jarrett Stoll scored the go-ahead goal with 7:51 to play, as Los Angeles roared from behind with a four-goal third period to beat Pittsburgh.

Jonathan Quick made 21 saves in a standout performance for the Kings, who ended the Penguins' season-opening, seven-game road winning streak.

NHL scoring leader Anze Kopitar's second goal tied it early in the third for the Kings, who improved to 6-0-2 in their last eight games for the club's longest points streak since November 2000.

Los Angeles took charge late after two frustrating periods against the defending champions. Michal Handzus scored on a rebound just 23 seconds after Stoll's one-timer on a clever pass from captain Dustin Brown.

Blue Jackets 4, Thrashers 3 At Atlanta, Raffi Torres scored two second-period goals as Columbus held off Atlanta.

The Thrashers, coming off road wins at Ottawa and Montreal, lost for the fourth time in five home games.

The Blue Jackets took a 2-0 lead in the first period when Jakub Voracek and Derick Brassard each had a goal and an assist, and Columbus never trailed.

Pavel Kubina's power-play goal 2:06 into the third period cut Atlanta's deficit to 4-3. Bryan Little and Tobias Enstrom scored in the second. Enstrom's goal was his first this season.

Red Wings 2, Sharks 1, SO At Detroit, Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg scored in the shootout as Detroit snapped San Jose's six-game winning streak.

Zetterberg also had a goal in regulation, and Chris Osgood made 33 saves for Detroit.

Logan Couture scored his first NHL goal for San Jose. Evgeni Nabokov stopped 35 shots.

Canucks 5, Wild 2 At St. Paul, Minnesota, Darcy Hordichuk and newly signed Matt Pettinger each scored their first goals of the season, forming an unlikely pair to lead short-handed Vancouver past Minnesota.

Hordichuk scored his first goal in 50 games. Pettinger was signed off the street on Monday to bolster a depleted roster.

Mason Raymond and Henrik Sedin also scored for the Canucks, who have won three in a row despite missing seven players with injuries. Alex Burrows added an empty-net goal.

Kyle Brodziak scored twice for the Wild. Niklas Backstrom gave up four goals on 17 shots and was pulled by new Wild coach Todd Richards for the first time.

Vancouver's Andrew Raycroft made 28 saves.

Senators 3, Lightning 2, OT At Ottawa, Jason Spezza scored a power-play goal 4:17 into overtime to lift Ottawa over Tampa Bay.

Spezza, sidelined for two games because of back pain, drove a slap shot past Antero Niittymaki after Tampa Bay's Mattias Ohlund was sent off for holding 3 minutes into overtime. Spezza also assisted on Daniel Alfredsson's first-period goal.

Mike Fisher also scored for Ottawa and Pascal Leclaire made 18 saves.

Alex Tanguay and Steven Stamkos scored power-play goals for Tampa Bay. Niittymaki stopped 26 shots in his second start in a row.

Coyotes 3, Blackhawks 1 At Glendale, Arizona, Peter Mueller scored his first goal of the season and Martin Hanzal added a goal and an assist as Phoenix beat Chicago.

Scottie Upshall also scored, and Ilya Bryzgalov made 31 saves for the Coyotes, who snapped a two-game losing streak.

Kris Versteeg had a short-handed goal for the Blackhawks, who have lost two of three.

Flames 2, Blues 1, OT At St. Louis, Dion Phaneuf's goal 2:50 into overtime gave the Calgary a victory against St. Louis.

Phaneuf fired a shot past Chris Mason, who made 27 straight saves after giving up an early goal to Jarome Iginla. Phaneuf, a defenseman, has six goals this season. Miikka Kiprusoff stopped 30 shots.

Lars Eller scored the lone Blues goal while playing in his first NHL game.

Rangers 4, Oilers 2 At Edmonton, Alberta, Ales Kotalik had a goal and two assists as the New York Rangers beat Edmonton.

Marian Gaborik, Christopher Higgins and Ryan Callahan also scored for the Rangers, who had won only two of their previous eight games.

Lubomir Visnovsky and Mike Comrie had goals for Edmonton.

Ducks 4, Predators 0 At Anaheim, California, Jonas Hiller made 40 saves to earn his fifth NHL shutout and Teemu Selanne scored two goals to overtake Hall of Famer Jean Beliveau on the career points list as Anaheim beat short-handed Nashville.

The Ducks had won only once in seven games. Selanne increased his career point total to 1,221, breaking a tie with Beliveau for 38th place. Selanne has played in 1,146 regular-season games, 21 more than Beliveau.

Todd Marchant scored for Anaheim, snapping his 13-game point drought from the start of the season. Bobby Ryan also had a goal, and Saku Koivu and Ryan Getzlaf each had two assists.

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