NHL Hockey News

The Minnesota Wild open a four-game road trip tonight in Colorado, where the club will battle the Avalanche at the Pepsi Center. via TheIndyChannel.com

- Defenceman Pavel Kubina has been knocked out of the Toronto Maple Leafs lineup indefinitely with a medial collateral ligament injury to his right knee.

Kubina was injured during Toronto's 3-2 loss to the New York Rangers on Saturday night.

The 30-year-old is in his second season with the Maple Leafs. He had one goal and 11 points in 18 games this season. Read more

NHL rookie scoring leader Patrick Kane had a power-play goal and an assist to help the Chicago Blackhawks beat Detroit 3-2 on Sunday night, ending the Red Wings' record-tying winning streak at nine games.

Yanic Perreault and rookie Jonathan Toews also scored, and Jason Williams and Robert Lang each had two assists for the Blackhawks in their third straight victory and third of the season over Detroit.

Jiri Hudler and Nicklas Lidstrom scored for the Red Wings, 13-3-1 overall. Anaheim is the only other team to have beaten Detroit so far. Read more

Chris Mason stopped all three shootout attempts and Martin Erat scored the only goal in the tiebreaker to lift the Nashville Predators over the Columbus Blue Jackets 4-3 Saturday night.

Erat, who beat Fredrik Norrena high, was the second shooter for Nashville.

Radek Bonk gave the Predators a 1-0 lead with a power-play goal 9:05 into the first period. Dan Hamhuis took a shot, and Bonk took control of the long rebound in the slot and beat Norrena low to his glove side with a backhander. Read more

Anze Kopitar scored during Los Angeles' five-goal rally in the third period against Dallas goalie Marty Turco, then connected again 2:34 into overtime to give the Kings an improbable 6-5 victory over the Stars on Saturday night.

Playing their first game in seven days, the Kings seemed out of the game after Jeff Halpern's goal gave Dallas a 4-0 cushion with 2:12 left in the second period. Turco stopped the first 27 shots he faced, then the Stars collapsed. The Stars had won 34 consecutive games in which they had a lead of more than one goal. Read more

Kimmo Timonen had a goal and three assists, and the Philadelphia Flyers took advantage on four power plays in beating the Pittsburgh Penguins 5-2 on Saturday night.

Mike Knuble, Joffrey Lupul, Danny Briere, and Scott Hartnell also scored for the Flyers, who built a 3-0 lead in the first 26 minutes.

Hartnell's goal, his first with the Flyers, was scored into an empty-netter. Mike Richards added three assists.

Evgeni Malkin and Sergei Gonchar scored for Pittsburgh, which dropped its third straight game. It is the Penguins' worst pointless streak since they lost three in a row last December. Read more

Miroslav Satan scored his third straight winning goal and the New York Islanders denied Devils goalie Martin Brodeur his 500th NHL victory with a 2-1 win over New Jersey on Saturday night.

Josef Vasicek also scored for the Islanders, who won their fourth in a row and finished a six-game homestand with five wins. Rick DiPietro turned aside 19 shots for his eighth win this season, and 98th in the NHL. He made a huge stick save on Brian Gionta with 25 seconds left to preserve the win.

Dainius Zubrus had the only goal for the Devils, 1-2-1 in their last four. Brodeur stopped 20 shots. Read more

Rookie Patrick Kane and Jim Vandermeer scored power-play goals and the Chicago Blackhawks beat the St. Louis Blues 4-2 on Friday night.

Rene Bourque scored short-handed and Yanic Perreault added an empty-net goal for Chicago. Goalie Patrick Lalime, making consecutive starts for the first time this season, blocked 23 shots to help the Blackhawks win their second straight.

Steve Wagner had a power-play goal and an assist for the Blues, who lost their third straight. St. Louis' David Perron also scored a power-play goal. Read more

Henrik Zetterberg scored his 13th goal of the season with 1:28 left to extend his season-opening points streak to 16 games, the longest in team history. via SI.com

Viktor Kozlov scored once and set up two goals in a second-period outburst that lifted the struggling Washington Capitals to a 4-1 victory over the Ottawa Senators on Thursday night.

Wojtek Wolski and Marek Svatos scored shootout goals to lead the Colorado Avalanche to a 4-3 win over Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday night. via NJ.com

Mike Modano became the highest-scoring American in NHL history the same way he does most everything else on ice _ very quickly.

Modano scored two goals in the first 4:24 to surpass Phil Housley's career record for points by a U.S.-born player, and the Dallas Stars beat the San Jose Sharks 3-1 Wednesday night.

Modano, the 37-year-old Michigan native who has been the star of Stars for nearly two decades in Minnesota and Dallas, tied the mark with a long slap shot past Evgeni Nabokov just 2:19 in. The speedy center added a short-handed goal moments later, earning grudging applause from the Shark Tank crowd for the longtime foe's latest remarkable feat. Read more

The Colorado Avalanche will wrap what has so far been a successful homestand tonight when they welcome the fellow Northwest Division resident Edmonton Oilers to the Pepsi Center. via WIVT/WBGH Newschannel34

Sabres centers Tim Connolly and Adam Mair are out indefinitely, marking the latest blow to a once-dominant team that has struggled to start the season.

Coach Lindy Ruff said Tuesday that both will be out after Connolly strained his abdomen and Mair sprained his right ankle in a 2-0 loss at Montreal a day earlier. Ruff said Connolly would 'miss some time,' but was more concerned about Mair's injury, saying the gritty fourth-line player will be out for weeks.

Mair did not return after he was hurt in the second period. Connolly continued playing after he was hurt early in the third period, but Ruff said the injury worsened after the team returned home. Read more

Eric Lindros is expected to announce his retirement Thursday after 13 seasons in the NHL, according to a report. via The Morning Call

The lawyer for Steve Moore has rejected a $350,000 offer to settle the player's $15-million lawsuit against Todd Bertuzzi and the former parent company of the Vancouver Canucks, according to recently filed ... via CANOE

- The Ottawa Senators lead all teams with six players on the ballot for the 2008 NHL all-star game.

Ottawa forwards Dany Heatley, Jason Spezza and Daniel Alfredsson are joined by goaltender Ray Emery and defencemen Chris Phillips and Wade Redden. The Senators lead the NHL's overall standings.

The all-star game will be played Jan. 27 at Phillips Arena in Atlanta. The starting lineup for each conference is determined by the fans, with voting to begin Nov. 13.

For the second straight year, fan balloting will be entirely digital. Last year, an Internet campaign nearly saw Vancouver Canucks defenceman Rory Fitzpatrick voted a starter for the Western Conference as a write-in candidate. Read more

David Booth scored with 1:19 left in the third period and the Florida Panthers kept Tampa Bay winless on the road with a 4-3 victory Monday night.

The Lightning, who have lost six in a row overall, are off to a franchise-worst 0-7 start on the road.

Olli Jokinen, Ville Peltonen and Steve Montador also scored for the Panthers, who have won 11 of the past 13 meetings at the BankAtlantic Center. Jokinen also had two assists.

Martin St. Louis, Brad Lukowich and Michel Ouellet scored for the Lightning. Vincent Lecavalier had two assists. Read more

Marty Turco recorded his 31st career shutout, Jere Lehtinen added a goal and two assists and the Dallas Stars routed the Ducks, 5-0, tonight to snap a three-game losing streak. via Los Angeles Times

Cristobal Huet made 29 saves for his first shutout in nearly a year and Tomas Plekanec scored in the second period to send the Montreal Canadiens on to a 2-0 win over the Buffalo Sabres on Monday night.

Huet stopped 16 shots in the first period on his way to his 14th career shutout. It was his first since Nov. 28 when he beat Florida 1-0 in a shootout.

Plekanec scored his fourth goal of the season on a 2-on-1 at 13:04 of the second.

The Canadiens, who have won six of eight (6-1-1), were outshot 9-1 in the third period before Bryan Smolinski scored into an empty net with 21.8 seconds remaining. Read more