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DENVER – Teemu Selanne wasn’t in the mood to celebrate his latest accomplishment Monday night, passing fellow Finn and childhood idol Jari Kurri to move into sole possession of 19th place on the NHL’s all-time scoring list. The Anaheim Ducks’ seemingly ageless right wing – he’s 41 and in his 20th NHL season – collected his 1,399th career point with a power-play goal in the third period in a 3-2 overtime loss to the Colorado Avalanche at the Pepsi Center. Right Wing – ANA GOALS: 22 | ASST: 37 | PTS: 59SOG: 188 | +/-: 7 But Selanne, who had [...]

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FRISCO, Texas — The Dallas Stars currently are on a 10-game point streak (9-0-1), a stretch where the lone game where they didn’t get the full two points was Feb. 29 in a 4-3 shootout loss to the Penguins, a team on a strong run of their own. While there have been many reasons for the Stars’ recent surge to the top of the Pacific Division standings, the stellar play of starting goaltender Kari Lehtonen has been a major factor. During this streak, the 28-year-old netminder has started eight of the 10 games, going 7-0-1 with a 1.46 goals-against-average, a [...]

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The Jets’ playoff chances took two big blows on Sunday. First, the Washington Capitals extended their eighth-place lead on the Jets to four points with a 2-0 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs. The Capitals and Jets, who have two games remaining against one another, both have 13 regular-season contests to go. If that isn’t bad enough for the Jets and their fans, any thoughts of catching Florida for first place in the Southeast Division are probably now out the window after the Panthers beat the Carolina Hurricanes by the same 2-0 score on Sunday. The Panthers are five points [...]

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It’s been a dogfight all season long for the Calgary Flames, but they’ll wake up Monday morning in playoff position in the Western Conference. Jarome Iginla had a goal and an assist to lead his club to a huge 4-3 victory against the Minnesota Wild at the Xcel Energy Center on Sunday. The win gives the Flames 76 points, good enough for eighth in the West thanks to the fact that they have two more regulation victories than ninth-place Los Angeles. “It’s huge for us. We’ve been battling, and we’ve been kind of nipping at the heels here for a [...]

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The highest-scoring scholastic player in Minnesota for 2011-12, Lakeville South’s Justin Kloos, was named the 2012 Mr. Hockey Award recipient during a ceremony at the RiverCentre in St. Paul, Minn Sunday. According to mnhockeyhub.com, Kloos finished with the 10th-highest point total in state history with 103 points, including 41 goals and 62 assists, in 31 games for the Cougars (21-9). The 5-foot-9, 177-pound Kloos, who notched a point in all but one game for Lakeville South this season, is committed to the University of Minnesota next fall. Following the announcement, Kloos called winning Mr. Hockey “a remarkable honor” to those [...]

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PITTSBURGH — The Boston Bruins will be the latest team to attempt to solve what is becoming a perplexing riddle whenever the Pittsburgh Penguins are next up on the schedule. Center – PIT GOALS: 22 | ASST: 15 | PTS: 37SOG: 112 | +/-: 8 How do you shut down a player best known for being a shutdown defender? With his size and strength, expansive wingspan and underrated skating ability, Jordan Staal has been a defensive force since breaking into the NHL with a rookie-record seven shorthanded goals as an 18-year-old in 2006-07. The 6-foot-4, 220-pounder immediately became a perfect [...]

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The Colorado Avalanche didn’t waste their second chance to move into the top eight in the Western Conference. The Avs led Edmonton 2-1 well past the midpoint of the third period on Saturday, only to have Taylor Hall tie the game with less than five minutes remaining. But neither team scored before regulation ended — and following a scoreless overtime, the Avs did what they do best: Win a shootout. Milan Hejduk and Peter Mueller scored in the tiebreaker to give Colorado a 3-2 win. The victory on gave the Avs 76 points and moved them past San Jose into [...]

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BOSTON – The 25 straight games he started while flaunting Atlas-like strength in carrying the Boston Bruins to the Stanley Cup championship at the end of last season are an indelible part of team history. If Tim Thomas is going to duplicate that massive effort this season, it appears he’s going to have to get used to a heavy workload a little earlier than he did before Boston’s drought-snapping run to the title. Bruins No. 1A goaltender Tuukka Rask recently went down with a groin injury that’s going to sideline him for at least six weeks, and recently-signed Marty Turco [...]

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