In the hunt: Wild defenseman Clayton Stoner, left, vies for the puck against the Ducks' Saku Koivu on Sunday in Anaheim, California. The Wild won 5-3. AP PHOTONick Johnson scored the go-ahead goal with 5:31 left in the third period, and Casey Wellman and Pierre-Marc Bouchard scored 32 seconds apart in the second period, leading the Wild to a 5-3 victory over the Ducks on Sunday night.This was the third straight road game for Minnesota in which it overcame a two-goal deficit to win. It also was the 11th time this season that Minnesota has won when its opponent scored first, the most in the NHL. The victory ended a streak of 14 straight meetings between the clubs at Honda Center in which the team that scored first won."We have a group of guys in there that are not going to quit, they're not going to give up and look for excuses," rookie coach Mike Yeo said. "One thing we can really credit our success with is that we try not to get wrapped up in the score. We just know that it's about the next shift, going out and playing our game. All it takes is one play to get us right back in there."Josh Harding, who took over in net for an injured Niklas Backstrom after the first period of Minnesota's 4-2 win over New Jersey on Friday night and stopped all 22 shots he faced, made 24 saves against the Ducks in his first start since Nov. 25 while rookie Matt Hackett served as his backup.Dany Heatley scored a power-play goal and Kyle Clutterbuck added a short-handed empty-netter with 10.2 seconds left for Minnesota in the opener of a five-game trip. Matt Cullen had three assists for Minnesota against his former club.Avalanche 4, Red Wings 2In Denver, Ryan O'Reilly had two goals, Semyon Varlamov made 27 saves and Colorado beat Detroit to end the Red Wings' winning streak at seven.Paul Stastny and T.J. Galiardi also scored, and Gabriel Landeskog added two assists to help Colorado win its third straight. Henrik Zetterberg and Johan Franzen scored for Detroit, and Ty Conklin made 31 saves.Galiardi got the winner while Colorado killed off Ryan Wilson's minor penalty. Landeskog carried the puck into the Detroit zone, dropped it to the trailing Galiardi and he beat Conklin with a slap shot from the top of the circle with 10:38 left. It was Colorado's fourth short-handed goal of the season.Detroit pulled Conklin for an extra skater with a minute left and O'Reilly scored into the empty net with 34 seconds left.Canucks 5, Flames 1In Vancouver, Roberto Luongo made 21 saves, Chris Higgins and David Booth each had a goal and two assists and the Canucks beat Calgary for their sixth victory in seven games.Daniel Sedin and Kevin Bieksa had power-play goals and Jannik Hansen also scored to help Vancouver rebound from a 6-5 home loss to Nashville on Thursday.Alex Tanguay scored for Calgary, coming off a 5-3 victory in Edmonton on Saturday night.
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Wild storm back to edge Ducks in third period
ANAHEIM, California — The Minnesota Wild pulled off another rally on the road. The penalty-prone Anaheim Ducks were kicking themselves again after blowing another early lead and watching the visiting team take the game away from them.In the hunt: Wild defenseman Clayton Stoner, left, vies for the puck against the Ducks' Saku Koivu on Sunday in Anaheim, California. The Wild won 5-3. AP PHOTONick Johnson scored the go-ahead goal with 5:31 left in the third period, and Casey Wellman and Pierre-Marc Bouchard scored 32 seconds apart in the second period, leading the Wild to a 5-3 victory over the Ducks on Sunday night.This was the third straight road game for Minnesota in which it overcame a two-goal deficit to win. It also was the 11th time this season that Minnesota has won when its opponent scored first, the most in the NHL. The victory ended a streak of 14 straight meetings between the clubs at Honda Center in which the team that scored first won."We have a group of guys in there that are not going to quit, they're not going to give up and look for excuses," rookie coach Mike Yeo said. "One thing we can really credit our success with is that we try not to get wrapped up in the score. We just know that it's about the next shift, going out and playing our game. All it takes is one play to get us right back in there."Josh Harding, who took over in net for an injured Niklas Backstrom after the first period of Minnesota's 4-2 win over New Jersey on Friday night and stopped all 22 shots he faced, made 24 saves against the Ducks in his first start since Nov. 25 while rookie Matt Hackett served as his backup.Dany Heatley scored a power-play goal and Kyle Clutterbuck added a short-handed empty-netter with 10.2 seconds left for Minnesota in the opener of a five-game trip. Matt Cullen had three assists for Minnesota against his former club.Avalanche 4, Red Wings 2In Denver, Ryan O'Reilly had two goals, Semyon Varlamov made 27 saves and Colorado beat Detroit to end the Red Wings' winning streak at seven.Paul Stastny and T.J. Galiardi also scored, and Gabriel Landeskog added two assists to help Colorado win its third straight. Henrik Zetterberg and Johan Franzen scored for Detroit, and Ty Conklin made 31 saves.Galiardi got the winner while Colorado killed off Ryan Wilson's minor penalty. Landeskog carried the puck into the Detroit zone, dropped it to the trailing Galiardi and he beat Conklin with a slap shot from the top of the circle with 10:38 left. It was Colorado's fourth short-handed goal of the season.Detroit pulled Conklin for an extra skater with a minute left and O'Reilly scored into the empty net with 34 seconds left.Canucks 5, Flames 1In Vancouver, Roberto Luongo made 21 saves, Chris Higgins and David Booth each had a goal and two assists and the Canucks beat Calgary for their sixth victory in seven games.Daniel Sedin and Kevin Bieksa had power-play goals and Jannik Hansen also scored to help Vancouver rebound from a 6-5 home loss to Nashville on Thursday.Alex Tanguay scored for Calgary, coming off a 5-3 victory in Edmonton on Saturday night.
In the hunt: Wild defenseman Clayton Stoner, left, vies for the puck against the Ducks' Saku Koivu on Sunday in Anaheim, California. The Wild won 5-3. AP PHOTONick Johnson scored the go-ahead goal with 5:31 left in the third period, and Casey Wellman and Pierre-Marc Bouchard scored 32 seconds apart in the second period, leading the Wild to a 5-3 victory over the Ducks on Sunday night.This was the third straight road game for Minnesota in which it overcame a two-goal deficit to win. It also was the 11th time this season that Minnesota has won when its opponent scored first, the most in the NHL. The victory ended a streak of 14 straight meetings between the clubs at Honda Center in which the team that scored first won."We have a group of guys in there that are not going to quit, they're not going to give up and look for excuses," rookie coach Mike Yeo said. "One thing we can really credit our success with is that we try not to get wrapped up in the score. We just know that it's about the next shift, going out and playing our game. All it takes is one play to get us right back in there."Josh Harding, who took over in net for an injured Niklas Backstrom after the first period of Minnesota's 4-2 win over New Jersey on Friday night and stopped all 22 shots he faced, made 24 saves against the Ducks in his first start since Nov. 25 while rookie Matt Hackett served as his backup.Dany Heatley scored a power-play goal and Kyle Clutterbuck added a short-handed empty-netter with 10.2 seconds left for Minnesota in the opener of a five-game trip. Matt Cullen had three assists for Minnesota against his former club.Avalanche 4, Red Wings 2In Denver, Ryan O'Reilly had two goals, Semyon Varlamov made 27 saves and Colorado beat Detroit to end the Red Wings' winning streak at seven.Paul Stastny and T.J. Galiardi also scored, and Gabriel Landeskog added two assists to help Colorado win its third straight. Henrik Zetterberg and Johan Franzen scored for Detroit, and Ty Conklin made 31 saves.Galiardi got the winner while Colorado killed off Ryan Wilson's minor penalty. Landeskog carried the puck into the Detroit zone, dropped it to the trailing Galiardi and he beat Conklin with a slap shot from the top of the circle with 10:38 left. It was Colorado's fourth short-handed goal of the season.Detroit pulled Conklin for an extra skater with a minute left and O'Reilly scored into the empty net with 34 seconds left.Canucks 5, Flames 1In Vancouver, Roberto Luongo made 21 saves, Chris Higgins and David Booth each had a goal and two assists and the Canucks beat Calgary for their sixth victory in seven games.Daniel Sedin and Kevin Bieksa had power-play goals and Jannik Hansen also scored to help Vancouver rebound from a 6-5 home loss to Nashville on Thursday.Alex Tanguay scored for Calgary, coming off a 5-3 victory in Edmonton on Saturday night.
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