Boucher & Dowd Help Canucks Knock Down Reeling Stars 4-1
Reid Boucher and Nic Dowd are near the bottom of Vancouver's scoring leaderboard, but they combined to help the Canucks pull down the Stars on Sunday night.
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Reid Boucher and Nic Dowd are near the bottom of Vancouver's scoring leaderboard, but they combined to help the Canucks pull down the Stars on Sunday night.
Behind the mask is a mind filled with thoughts of what it takes to win a game. Then the next game, then the one after that. "There is no shut-off for a goaltender," retired goalie Brian Boucher said.
John Carlson's winner with five minutes remaining gave Washington a 4-3 victory over the Stars on Tuesday night to extend their lead atop the tight Metropolitan Division to four points.
Mitch Marner scored the winner as Toronto extended its franchise-record home winning streak to 11 games with a 6-5 victory over the Dallas Stars on Wednesday night.
Montreal defeated Dallas 4-2 on Tuesday night but the game went sour when Andrew Shaw hobbled off the ice after a helmet-to-helmet collision with former teammate Greg Pateryn.
The Penguins, who lost six of their previous seven against Dallas, have won 14 of their last 15 overall at home.
Dallas Stars center Martin Hanzal is set for back surgery that will end his injury-plagued season.
Pekka Rinne stopped 26 shots, Ryan Hartman scored at 5:33 of the third period and the Predators beat the Dallas Stars 2-0 Tuesday night for their franchise-record ninth straight victory.
Stars goalie Ben Bishop left because of a lower-body injury after making 12 saves in the first period. Lehtonen replaced Bishop and had 15 saves. Bishop is expected to miss at least two games.
With 41 seconds left in overtime, Cory Conacher broke away from Dallas' Jamie Benn and took a low shot that bounced off goalie Ben Bishop and went in to beat the Stars 5-4.
