Sharks too much for young Canucks
SAN JOSE, California — Marcus Sorensen snapped a second-period tie with his first NHL goal and the San Jose Sharks beat the Vancouver Canucks 3-1 on Thursday night, ending a six-game home losing streak to their Pacific Division rivals.
Mikkel Boedker and Logan Couture also scored for the Sharks, who have won four of five overall and earned at least a point in eight straight.
Bo Horvat scored for the Canucks, who have lost three in a row and five of six.
Aaron Dell made 17 saves to improve to 8-3-1 this season. Ryan Miller stopped 29 shots for the Canucks.
The road team had won the previous 12 games between the teams.
Islanders 5, Stars 1
DALLAS — Ryan Strome had a goal and two assists, and the New York Islanders rallied with four straight goals to beat the Dallas Stars 5-4 on Thursday night.
Strome scored the game’s first goal, then assisted on Andrew Ladd’s second-period goal and Dennis Seidenberg’s tiebreaker at 7:46 of the third.
The Islanders, in a tight race for the second wild card in the Eastern Conference, have won four of five and are 3-1 on a ninegame road trip. They were 7-13-4 on the road when the trip began.
Nick Leddy and Nikolay Kulemin also scored in the third for New York. The Islanders outshot Dallas 14-7 in the period.
Stars captain Jamie Benn scored on the power play in the first period and short-handed in the third. Radek Faksa and Jason Spezza had second-period goals that gave Dallas a 3-1 lead.
Thomas Greiss made 22 saves for New York, while Antti Niemi stopped 28 shots for Dallas.
Spezza had a goal and an assist. Tyler Seguin assisted on the Stars’ first two goals
Strome’s goal came when he skated on a breakaway from his own end to just in front of Niemi and slipped a short-range wrist shot between the goalie’s legs at 9:29 of the first period.
Benn tied it on the last second of a power play, taking a pass from Seguin in the slot to score just eight seconds before the period ended.
Faksa and Spezza scored from almost the same spot, low in the left faceoff circle, to give Dallas a 3-1 lead 10:14 into the second period.
Ladd pulled the Islanders within a goal at 14:49. Strome hit the right post with a shot, and Ladd was there to put in the rebound.
Leddy tied the game 3-all just 25 seconds into the third period. Niemi deflected Leddy’s slap shot from the point to the right off the boards behind the net. The puck bounced off Niemi’s left skate and back into the net.
Seidenberg scored on another shot from the blue line, and Kulemin took a pass in close from Leddy to beat Niemi for a 5-3 lead with 10:31 left.
Rangers 2, Bruins 1
BOSTON — Henrik Lundqvist made 32 saves on his 35th birthday and the New York Rangers got thirdperiod goals from Pavel Buchnevich and Oscar Lindberg to beat the Boston Bruins 2-1.
New York, which has beaten Boston five straight times, outscored the Bruins 12-5 while sweeping the season series.
Brad Marchand scored his team-leading 29th goal for the Bruins.