NHL Roundup: Sharks stretch their winning streak to 6

By: JournalNow Staff | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: November 05, 2009

Sharks 3, Blue Jackets 2 (SO): Defenseman Dan Boyle scored the lone goal in a shootout, and Evgeni Nabokov stopped all three Columbus shooters to give visiting San Jose its sixth straight win and eighth in its last nine games.
Nabokov made 26 saves in regulation and overtime, then stopped attempts by Nikita Filatov, Anton Stralman and Rick Nash in the tiebreaker to improve to 10-3-1.
Joe Thornton scored and Dany Heatley added a power-play goal for San Jose.
Nash had a power-play goal and Jason Chimera also scored for the Blue Jackets.

Sabres 3, Islanders 0: Ryan Miller made 24 saves for his second shutout of the season and 14th overall, and Thomas Vanek had a goal and assist for Buffalo.
Derek Roy and Paul Gaustad also scored to help the Sabres (9-2-1) rebound from a 5-0 loss to the Islanders on Saturday on Long Island.
Former Sabres goalie Martin Biron made 36 saves for the visiting Islanders (5-5-5), who had their winning streak snapped at four.
The Sabres were successful on 39 of 47 faceoffs.

Devils 3, Capitals 2: Niclas Bergfors scored power-play goals 3:13 apart in the third period and New Jersey beat visiting Washington, which played without Alex Ovechkin.
Brian Rolston also scored, and Martin Brodeur made 26 saves for New Jersey. Tyler Sloan and Tomas Fleischmann scored for Washington.
Ovechkin, the NHL MVP the past two seasons, suffered an upper-body strain Sunday against Columbus. He missed the fifth game of his five-season NHL career, his third caused by injury. Washington is 1-4 without him.

Flames 3, Stars 2 (OT): Jarome Iginla scored on a power play at 1:25 of overtime to give visiting Calgary a comeback victory over Dallas last night.
Daymond Langkow tied it for the Flames with 49 seconds left in regulation and goalie Curtis McElhinney on the bench for an extra attacker. Iginla passed in front to Langkow, who backhanded the puck past Marty Turco.
Dallas drew a delay of game penalty at 1:06 of overtime, and the Flames needed only 19 seconds to capitalize when Iginla — who also scored in the second period — fired a shot from the left point that got past a screened Turco.
Calgary's Jay Bouwmeester played in his 355th consecutive game, the league's longest active streak.

Avalanche 4, Coyotes 1: Milan Hejduk had two goals and an assist, and Peter Budaj — recovered from swine flu — stopped 28 shots in his first start of the season, leading Colorado over visiting Phoenix last night.
Marek Svatos also scored a goal, David Jones added an empty-netter, and Paul Stastny had with three assists. The Avalanche snapped a two-game skid to remain on top of the Western Conference standings and tie Pittsburgh for the overall lead.
Budaj was brilliant in goal, allowing only Ed Jovanovski's power-play goal midway through the third period.