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November 12

Langenbrunner, Parise power Devils

The Associated Press

NEWARK, N.J. — Jamie Langenbrunner and Zach Parise each had a goal and an assist while Martin Brodeur made 31 saves Wednesday and the New Jersey Devils extended their winning streak to six games with a 3-1 victory over the Anaheim Ducks.

David Clarkson also scored while Andy Greene had two assists for the Devils, winners of three straight at home after dropping their first three at the Prudential Center.

Corey Perry scored for the Ducks and Jonas Hiller made 22 saves.

New Jersey travels to Pittsburgh on Thursday night looking to go 9-0 on the road. The NHL record to start a season is 10-0 set by Buffalo in 2006.

Langenbrunner got the Devils going 38 seconds in, netting their fastest goal from the start of a game this season. Parise tipped the puck back to Greene at the point who flipped a shot on net that Langenbrunner deflected past Hiller.

Anaheim’s top line evened the score at 1 as Perry scored his team-leading 12th goal 2:25 into the second. Bobby Ryan circled behind the Devils’ net, trying for a wraparound stuff. Brodeur blocked the bid but could not control the puck. Ryan Getzlaf took a swipe before the puck squirted across the crease to Perry for the tap-in at the right side of the net.

Perry and Getzlaf both extended their scoring streaks to nine games.

Clarkson put the Devils up 2-1 at 12:52, eluding Anaheim defenseman James Wisniewski with a nifty deke before drilling a shot past Hiller from the slot.

New Jersey finished the period with a 3-1 lead as Parise, sprung by a pass from Langenbrunner, put in his own rebound on short-handed breakaway with 12.7 seconds left.

Down by two in the third, Anaheim tried to claw back. Brodeur made a glove stop on Teemu Selanne’s drive from the left circle about 7 minutes in, and shortly thereafter the Ducks got their fifth power play.

They failed to generate strong pressure with the man advantage, and the Devils did a good job of limiting the Ducks’ chances until Anaheim went on the power play with 3:44 left. Brodeur denied Getzlaf’s one-timer, and the Ducks were done.

Sabres 3, Oilers 1

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Ryan Miller made 28 saves to lift the Buffalo Sabres to a win over the Edmonton Oilers.

Drew Stafford, Steve Montador and Jochen Hecht scored for the Sabres (10-4-1), who snapped a two-game losing streak.

Tim Connolly also added a pair of assists in Buffalo’s fourth straight win over Edmonton.

Patrick O’Sullivan scored, and Nikolai Khabibulin made 23 saves for the Oilers (8-9-2), who have lost five of six.

Edmonton left winger Liam Reddox was knocked out when he was rammed headfirst into the boards by Clarke MacArthur late in the game.

Stafford opened the scoring with 4:29 left in the first period when he lifted a backhand from in tight over Khabibulin’s left shoulder for his team-leading fifth goal.

Buffalo made it 2-0 when Montador fired a slap shot from the right circle for his first goal of the season, scored at 7:34 of the second.

Kings 5, Hurricanes 2

RALEIGH, N.C. — Randy Jones had a goal and an assist in his debut with Los Angeles, and the Kings beat Carolina to extend the Hurricanes’ winless streak to 13.

Wayne Simmonds, former Hurricane Justin Williams and Ryan Smyth each added a goal and an assist, Jarret Stoll also scored and Anze Kopitar had two assists to give him an NHL-leading 30 points. The Kings scored three third-period goals and snapped their two-game losing streak.

Tuomo Ruutu scored twice for Carolina, and tied it at 2-all with just under 16 minutes remaining on a snap shot from the left circle. Roughly 2 1/2 minutes later, Jones took a pretty across-the-goal feed from Williams and tapped it past Manny Legace to put the Kings ahead to stay.

For Carolina, it was yet another excruciating loss in a season already full of them. Playing their first full game without injured franchise goalie Cam Ward, the Hurricanes appeared to recover after going more than 18 minutes between shots on goal, but were held to fewer than three goals for the eighth consecutive game and dropped their seventh straight in regulation.

Red Wings 9, Blue Jackets 1

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Detroit scored four times early in the first period and Niklas Kronwall had two power-play goals and an assist to lift the Red Wings past the Columbus Blue Jackets.

Justin Abdelkader tallied two late goals, Dan Cleary, Pavel Datsyuk and Todd Bertuzzi each had a goal and assist, and Kris Draper and Ville Leino also scored for Detroit, which despite major injuries to several key players and a recent loss to lowly Toronto are 5-1-1 in their last seven games.

Henrik Zetterberg added two assists, and Jimmy Howard made 25 saves to improve to 2-2-1 for the Red Wings.

Detroit’s victory was the most lopsided in the series. Columbus defeated the Red Wings 8-2 last season in Detroit.

Rick Nash had the lone goal for Columbus, which had won two straight and earned points in five consecutive games. It was the Blue Jackets’ worst home loss.

Detroit picked up where they left off after last season’s sweep in the first round of the playoffs. The Red Wings outscored the Blue Jackets 18-7 in that series.

Poor breakouts, spotty defensive-zone coverage and shaky goaltending helped Detroit take a 4-0 lead just past the midway mark of the opening period.

Capitals 5, Islanders 4

WASHINGTON — Chris Clark scored the deciding goal in the 11th round of the shootout, and backup goalie Semyon Varlamov came on in relief and carried the Washington Capitals to a comeback victory over the New York Islanders.

Alexander Semin scored two regulation goals for the Capitals, who played their fourth straight game without top scorer Alex Ovechkin (upper body strain), and added one in the second round of the shootout.

Semin gave the Capitals a 1-0 lead just 8 seconds in, but the Islanders ended starting goalie Jose Theodore’s night with three quick goals. New York scored three times on five shots against Theodore. Varlamov stopped 24 of 25 shots and then sealed the win by denying Mark Streit’s shootout attempt in the 11th round.

Jeff Tambellini gave the Islanders a 1-0 lead in the first round of the shootout, and Semin tied it in the second. The only other goal was Clark’s snap-shot winner against Dwayne Roloson.