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Mark Messier now has more points that Gordie Howe.
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It was a good week for members of the Edmonton Oilers dynasty.
Grant Fuhr was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame, Mark Messier passed Gordie Howe for second place on the NHL points list, and Wayne Gretzky and Kevin Lowe were picked to head up Canada's team for next year's World Cup of Hockey.
Only Messier is still making news on the ice. His two goals Tuesday night gave him 1,851 points -- one more than Howe but 1,006 fewer than Gretzky.
Fuhr became the first black member of the Hall of Fame when he was enshrined Monday in Toronto.
He earned 403 victories in goal and backstopped all five of the Oilers' Stanley Cup victories between 1984-90. Those teams played wide-open hockey with several fast forwards, leaving Fuhr as the last line of defense.
"We had a lot of fun with the way we played," Fuhr said. "You knew you were going to be busy and knew that you were going to have lots of nights of work. It's a fun style to play in and it was fun to be a part of all that."
Gretzky is returning as Team Canada's executive director, after building Canada's first Olympic gold medal-winning team last year in Salt Lake City. He is bringing along former teammate Lowe, who is the Oilers' current GM.
Lightning lose
It was bound to happen. The Tampa Bay Lightning fell from the ranks of the unbeaten after opening with seven wins and a tie.
The Washington Capitals got to the streaking Lightning on Tuesday night, winning at Tampa Bay 5-1.
Lightning coach John Tortorella knew his club wasn't going to finish the schedule unbeaten, but the thought was a nice one. He'll settle for being the last team in the league to lose this season.
"Youll never hear me say it's important to lose a game," Tortorella said after Tampa Bay fell to 7-1-1. "I think you want to go in with an attitude wanting to win all 82, but you know you are not going to win all 82. The way we try to approach it here is, each day we take it for that day."
Washington, knocked out by Tampa Bay in the first round of the playoffs last season, took delight in ending the streak that fell five games short of a Lightning record.
"It adds to the satisfaction because they're the first-place team in our division and we don't like them -- plain and simple," Washington coach Bruce Cassidy said.
The Lightning followed that defeat up with their second straight loss on Thursday night, this time in overtime to Los Angeles. The regulation tie still paid off with a standings point for the ninth time in 10 games.