NHL ROUNDUP

NHL ROUNDUP

Friday’s games

Rangers 1, Maple Leafs 0, SO

NEW YORK — Steve Valiquette outdueled Toronto’s Vesa Toskala in a goalie showdown, and Fredrik Sjostrom scored the deciding goal in a shootout. Valiquette allowed a goal in the tiebreaker to Nikolai Kulemin, but earned his third NHL shutout when Jason Blake hit the post on the final shot of the shootout. Nikolai Zherdev opened the shootout with a goal for the Rangers, who bounced back from a 3-1 loss to Buffalo on Wednesday night to improve to 6-1. Toronto is 0-1-2 since opening with a victory over the Stanley Cup champion Detroit.

Blue Jackets 5, Predators 3

COLUMBUS — Rick Nash had two goals and rookies Nikita Filatov and Jake Voracek added goals in a Columbus-record span of 8 seconds. The victory ended Nashville’s string of 16 consecutive games with a point against Columbus (15-0-1). It was the longest active streak in an NHL regular-season series.

Sabres 5, Canucks 2

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Thomas Vanek scored his NHL-leading sixth goal and added two assists, and Ales Kotalik scored twice to help Buffalo improve to 4-0.

Senators 6, Coyotes 3

OTTAWA — Jason Spezza had two goals and two assists, Jarko Ruutu also scored twice, and Martin Gerber made 34 saves for Ottawa. Dany Heatley and Anton Volchenkov added goals for the Senators. Daniel Alfredsson had two assists in his first game since having knee surgery a week ago.

Associated Press