European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 18, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday March 18 2007 a n d stripes Page 39 Gerry the Carolina hurricanes Scott Walker 24 shoots on new Jersey devils goalie Martin Brodeur during the third period in Raleigh no on thursday Brodeur made 38 saves As the devils beat the hurricanes 32 Brodeur lifts devils is canes backup goalie cant save Isles the associated press the new Jersey devils were thankful to have Martin Brodeur in goal against the Stanley cup Champion Carolina hurricanes the new York islanders played so poorly with a backup in net even the two time Vezina Tro Phy Winner  have helped much Brodeur stopped 38 shots and Erik Rasmussen and Zach Parise scored third period goals in new jerseys 32 Road Victory Over the hurricanes on thursday night we kept things simple Bro Deur said were fortunate that were not fighting for our lives right now right now we just have to play solid and keep our game together the islanders Are fighting for a playoff spot and took the ice at Ottawa without durable starting goalie Rick Dipietro who had started a career High 18 straight games but was sidelined from in juries sustained tuesday Mike Dunham took the Start in his place and gave up five goals on 28 shots in the islanders 52 loss to the senators he was bailed out by Wade Tubielewicz the third Stringer who came up from Bridgeport of the Ahl and made his season debut Mike Dunham is a great goaltender islanders Forward Jason Blake said it Doest matter who in net Mike Ricky or Martin Brodeur if you hang him out to dry theres not much he can do Back there it want his fault Dunham was pressed into action for the second time in three nights after making Only five appearances since dec 15 before Dipietro went Down against Mont real on tuesday it was his first Start since feb 1 Chris Neil Dean Mcammond and Jason Spezza scored apart Early in the third period the fastest three goals in senators his tory Spezza closed the spurt with his 29th at to Chase Dunham who stopped 23 shots my Job is to find the Way to Stop pucks Dunham said i Felt Good the first two periods and then just fell apart there for the first three minutes the puck All of a sudden just found its Way into the net quickly and it got out of hand Dunham also gave up five goals on 32 shots in a loss to Montreal after replacing Dipietro who was injured in a Lidice collision with canadians Forward Steve begin he sat out thursday with a stiff neck and general soreness the islanders who have lost four of five Are tied with Carolina for seventh place in the Eastern conference with 78 Points one ahead of ninth place Toronto and two up on the new York rangers and Montreal it was unacceptable Forward Ryan Smyth said after new Yorks fourth loss in five games were in a playoff race and weve got to find a Way to step up our game or were going to be on the outside looking in Scott Gomez had a goal and an assist and Jamie a Langenbrunne added two assists for the devils who have won three of four and remained two Points behind Buffalo in the race for first in the East Brodeur made 22 saves in the third period and beat the Hurri canes for the third time this sea son Marty was outstanding obviously devils coach Claude Julien said we had to have a lot of Guys step up for us to make that happen and Marty was definitely one of those Guys flyers 3 Thrashers 2 at Phila Delphia Stefan Ruzicka had a goal and two assists and the lowly flyers completed a season sweep of Southeast division leading at Lanta Bruins 4 capitals 3 Patrice Bergeron tied it in the third period then beat Olaf Krolzig in the shootout for Host Boston which rallied from a three goal deficit to beat Washington sabres 5 panthers 3 to con Klin made 42 saves in his first Start for visiting Buffalo and helped the sabres snap a sea so worst fou game losing Streak wild 2 oilers 1 Marian Gaborik scored an insurance goal into the third period and Minnesota sent Host Edmonton to its ninth straight loss stars 4 flames 2 at Dallas Mike Modano moved within a goal of Matching Joe Mullen for the Lead among unborn play ers and the stars stretched their winning Streak to four games Modano scored his 501st Ca reer goal in the first period then assisted on Rookie Junior less Ards Power play goal later in the Frame to help the stars improve to 1654 in their last 25 games canucks 3 blues 2 Daniel Sedin scored a Power play goal into overtime for the Host canucks who recovered from squandering a two goal Lead in the third period Sharks 5 coyotes 1 Joe Thornton had a goal and three assists and Jonathan Cheechov scored twice to lift san Jose Blackhawk 4 Kings 3 at los Angeles Tuomo Ruitu scored the tying goal in the third period and Nikita Alexeev netted the deciding goal in the seventh round of the shootout for Chicago Eastern conference Buffalo new Jersey Atlanta Ottawa Pittsburgh Tampa Bay Carolina by lot 45 19 6 4320 8 37 25 10 41 23 7 39 21 10 39 28 4 35 29 8 34 26 of a 96 265 208 94 189 172 84 221 221 89 246 195 88 240 217 82 223 219 78 208 215 78 209 200 Toronto Montreal by rangers Boston Florida Washington 9 35 30 6 3428 8 34 31 5 29 29 13 24 34 13 20 40 219 227 76 208 223 76 200 193 73 202 244 71 205 225 61 206 255 51 188 264 Western conference Detroit Anaheim Vancouver Nashville san Jose Dallas Minnesota Calgary w l of pts of a 45 17 9 99 227 177 96 228 183 90 191 178 98 246 190 89 216 173 89 187 168 89 205 177 37 24 10 84 229 196 42 17 12 42 23 6 46 20 43 25 42 23 41 24 35 29 6 76 228 218 29 29 12 70 185 215 30 35 6 66 178 212 28 35 7 63 174 216 27 34 9 63 177 220 23 34 14 60 200 246 28 39 3 59 187 240 Colorado St Louis Edmonton Columbus Chicago los Angeles Phoenix a division Leader two Points for a win one Point for Over time loss or shootout loss thursdays games Philadelphia 3 Atlanta 2 Boston 4 Washington 3 so new Jersey 3 Carolina 2 Buffalo 5 Florida 3 Ottawa 5 by islanders 2 Dallas 4 Calgary 2 Minnesota 2 Edmonton 1 san Jose 5 Phoenix 1 Vancouver 3 St Louis 2 of Chicago 4 los Angeles 3 so fridays games Toronto at Washington by rangers at Atlanta Montreal at Pittsburgh Buffalo at Tampa Bay Chicago at Anaheim Columbus at san Jose saturdays games Carolina at new Jersey Toronto at Montreal Philadelphia at Ottawa Boston at by rangers by islanders at Florida St Louis at Edmonton Dallas at Nashville Minnesota at Calgary Colorado at Phoenix Detroit at Vancouver Columbus at los Angeles sundays games Tampa Bay at Washington Buffalo at Atlanta Ottawa at Pittsburgh los Angeles at Anaheim san Jose at Colorado Phoenix at Dallas thursday Bruins 4 capitals 3 so Washington 210 03 Boston 012 Boston won shootout 21 first period1 Washington Clark 25 Gor Don 2 Washington Clark 26 Semin second period3 Washington Clark 27 Eminger 4 Boston Sturm 24 Bergeron third period5 Boston Bochenski 12 Sturm 30 6 Boston Berg Eron 20 Savard shootout Washington 1 Semin no Laich no Ovechkis Boston 2 Sturm no Berg Eron g Kessel shots on Goa Washington 111010334 Boston 11139639 Power play opportunities Washington 1 of 6 Boston 3 of 9 goalie Washington Krolzig 19196 39 shots36 Boston Thomas 30224 a15091 flyers 3 Thrashers 2 Atlanta 0 l 12 Philadelphia 1113 first period1 Philadelphia Hatcher 1 Ruzicka second period2 Atlanta Tkachuk 25 Hay Elid 3 Philadelphia Ruzicka 2 Sanderson third period4 Philadelphia Sanderson 11 Ruzicka 5 Atlanta be Langer 15 Tkachuk shots on Goa Atlanta 9141639 Phila Delphia 10141236 Power play opportunities Atlanta 0 of 3 Philadelphia 1 of 2 goalie Atlanta Lehtonen 31218 36 shots33 Philadelphia Biron 1662 a19122 devils 3 hurricanes 2 new Jersey 1 0 Carolina 1012 first period1 new Jersey Gomez 11 Lan Gen Brimner 39 2 Carolina Tanabe 2 Williams third period3 new Jersey Rasmussen 3 Gomez 404 new Jersey Parise 28 5 Carolina Ladd 9 Gleason Wallin shots on Jersey Carolina 1162340 Power play opportunities new Jersey 0 of 3 Carolina oof 2 goalies new Jersey Brodeur 42197 40 shots38 Carolina Grahame 8122 a18279 senators 5 islanders 2 by islanders 0 0 22 Ottawa 0 2 35 second period1 Ottawa Kelly 14 ver 2 Ottawa Corvo 7 Comrie third period3 Ottawa Neil 11 Vermette 4 Ottawa Mcammond 11 Comrie 5 Ottawa Spezza 29 Heatley 6 by islanders satan 24 Yashin 7 by is Landers Fata 1 shots on Galny islanders 881430 Ottawa 10151136 Power play opportunities by islanders l of 3 Ottawa oof 4 goalie Sny islanders Dunham 473 28 shots23 Tubielewicz third Ottawa Emery 29144 a19989 sabres 5 panthers 3 Buffalo 0 3 25 Florida 1113 first period1 Florida Weiss 18 Gelinas second penod2 Buffalo Pominville 29 Hecht 32 3 Florida Horton 26 Weiss 4 Buffalo Zubrus 22 Wallinder 5 Buffalo Stafford 7 Campbell third period6 Florida Horton 27 Van Ryn Buffalo Drury 35 Camp Bell 8 Buffalo Stafford 8 Campbell shots on Goa Buffalo 58720 Florida 15131745 Power play opportunities Buffalo 0 of 3 Florida oof 4 goalie Buffalo Conklin 332 45 shots42 Florida Belfour 22168 a18111 stars 4 flames 2 Calgary 0 1 12 Dallas 2 1 14 first period1 Dallas Modano 16 Sydor Dallas Lessard 1 Modano second penod3 Calgary Lombard 20 Tanguay 4 Dallas Hagman 16 Jokinen third penod5 Calgary Tanguay 20 Ign la 5 Dallas Lehtinen 25 shots on goal Calgary 7131232 Dallas 1012527 Power play opportunities Calgary 1 of 6 Dallas 2 of 8 goalie Calgary Mclennan 341 26 shots23 Dallas Turco 32184 a18532 wild 2 oilers 1 Minnesota l o Edmonton 0 0 11 first period1 Minnesota Parrish 17 third period2 Minnesota Gaborik 24 Demitra Edmonton Nils son 1 Thoresen shots on Goa Minnesota 1331127 Edmonton 106723 Power play opportunities Minnesota 0 of 2 Edmonton oof 5 goalie Minnesota Backstrom 1785 23 shots22 Edmonton Roloson 25305 a16839 canucks 3 blues 2 of St Louis 002 02 Vancouver 01113 second period1 Vancouver Shedin 10 Sedin third penod2 Vancouver Linden 10 Morrison 3 St Louis Mayers 8 St Louis Cajanek 12 Mcclement Vancouver Sedin 31 Shedin shots on goals Louis 2515022 Van Couver 121111337 Power play opportunities St Louis 0 of 1 Vancouver 1 of 2 goalies St Louis Sanford 695 37 shots34 Vancouver Luongo 40205 a18630 Sharks 5 coyotes 1 san Jose l 2 25 Phoenix 0 0 first period1 san Jose Cheechov 24 Thornton second period2 san Jose Cheechov 25 Michalek 3 san Jose Guerin 32 Marleau third period4 Phoenix Roche 6 Nolan 5 san Jose Thornton Cheechov san Jose Carle 11 Michalek shots on goal san Jose 1161027 Phoe Nix 611421 Power play opportunities san Jose l of 3 Phoenix i of3 goalies an Jose Nabokov 19162 21 shots20 Phoenix Hellqvist 11112 a14744 Blackhawk 4 Kings 3 so Chicago 201 04 los Angeles 210 03 Chicago won shootout 32 first period1 Chicago Alexeev 11 Arkhipova 2 Chicago Arkhipova 9 Aucoin 3 los Angeles Lundmark 5 Ivan ans 4 los Angeles Willsie 10 Osullivan second period5 los Angeles Thornton 6 Kostopoulos third Chicago Ruitu 16 Bourque shootout Chicago 3 Williams no Havlat g Hamilton no Arkhipova no Ruurung Sharp g Alexeev los Angeles 2 Brown g Cammalleri no Lundmark no Clarke no Visnovsky no Frolov g Willsie shots on Goa Chicago 883827 los Angeles 9124227 Power play opportunities Chicago 0 of 4 los Angeles 1 of 6 goalie Chicago Khabibulin 23205 27 shots24 los Angeles Burke 655 a16110