European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 20, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday March 20 2007 stars and stripes Page 29 Eastern conference Buffalo new Jersey Atlanta Ottawa Pittsburgh Tampa Bay Carolina by 46 43 39 42 40 39 36 19 21 25 23 21 30 29 7 8 10 10 4 8 99 94 88 91 90 82 so 271 191 227 249 246 226 215 214 179 225 197 220 229 217 195 by islanders Toronto Montreal Boston Florida Washington 34 36 34 30 26 28 31 32 29 34 10 6 5 13 13 78 78 73 73 65 222 214 202 213 218 235 231 251 230 257 267 Western conference Nashville Anaheim Vancouver Detroit san Jose Minnesota Dallas Calgary w l 4720 43 17 4323 4518 4425 4224 4224 3725 opt sgt a 6 100 249 192 12 98 233 185 92 195 179 99 228 181 91 219 173 91 209 179 89 189 171 84 231 200 6 9 3 7 10 Colorado St Louis Edmonton Columbus Chicago los Angeles Phoenix 36 29 6 78 234 221 30 29 12 72 188 217 30 35 7 67 180 215 28 37 7 63 177 224 27 35 9 63 179 225 24 34 14 62 205 249 28 40 3 59 190 246 two Points for a 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deadline for salary arbitration decisions v Semin Caps rout listless lightning the associated press Washington Alexander Semin got a natural hat trick in the second period to help the Washington capitals beat the Tampa Bay lightning 71 on Sun Day Tomas Fleischmann added two goals and two assists for washing ton which won its second straight game the capitals haunt won consecutive games since beating Atlanta and Philadelphia on Jan 6 and 9 Boyd Gordon also scored for Washington and Alexandre Giroux got his second nil goal his first came in fridays 51 Victory Over Toronto the capitals Are 201 since goalie Olie Krolzig returned thurs Day after missing 13 games with a knee injury Krolzig made 30 saves against the lightning an Early Toronto miscue helped the capitals take the Lead Friday and a Tampa Bay mistake gave Washington another firstie Rod gift sunday defens Eman Dan Boyle lost the puck near the Blue line and Fleischmann then beat goalie Johan Holmqvist near the left Circle for a 10 Lead at Fleischmann made it 20 with left in the period on a Long slap shot Tampa Bay coach John Tortorella pulled Holmqvist for Marc Denis a few minutes later Semin then scored on the first three Washington shots of the Sec Ond period he scored a Power play goal at converted a Backhander at and scored on a Long wrist shot into the period for a 50 Lead the fans then littered the ice with hats and Tortorella put Holmqvist Back in but the dam age was done Thrashers 4 sabres 3 Keith Tkachuk Power play Back hander with 38 seconds left in overtime extended Host Atlanta Home winning Streak to seven games the Thrashers with 88 Points Are six up on Tampa Bay which lost 71 at Washington in the Southeast division Buffalo the Best team in the Eastern Confer ence had its two game winning Streak snapped since the Thrashers traded for them in late february Tkachuk and defens Eman Alexei Zhitnik have helped Atlanta go 82 Zhitni is seventh goal coming on a Power play slap shot Midway through the third gave the Thrashers a 32 Lead Buffalo tied it at 3all on Derek roys 15th goal with remain ing the puck glanced off Kari Lehtonen mask apparently hitting him near the right ear after Roy lifted a wrist shot Over his Shoul Der from the Bottom of the left Cir Cle Lehtonen fell face first to the ice in saturdays games senators 3 flyers 2 at Ottawa Peter Schaefer scored the winning goal and Martin Gerber stopped 28 shots in a Victory Over Philadelphia Tom Preissing and Mike com Rie also scored for the senators canadians 3 Maple Leafs 2 Saku Koivu and Andrei Kos tit syn scored in the shootout after both scored in regulation leading Host Montreal Over Toronto hurricanes 7 devils 2 at East Rutherford no Chad Larose scored two goals for the first time and Carolina sent Martin Bro Deur to the Bench with four goals on its first 12 shots in a Victory Over new Jersey rangers 7 Bruins 0 Ryan Cal Lahan scored his first two nil goals and Matt Cullen added two and an assist during Host new Yorks six goal second period against Boston panthers 8 islanders 5 at Sunrise Fla Olli Jokinen scored two third period goals to help Florida beat new York predators 3 stars 2 at Nash Ville Tenn Kimmo Timonen scored two goals and established a career High for Points in a sea son to Lead Nashville Over Dallas and spoil Mike Moranos record breaking night Modano scored two goals to pass Joe Mullen and become the highest scoring american born player with 503 career goals Tomas Vokoun made 34 saves for his 23rd Victory of the season for Nashville which snapped a five game losing Streak in Ecung the stars fou game winning Streak Jordin Tootoo scored the predators other goal blues 3 oilers 2 at Edmon ton Alberta Eric Brewer scored into overtime and St Louis extended Edmonton losing Streak to 10 games wild 4 flames 2 Brian Rolston scored the tie breaking goal at of the third period to Lead visiting Minnesota Over Cal Gary and give the wild their sixth straight win Avalanche 6 coyotes 3 at Glendale Ariz Joe Sakic and Rookie Paul Stastny scored two goals apiece and Colorado inched closer to the no 8 spot in the Western conference playoffs by beating Phoenix Sakis goals were his 29th and 30th the ninth time in his career that he has reached 30 goals in a season Stastny extended his nil Rookie record by scoring in his 20th consecutive game canucks 4 red wings 1 at Vancouver British Columbia Brendan Morrison had a shorthanded goal late in the Sec Ond period Roberto Luongo made 14 of his 32 saves in the third and Vancouver beat Detroit to remain one Point ahead of Minnesota atop the Northwest Divi Sion Kings 5 Blue jackets 3 defend semen Jamie Heward Lubomir Visnovsky and Mike Weaver scored for Host los Angeles on the teams first seven shots against Brian Boucher and defend Seman Rob Blake connected on a Power play against Columbus