European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 20, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday March 20 2007 stars and stripes Page 29 nil Storebo Fanf Eastern conference Buffalo new Jersey Atlanta Ottawa Pittsburgh Tampa Bay Carolina by 46 43 38 42 40 39 36 19 21 25 23 21 29 29 6 8 10 10 4 8 98 94 86 91 90 82 80 268 191 223 249 246 225 215 210 179 222 197 220 222 217 195 by islanders Toronto Montreal Boston Florida Washington 34 36 34 30 25 28 31 32 29 34 10 6 5 13 13 78 78 73 73 63 222 214 202 213 211 235 231 251 230 256 267 Western conference Nashville Anaheim Vancouver Detroit san Jose Minnesota Dallas 47 43 43 45 44 42 42 20 17 23 18 25 24 24 6 12 6 9 3 7 5 100 98 92 99 91 91 89 249 233 195 228 219 209 189 192 185 179 181 173 179 171 200 Colorado St Louis Edmonton Columbus Chicago los Angeles 30 30 28 27 24 29 35 37 35 34 12 7 7 9 14 72 67 63 63 62 188 180 177 179 205 217 215 224 225 249 246 two Points for a win one Point for Over time loss or shootout loss 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ruin Moranos night the associated press Nashville Tenn Kimmo Timonen spoiled Mike Moranos record breaking night Timonen scored two goals and established a career High for Points in a season to Lead the Nashville predators to a 32 Victory Over the Dallas stars on Satur Day night Modano scored twice to pass Joe Mullen for the most goals by an american born player with 503 Nashville snapped a five game losing Streak by ending the stars fou game winning Streak after a scoreless first period Nashville Jordin Tootoo opened the scoring at of the second period he picked up a Loose puck in the lower left face off Circle and fired a Shar Pangle wrist shot Over the stick shoulder of Dallas goalie Marty Turco Moranos record tying goal came 99 seconds later with the stars on the Power play Modano skated Down the left Side and took a pass from de Senseman Darryl Sydor at the Blue line Modano pulled up at the left face off Dot and fired a wrist shot Between the legs of Nashville goalie Tomas Vokoun Moranos 502nd goal came in his 1227th career game Mullen posted his 502 goals in 1062 games Modano who has played his entire career with the Minne franchise has scored at least one goal in four Conescu Tive games Ive been feeling Good Ive been getting chances Modano said tonight it just seemed like i Only had a couple of shots and they seemed to go in Modano trails Only Phil hous Ley for Points scored by an Ameri can born player Housley had 1232 Points in his 1495game Ca reer Modano has 1217 Points in going to try to get that one too Modano said id hate to go a whole summer and be four or five Points away 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 the senators swept the season series with the flyers 40 and moved ahead of the Pittsburgh penguins into fourth place in the Eastern conference 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 Koivu scored on Montreal third attempt to preserve the Ca Nadies chances after Mats Sun Din beat Jaroslav Halak on Toron tos second shot 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 Rod Brindamour Ray Whit Ney and Josef Vasicek each had a goal and an assist in a big second period that Larose capped with a goal against devils backup Scott Clemmensen 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 Henrik Lundqvist was the beneficiary of the rangers highest scoring period this season he stopped 30 shots for his fourth shutout of the season and sixth of his career he tossed his stick into the crowd after being chosen As the top Star of the game panthers 8 islanders 5 at Sunrise Fla Olli Jokinen scored two third period goals to help Florida beat new York Ville Peltonen also scored two goals for the panthers and Rostislav Olesz Gregory Campbell Juraj Kolnik and Jozef Stumpel had one apiece de Belfour stopped 28 shots blues 3 oilers 2 at Edmon ton Alberta Eric Brewer scored into overtime and St Louis extended Edmonton losing Streak to 10 games Petr Cajanek and Jeff Woywot a also scored for the blues wild 4 flames 2 Brian Rolston scored the tie breaking goal at of the third period to Lead visiting Minnesota Over Cal Gary and we the wild their sixth straight win Rolston blasted a slap shot through the legs of Calgary goalie Mitikka Kip Rusoff to give the wild their first Lead in the game 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 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 Jamie Lundmark also scored and Jaroslav Modry had two assists for the Kings who earned a split of the fou game season series