European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 24, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 32 o stars and stripes saturday March 24 2007 rising avs keep up playoff push by defeating plummeting oilers the associated press its been a memorable few weeks for the Colorado Ava Lanche and just As forgettable a Span for the Edmonton oilers when the avs beat the oilers 51 wednesday night it moved Colorado within four Points of Idle Calgary for the final Western conference playoff berth about a month ago the avs seemed to be plummeting out of Contention which is exactly where Edmon ton is while Colorado has won nine of its last 10 games the Oil ers have lost 12 straight their playoff Hopes have disappeared less than a year after going to the Stanley cup finals and losing game 7 to Carolina Ian Laper nere had two goals Joe Sakic John Michael Liles and Brett Clark also scored for Colorado which has won four in a Row we have a lot of momentum right now and a lot of Confidence Colorado coach Joel Quenneville said we feel Good about ourselves and Are doing a Good Job keeping in that mus twin Mode and the oilers they Haven won in 11 games since trading for Ward Ryan Smyth to the new York islanders and Are nearing the Tea record 14 game wingless Streak from the 199394 season the Best indicator of the things to come was turning Over the puck three times in the first 13 seconds of the game oilers coach Craig Mactavish said when you Are at a size and skill disadvantage you want to make sure you Are playing a smart game and we started off not play ing that Way our biggest weakness was our inability to defend we vacated the dangerous areas of the ice it was disappointing on a lot of fronts Laperriere says the Avalanche players Are trying not to get too far ahead of themselves were just taking it one game at a time he said every Point is so huge right now we have nine games left and Are four Points Back and we cant afford to let up i like the Way we Are playing right now and the Way we have approached our games it is some thing we will have to repeat and repeat and repeat Here canucks 2 predators 0 Jan Bulis and Tommi Santala scored in the first period and Roberto Luongo made 20 saves Longos 43rd Victory moved him ahead of new jerseys Martin Brodeur atop the nil it was the fourth straight Victory for the Host canucks who improved to 911 in March and moved three Points ahead of Minnesota atop the Northwest Divi Sion with 96 Points Vancouver also moved within four of the predators who still Lead the West Ern conference and Central Divi Sion by one Point Over Detroit de spite losing three of four rangers 5 flyers 0 at new York the rangers used their fists and Sticks to beat the flyers whose Todd Fedoruk got knocked out by Colton orrs punch Orr flattened Fedoruk with a hard punch 21 seconds into the game in response to Philadel shias rough play in the last meet ing on feb 17 Fedoruk was re moved from the ice on a Stretcher and taken to St Vincents Hospi Tal and kept overnight Todd is doing Fine rangers neurologist Claude Macaluso said in a statement he is awake he is having some problems with Short term memory but other than that he is great there Are no neurological problems at All stars 4 Kings 2 Antti Miettinen and Krys Barch scored the tying and godhead goals 79 seconds apart Early in the third period and visiting Dallas completed an eight game season sweep of los Angeles Mike Ribeiro scored a Power play goal and Jeff Halpern had an empty Netter for the stars who outscored los Angeles 2914 this season while beating four goaltenders Dallas Mike Smith made 20 saves and finished 30 against the Kings the other five wins went to Marty Turco Jamie Lundmark and Dustin Brown scored for los Angeles Sharks 4 Blackhawk 1 Jonathan Cheechov and Milan Michalek had two goals each and Joe Thornton added three assists As visiting san Jose won for the fifth time in six games Thornton has 99 Points this sea son 20 goals 79 second behind Sidney Crosby of Pitts Burgh 108 Points in the nil scoring race Patrick Sharpe notched his 17th goal for the Blackhawk who were eliminated from play off Contention after the previous nights loss at Columbus san Jose meanwhile remained right in the thick of the Western Confer ence race moving past Minnesota 93 Points and into fifth place with 94 Points sabres 5 capitals 2 Daniel Briere and Derek Roy scored Power play goals sparking the sabres sputtering special teams Drew Stafford had two third be Rod goals and Clarke Macarthur also scored in helping Buffalo snap a season worst three game Home losing Streak Dainius Zubrus had two assists in his first game against his former team the sabres acquired the Forward in a Deal with the capitals last month l of pts of a 21 6 100 249 194 18 12 98 236 190 23 6 96 199 180 19 9 99 229 183 san 25 4 94 226 178 24 5 93 198 177 24 7 93 212 181 25 10 86 233 201 29 6 82 243 225 St 30 12 72 190 221 37 7 67 182 222 37 7 65 182 226 los 35 14 64 212 256 Chicago Phoenix in info 37 9 63 182 234 28 41 4 60 196 254 a win nip Point for Over Eastern conference a Buffalo new Jersey Atlanta Ottawa Pittsburgh Tampa Bay by rangers Montreal w lot 47 19 7 43 22 8 39 25 10 4323 8 41 22 10 40 30 4 37 28 9 37 31 6 pts of a 101 276 216 94 192 181 88 227 225 94 256 203 92 251 225 84 230 232 83 215 196 80 215 231 Carolina Toronto by islanders Florida Boston Washington Philadelphia 36 29 8 35 28 10 34 27 11 31 29 13 3433 5 26 35 13 20 43 11 80 215 217 80 224 236 79 217 212 75 217 231 73 202 252 65 220 262 51 191 276 Western conference time loss or shootout loss division Leader clinched playoff spot wednesdays games Buffalo 5 Washington 2 by rangers 5 Philadelphia 0 san Jose 4 Chicago 1 Colorado 5 Edmonton l Vancouver 2 Nashville 0 dal Las 4 los Angeles 2 thursdays games san Jose at Atlanta Washington at Carolina Ottawa at Florida Montreal at Boston Columbus at Detroit Pittsburgh at by islanders new Jersey at Tampa Bay St Louis at Minnesota Nashville at Calgary Anaheim at Phoenix fridays games Toronto at Buffalo los Angeles at Chicago Colorado at Edmonton Dallas at Anaheim wednesday sabres 5 capitals 2 Washington 0 1 12 Buffalo 0 3 25 second period1 Buffalo Roy 16 Kalinin 40 2 Buffalo Macarthur 3 Mair Washington Pothier 3 Clark 4 Buffalo Briere 30 Zubrus third period5 Buffalo Stafford 10 Vanek 6 Buffalo Stafford Washington Brashear 4 Green shots on Goa Washington 810826 Buffalo 1191131 Power play opportunities Washington 0 of 3 Buffalo 2 of4 goalie Washington Krolzig 21206 31 shots26 Buffalo Miller 34156 a18690 first period1 by rangers Prucha 19 i second period2 by rangers jagr 26 Rosival 3 by rang ers Avery 15 pock third period4 by rangers Ortmeyer 2 Cullen 5 by rangers Avery 16 Shanahan shots on Goa Philadelphia 78217 by rangers 1114934 Power play opportunities Philadelphia 0 of 2 by rangers 2 of 4 goalie Philadelphia Niit Tomaki 9289 34 shots29 by rangers Lundqvist 32217 a18200 Sharks 4 Blackhawk 1 san Jose 1 1 24 rangers 5 flyers 0 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