VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Jannik Hansen scored twice, Ryan Miller made 37 saves and the Vancouver Canucks beat the Colorado Avalanche 5-1 Sunday night to snap a four-game skid.
Adam Cracknell, Radim Vrbata and Christopher Tanev also scored for Vancouver. Henrik Sedin had four assists and Daniel Sedin had three assists.
The Canucks were 0-5-1 over their last six at Rogers Arena.
Semyon Varlamov stopped 23 shots, and the Avalanche ended a two-game winning streak. Matt Duchene scored with 42 seconds left for Colorado, which occupies the first wild-card spot in the Western Conference.
Rangers 1, Red Wings 0 (OT): Defenseman Kevin Klein scored with 3:01 remaining in overtime to give the New York Rangers a 1-0 victory against the Detroit Red Wings at Madison Square Garden.
Klein snapped the winner home off a 2-on-1 rush, collecting a pass from center Kevin Hayes and rifling a shot over the catching glove of Red Wings goaltender Jimmy Howard.
Lightning 4, Hurricanes 2: Center Steven Stamkos scored a tiebreaking power-play goal with 5:43 remaining to send the Tampa Bay Lightning to a 4-2 victory over the Carolina Hurricanes at PNC Arena.
Stamkos’ team-leading 25th goal of the season, which gave the Lightning a 3-2 lead, came four seconds before a high-sticking penalty on Carolina center Jordan Staal expired.
Wild 6, Blackhawks 1: It’s safe to say that few of the 50,000-plus fans in attendance Sunday had as much fun as Minnesota Wild wingers Jason Pominville and Erik Haula.
With Minnesota hosting a Stadium Series game for the first time, Pominville and Haula each had a goal and two assist as the Wild won their fourth in a row, beating the Chicago Blackhawks 6-1 at TCF Bank Stadium on the University of Minnesota campus.
Ducks 5, Flames 2: Center Ryan Kesler had two goals and an assist to lead the Anaheim Ducks to a 5-2 rout of the Calgary Flames in front of a sellout crowd 17,174 at the Honda Center.
Center Ryan Getzlaf, left-winger Patrick Maroon and defenseman Kevin Bieksa contributed goals while goalie John Gibson stopped 22 shots as the Ducks (31-19-8) used their fifth consecutive victory and their 12th in 14 games to move within two points of the first-place Los Angeles Kings in the Pacific Division. — Agencies
