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Isles Overcome Another Deficit To Beat Capitals

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: February 21, 2008

WASHINGTON - Mike Comrie scored the only goal of the shootout, and the New York Islanders pushed their winning streak to a season-high five games Wednesday night with a 3-2 victory over the Washington Capitals.

Comrie's backhander was the last shot in the shootout, following misses by Washington's Viktor Kozlov, Alex Ovechkin and Alexander Semin and New York's Richard Park and Miroslav Satan.

Satan and Josef Vasicek scored in regulation for the Islanders, who overcame a 2-0 deficit for the second straight game.

DEVILS 3, SHARKS 2: John Madden and Sergei Brylin scored 1:10 apart during New Jersey's three-goal second period, and the Devils took advantage of backup goalie Thomas Greiss and beat the San Jose.

During a rare night off for San Jose ironman Evgeni Nabokov, the Devils scored three goals on 10 shots in the pivotal period and won their third straight and fifth in six games (5-0-1). They were outshot 32-20 and went without a power-play chance until the third.

FLAMES 3, STARS 2: Jarome Iginla scored the go-ahead goal with 2:27 remaining to lift Calgary.

With the game tied at 2, Daymond Langkow backhanded a pass in front of the net to an unchecked Iginla, the former Dallas first-round draft pick who fired his 30th goal of the season past Stars goaltender Marty Turco.

Alex Tanguay scored twice for the Flames, including a short-handed goal early in the third period.

BLACKHAWKS 3, WILD 0: Nikolai Khabibulin made 38 saves for his first shutout in nearly a year and rookie Dave Bolland scored two goals for Chicago.

FLYERS: Simon Gagne might not play again this season because of lingering symptoms from the three concussions he sustained this season.

The injured forward was told Wednesday to sit out the rest of the year when he went to visit concussion specialist James Kelly in Denver.

RED WINGS: Star defenseman Nicklas Lidstrom expects to be out for three weeks with an injured right knee.

Lidstrom says his knee is sore, but it felt better Wednesday than he thought it would after being slammed into the boards earlier this week.

The Associated Press

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