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NHL Capsules

By The Associated Press

DALLAS (AP) Jarome Iginla scored on a power play at 1:25 of overtime to give the Calgary Flames a 3-2 comeback victory over the Dallas Stars on Wednesday night.

Daymond Langkow tied it for the Flames with 49 seconds left in regulation and goalie Curtis McElhinney on the bench for an extra attacker. Iginla passed in front to Langkow, who backhanded the puck past Marty Turco.

Dallas drew a delay of game penalty at 1:09 of overtime, and the Flames needed only 16 seconds to capitalize when Iginla - who also scored in the second period - fired a shot from the left point that got past a screened Turco.

McElhinney, the backup to Miikka Kiprusoff, stopped Brenden Morrow on a second-period penalty shot an finished with 38 saves in his second start of the season.

Turco, back after missing two games due to flu-like symptoms, stopped 19 shots. James Neal and Loui Eriksson scored for Dallas.

Avalanche 4, Coyotes 1

DENVER (AP) - Milan Hejduk had two goals and an assist, and Peter Budaj - recovered from swine flu - stopped 28 shots for Colorado in his first start of the season.

Marek Svatos also scored, David Jones added an empty-netter, and Paul Stastny had three assists. The Avalanche snapped a two-game skid to remain on top of the Western Conference standings and tie Pittsburgh for the overall lead.

Colorado also improved to 5-0 at the Pepsi Center, one win away from tying its best home start since moving to the Mile High City.

Budaj allowed only Ed Jovanovski's power-play goal midway through the third.

Panthers 3, Hurricanes 0

SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) - Tomas Vokoun made 31 saves for his second straight shutout, Steven Reinprecht opened the scoring early in the third period, and Florida extended Carolina's winless streak to 10 games.

Vokoun beat St. Louis 4-0 on Saturday.

Cory Stillman added a power-play goal and an assist, and Reinprecht also had an assist. Defenseman Bryan Allen scored an empty-net goal with 2:01 left.

Cam Ward stopped 22 shots for Carolina, 0-6-0 in the road.

The Panthers have won three straight after opening 2-7-1.

Carolina, 0-7-3 during its losing streak, hasn't won since beating Florida 7-2 on Oct. 9 in its fourth game of the season.

Sharks 3, Blue Jackets 2, SO

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - San Jose defenseman Dan Boyle scored the lone goal in a shootout, and Evgeni Nabokov stopped all three Columbus shooters to give the Sharks their sixth straight win and eighth in their last nine games.

Nabokov made 26 saves in regulation and overtime, then stopped attempts by Nikita Filatov, Anton Stralman and Rick Nash in the tiebreaker to improve to 10-3-1.

Joe Thornton scored and Dany Heatley added a power-play goal for San Jose. Nash had a power-play goal and Jason Chimera also scored for the Blue Jackets.

Sabres 3, Islanders 0

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - Ryan Miller made 24 saves for his second shutout of the season and 14th overall, and Thomas Vanek had a goal and assist for Buffalo.

Derek Roy and Paul Gaustad also scored to help the Sabres (9-2-1) rebound from a 5-0 loss to the Islanders on Saturday on Long Island.

Former Sabres goalie Martin Biron made 36 saves for the Islanders (5-5-5), who had their winning streak snapped at four.

Devils 3, Capitals 2

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - Niclas Bergfors scored power-play goals 3:13 apart in the third period and New Jersey beat Alex Ovechkin-less Washington.

Brian Rolston also scored, and Martin Brodeur made 26 saves for New Jersey. Tyler Sloan and Tomas Fleischmann scored for Washington. Ovechkin, the NHL MVP the past two seasons, sustained an upper-body strain Sunday against Columbus.

Updated November 5, 2009