It’s always a nice treat when your best players are your best players. Sunday, that was certainly the case for at least three teams. Tonight's three stars are three players you might have heard of before.
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Henrik Sedin, Vancouver Canucks – Sedin tallied a goal and three assists to help Vancouver break its skid and down their rival Chicago Blackhawks 6-2. Also scoring for the Canucks were David Booth, Aaron Rome, Daniel Sedin, Jannik Hansen and Dan Hamhuis. Roberto Luongo stopped 38 shots for the win.
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Marian Gaborik, New York Rangers – Gaborik scored twice and assisted on Derek Stepan’s second-period goal to lead the Rangers past the Winnipeg Jets 3-0. Martin Biron stopped all 23 Winnipeg shots for his first shutout of the season.
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Steven Stamkos, Tampa Bay Lightning – Stamkos scored and assisted on Ryan Malone’s power-play goal in the second period to help the Bolts come back from a three-goal deficit and take a 4-3 shootout decision over the Florida Panthers. Teddy Purcell scored Tampa’s other regulation goal and Dominic Moore scored the game’s lone shootout goal. Dwayne Roloson was a perfect 29 for 29 after entering in relief for the Lightning.
Play of the Night
Matt Gilroy makes this nice spin move at the blue line before setting up Steven Stamkos in the second period:
Save of the Night
Check out this beautiful pad save by Roloson in the dying seconds of overtime:
Congratulations
Congratulations go out to Mark Messier, who finished the NYC Marathon. Here’s what he had to say to MSG Network after:
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