Maple Leafs bounce back
February 02, 2012 18:20:16 UK
Clarke MacArthur scored the only goal of the game to lead the Toronto Maple Leafs to a split of their home and away with the Pittsburgh Penguins.
The left wing scored at 13:55 of the third period assisted by Mikhail Grabovski and Nikolai Kulemin to record his 16th of the year as the Maple Leafs avenged their Tuesday night 5-4 shootout loss to the Penguins in Pittsburgh.
At the First Niagara Center in Buffalo, NY, Henrik Lundqvist registered his sixth shutout of the season as the New York Rangers prevailed 1-0 in a shootout.
The Swedish netminder stopped all 34 shots that he faced and was matched by Ryan Miller in the Sabres net, who turned away 29 before Marian Gaborik and Ryan Callahan scored in the shootout to give the Rangers the win.
The Maple Leafs are 301.00 to win the Eastern Conference, with the Penguins 251.00 and the Rangers 1.71.
The Florida Panthers moved ahead of the Washington Capitals in the Southeast division with a 4-2 victory.
Mikael Samuelsson scored twice, Stephen Weiss added a third and Shawn Matthias hit an empty netter for the final margin of victory.
Brooks Laich and John Carlson tallied for the visitors, who were without captain Alex Ovechkin as he continues to serve a league suspension.
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