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NEW YORK - Ryan Callahan, Marian Gaborik and Brian Boyle scored 1:07 apart in the Rangers' highest-scoring first period in more than 11 years, and New York then held on for a key 6-3 victory over the Montreal Canadiens on a feisty Friday night.

Rangers cruise to 6-0 victory over Capitals Erik Christensen had two goals and two assists, Henrik Lundqvist stopped 35 shots for his league-leading eighth shutout of the season, and the New York Rangers rolled to a 6-0 victory over the Washington Capitals on Friday night. Usually known as the...

TAMPA, Fla. – Steven Stamkos notched his NHL-best 38th goal to take over sole possession of the league scoring lead and help the first-place Tampa Bay Lightning win their fourth straight game, 7-1 over the struggling Atlanta Thrashers on Sunday. The Southeast leaders beat the Thrashers for the...

DETROIT – Johan Franzen scored 45 seconds into overtime to give the Detroit Red Wings a 6-5 win over the Columbus Blue Jackets in a seesaw game on Saturday night. Drew Miller had a goal and two assists, and Jonathan Ericsson and Kris Draper each added a goal and an assist for Detroit. Valtteri...

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Carl Gunnarsson scored a tiebreaking goal midway through Toronto's four-goal third period and the resurgent Maple Leafs gave coach Ron Wilson his 600th career win by beating his former team, the San Jose Sharks, 4-2 on Tuesday night. Clarke MacArthur scored twice, Phil Kessel...

ATLANTA – Mikhail Grabovski, Nikolai Kulemin and Clarke MacArthur each scored two goals in the Toronto Maple Leafs' 9-3 rout of the Atlanta Thrashers on Friday night. Kris Versteeg, Colby Armstrong and Phil Kessel each added a goal for the Maple Leafs, who scored nine straight — including six...

DETROIT – Henrik Zetterberg's second goal of the game at 2:59 of overtime gave the Detroit Red Wings a 5-4 win over the Vancouver Canucks on Wednesday night. Nicklas Lidstrom's third-period power-play goal tied the game at 4-4. Zetterberg also added an assist on Lidstrom's goal. Danny Cleary...

SAN JOSE, Calif., -- An overtime goal by Lubomir Visnovsky gave the Anaheim Ducks a 3-2 win over the Sharks at San Jose Tuesday. Visnovsky took the puck at the blue line after Anaheim won a faceoff in the Sharks' zone and rapped a modest slap shot through traffic into the net at 4:27 of the...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Alex Edler and Manny Malhotra scored power-play goals 2:44 apart midway through the third period and the Vancouver Canucks beat the Detroit Red Wings 6-4 on Saturday night for their sixth straight win. There had already been four lead changes in the fast-paced...

NFL: Seattle 20, Tennessee 18 SEATTLE, Charlie Whitehurst threw two touchdown passes Saturday and the Seattle Seahawks opened their pre-season campaign by holding off Tennessee 20-18. After starter Matt Hasselbeck threw 10 passes and completed four of them, Whitehurst came on to go 14-of-22...

Chicago 4, Philadelphia 3, OT Preview - Box Score - Recap - Series Breakdown 1 2 3 OT Total Chicago 1 2 0 1 4 Final Philadelphia 1 1 1 0 3 OT Latest Plays PHI - 0:00, K. Timonen shot on goal CHI - 0:00, B. Seabrook shot on goal 0:00 -...

NHL: Montreal 5, Pittsburgh 2 PITTSBURGH, May 12 (UPI) -- Brian Gionta's quick goal Wednesday began a shocking domination that gave Montreal a 5-2 win over Pittsburgh and a berth in the conference finals. For the second straight series, the eighth-seeded Canadiens forced a seventh game and then...

NHL: Chicago 5, Vancouver 1 VANCOUVER, British Columbia, (UPI) -- Antti Nemi made 29 saves Tuesday to lead the Chicago Blackhawks into the Western Conference finals with a 5-1 win over Vancouver. Nemi kept the hometown Canucks off the scoreboard until the third period and set the stage for a...

GLENDALE, Ariz. – Wojtek Wolski beat his former Colorado teammates in his Phoenix debut, scoring the go-ahead goal with 22 seconds left in the Coyotes' 3-1 victory over the Avalanche on Thursday night. Wolski joined the Coyotes on Wednesday in one of the seven deals the team pulled off before...

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Two nuns turn up at the fruit market and ask the veggie man for 120 cucumbers. The guy advises: "Sisters, if you buy 3 crates, that's 150, you'll get a 25% discount !" The nuns look at each other, and after a prolonged period of thinking one whispers to the other: "We could eat the 30, I suppose."

Iridium Subs Jump to 309K -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Iridium said at the close of the third quarter it was serving 309,000 subscribers worldwide, an increase of 37 percent when compared to the same period last year. Net subscriber...

SES Reports Financial Numbers -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Global satellite operator SES reported financial results for the first nine months of the year Monday, numbers that included a dip in net profit for the period to 338.8 million Euros...

Rural Groups Back Retrans Quiet Period More backing for the so-called retrans quiet period tied to the nation's digital TV transition surfaced this week. A group of rural telecom interests wrote the Federal Communications Commission endorsing a proposal that would suspend retransmission...

EchoStar Revenue, Income Up As for Charlie Ergen's other company, EchoStar reported second quarter revenue of $483 million, a 46.2 percent increase when compared with $331 million for the corresponding period in 2007. EchoStar reported net income of $48 million for the quarter, compared with...