by The Toronto Star

Boyle roofed a wrist shot for the lone goal in a shootout, and Evgeni Nabokov stopped all three shooters to give the Sharks their sixth straight victory, 3-2 over Columbus on Wednesday night.

"The whole night was a challenge," San Jose coach Todd McLellan said. "It wasn't an overly pretty game to watch. They did a great job of playing a straightforward, hard game and we tried to match it."

Nabokov made 26 saves in regulation and overtime, then stopped Nikita Filatov, Anton Stralman and Rick Nash in the tiebreaker.

"I never have any plan because the guys are so skilled," said Nabokov, who improved to 10-3-1. "The guys have two or three moves. I never even scout, to be honest with you. I just try to play, make sure my gaps are fine."

Joe Thornton scored and Dany Heatley added power-play goals for San Jose. The Sharks have won eight of their last nine games.

Nash had a power-play goal and Jason Chimera also scored for the Jackets. Stralman added two assists in his 100th NHL game and Steve Mason made 36 saves.

Columbus has lost six of eight since starting the season 5-1.

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.

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: 06 of overtime and the Flames needed only 19 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.

Niclas Bergfors scored two power-play goals 3: 13 apart in the third period to break open a tie game and send the New Jersey Devils to a 3-2 victory over the Alex Ovechkin-less Washington Capitals.

Brian Rolston also scored for New Jersey and Martin Brodeur made 26 saves.

Tyler Sloan and Tomas Fleischmann scored for the Capitals.

Ovechkin, the NHL MVP the past two seasons, sustained an upper-body strain on Sunday against Columbus and is week to week.

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 with a 3-0 victory.

Vokoun beat St. Louis 4-0 on Saturday.

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

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

Ryan Miller made 24 saves for his second shutout of the season and 14th overall and Thomas Vanek had a goal and assist in the Buffalo Sabres' 3-0 victory over the New York Islanders.

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