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Gartner Hurts Knee In Victory

Associated Press

Craig Janney set up three goals as the Phoenix Coyotes beat the visiting Calgary Flames 3-1 Sunday night in a game marred by an injury to veteran right wing Mike Gartner.

Gartner, two goals shy of becoming the fifth player in NHL history to score 700, was blindsided by Calgary’s Theoren Fleury and limped off the ice with 6 seconds remaining in the first period.

The Coyotes said Gartner suffered a sprained left knee and would undergo an MRI exam today.

Other games

Chris Terreri, making his 13th consecutive start in place of injured Jeff Hackett, stopped 24 shots as the host Chicago Blackhawks defeated the Pittsburgh Penguins 3-1 for their first three-game winning streak since last February.

After scoring two or fewer goals in 11 of 12 games, the Blackhawks have 11 goals in the last three. The Penguins were playing on the road for the ninth time in 10 games.

Rob DiMaio’s tie-breaking goal with 2:41 left gave the road-tough Boston Bruins a 3-1 victory over the Ottawa Senators.

After DiMaio broke a 1-1 tie with his third goal of the season, Ted Donato scored a empty-net goal with 49 seconds remaining.

The Bruins, now 7-2-0 on the road, tied Ottawa at the top of the Northeast Division.

It was the second loss of the season at home for the Senators and the first win against a division rival for the Bruins.

Darren McCarty, Nicklas Lidstrom and Brendan Shanahan each scored power-play goals for Detroit, leading the Red Wings to a 4-3 win over visiting Anaheim. Vyacheslav Kozlov also scored for Detroit, which has won five of its last six games.

The loss snapped a club-record five-game road unbeaten streak for the Mighty Ducks. Teemu Selanne’s first-period goal extended his club-record goal streak to seven games.

The Red Wings, who were 0-for-13 on power plays against Anaheim last season, scored on three of six chances Sunday. The Mighty Ducks had killed off 55 of 61 power plays, second-best in the NHL.

Driver in court

Richard Gnida, the driver of a limousine that crashed and left two Detroit Red Wings disabled, will be sentenced today in Birmingham, Mich., on a misdemeanor charge of driving without a valid driver’s license. Gnida, who pleaded guilty Oct. 20, faces up to a year in the county jail and a $1,000 fine.

The June 13 crash near Detroit left defenseman Vladimir Konstantinov and team trainer Sergei Mnatsakanov with severe brain injuries. Doctors have said Mnatsakanov will never walk again, and Konstantinov may never speak again.