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Alfredsson signs 4-year deal with Ottawa. The Ottawa Senators re-signed captain Daniel Alfredsson to a 4-year contact Thursday.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the Ottawa Sun reported it was worth $22 million.
The 35-year-old Alfredsson has 334 goals and 856 points in 861 career regular-season games with the Senators. He has spent his entire [...]

Canucks looking to improve offense.
Vancouver (4-5-0) at Los Angeles (3-4-1) 10:30 p.m. EDT
The Vancouver Canucks need to start scoring on a consistent basis if they want to climb out of the cellar in the Northwest Division.
The Canucks try to bounce back from a shutout loss when they visit the Los Angeles Kings on Thursday.
Vancouver, which [...]

Thursday National Hockey League Capsules.
MONTREAL 2, MINNESOTA 1
ST. PAUL, Minnesota Defensemen Francis Bouillon and Andrei Markov each scored a goal as the Montreal Canadiens edged the Minnesota Wild, 2-1.
After Minnesota blue-liner Brent Burns opened the scoring 91 seconds into the game, Bouillon forged a tie with his second tally of the season three minutes later. [...]

Thrashers lose top rookie Bogosian to injury.
Atlanta Thrashers defenseman Zach Bogosian, the No. 3 overall pick in this year’s draft, will be out indefinitely with a broken left leg.
A spokesman for the team said Thursday the injury won’t require surgery. The Thrashers did not immediately announce plans to replace Bogosian before their game against the [...]

Ovechkin teammate Semin scores more, talks less. Good as Alex Ovechkin is, he isn’t scoring much. At the moment, the NHL’s reigning MVP isn’t even playing, because he’s in Russia with his ill grandfather.
And yet the Washington Capitals are doing just fine, thank you, because of another left wing from that country: Alexander Semin.
With eight [...]

Rolling Flyers hope to continue streak against Islanders.
NY Islanders (2-6-0) at Philadelphia (3-3-3), 7:00 pm EDT
It was not too long ago that the Philadelphia Flyers seemed as hopeless as the New York Islanders currently appear to be.
The resurgent Flyers hope to extend their winning streak to four games when they host the struggling Islanders in [...]

Sabres relish junior moments. How big a step is participating in the World Junior Hockey Championships to a future NHL regular?
Buffalo Sabres left wing Clarke MacArthur calls making Team Canada in 2005-06 the happiest moment of his life.
Center Derek Roy compares the pressure to the Stanley Cup.
Left wing Daniel Paille recalls goose bumps, playing for [...]

Maple Leafs most valuable NHL team. For the third straight year, the Toronto Maple Leafs are the NHL’s most valuable team, worth $448 million.
The Leafs increased in value by 9 percent and easily were valued ahead of the New York Rangers in Forbes’ annual rankings. The Rangers are worth $411 million.
Third on the list were [...]

Steve Ott has been hobbling because of a sore groin for much of this season. But the last time the Dallas Stars had him in the lineup, they played one of their best defensive games of the year - a 2-1 win against the New York Rangers.
So when Ott returns tonight after a three-game injury [...]

Wednesday National Hockey League Capsules.
TORONTO 6, NEW JERSEY 5 (SO)
NEWARK, New Jersey Martin Brodeur faced a record number of shots prior to the shootout. But it was a sneaky one by Niklas Hagman that got the Toronto Maple Leafs a victory.
Hagman scored the decisive goal in the fourth round of the shootout, leading the Maple [...]