Jamie Langenbrunner punches in the game-winner for New Jersey.
By The Associated Press

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. – Jamie Langenbrunner scored with 42.7 seconds remaining in overtime Wednesday night, giving the New Jersey Devils a 3-2 win over the San Jose Sharks.

Scott Stevens set up the first two New Jersey goals, by Christian Berglund and Turner Stevenson, to reach 900 career points. Martin Brodeur made 13 saves as the Devils extended their winning streak to four games.

Scott Thornton and Alexander Korolyuk scored for the Sharks.

New Jersey pressed the attack in the final minute of overtime as Scott Niedermayer had three solid chances. The pressure paid off when John Madden spun and whipped a hard backhand pass across the slot that Langenbrunner slammed home from the bottom of the left circle.

Thornton tied it midway through the third period, when San Jose pulled even for the second time. Mike Ricci threaded a backhand pass through the slot that Thornton slipped past Brodeur at 8:10.

Earlier in the period, Berglund tipped Stevens’ point shot past Evgeni Nabokov at 2:34 to put New Jersey up 2-1. The goal came exactly two minutes after Korolyuk tied it at 1.

Kings 3, Panthers 2

SUNRISE, Fla. – Derek Armstrong and Trent Klatt scored power-play goals and the Los Angeles Kings won at Florida for the first time, beating the Panthers 3-2 on Wednesday night

Jonathan Sim also scored for Los Angeles, which was a combined 0-4-3 at Miami Arena and the Office Depot Center. Roman Cechmanek made 33 saves for the Kings to improve to 6-1-1 lifetime against Florida.

Rookie Nathan Horton and Mike Van Ryn scored for Florida. It was the second goal in two games for Horton, the third overall pick in the 2003 draft.

Roberto Luongo made 23 saves in his first start in three games for the Panthers.

The Kings had seven power-play opportunities in the first two periods, while Florida had only two.

Armstrong, who spent time in the minors in each of his previous 10 seasons of professional hockey, scored his fifth goal of the season in the first period when he took Luc Robitaille’s pass in the slot and one-timed a shot that beat Luongo to the glove side.

Klatt made it 2-0 at 3:59 of the second when he tipped in Lubomir Visnovsky’s slap shot.

A non-call helped Los Angeles increase its lead to 3-0 at 11:29 of the second period.

Thrashers 7, Sabres 4

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Patrik Stefan scored on a penalty shot, and Randy Robitaille and Ilya Kovalchuk each had a goal and two assists in the Atlanta Thrashers’ 7-4 victory over the Buffalo Sabres on Wednesday night.

Shawn McEachern added three assists for Atlanta, which snapped a three-game winless streak and moved into first place in the Southeast Division.

Atlanta turned a two-goal deficit after the first period into a 4-3 lead with three consecutive goals by Jean-Pierre Vigier, Ivan Majesky and Robitaille in a 3:23 span late in the second period.

Vigier and Majesky’s goals came just 27 seconds apart.

Stefan scored on a penalty shot, Yannick Tremblay had a power-play goal and Serge Aubin scored in the third period for the Thrashers.

Daniel Briere capped the scoring for the Sabres with a goal at 14:31 of the third period.

The four goals were the most allowed this season by Pasi Nurminen, who made 28 saves.

Canucks 4, Predators 3

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Sami Salo scored a power-play goal and assisted on another in the Vancouver Canucks’ 4-3 victory over the Nashville Predators on Wednesday night.

Jason King, Trevor Linden and Brendan Morrison also scored for the Canucks, who improved to 7-0-2 in their last nine games.

Scott Hartnell, Adam Hall and Scott Walker had goals for the Predators.

Nashville outshot Vancouver 6-0 early and took a 1-0 lead at 7:45 of the first period when Hartnell snared a bad pass by the Canucks and put a one-timer past Johan Hedberg.

The Canucks tied it at 11:23 of the first period when Markus Naslund hit Sami Salo with perfect pass high in the slot, and Salo shot the puck over Tomas Vokoun.

Nashville scored again in the first period when Hall put a wrist shot just inside the right post at 18:04 on the power play.

The Canucks tied it for the second time at 7:24 of the second period on King’s goal.

Linden put Vancouver ahead 3-2 in the third period with the Canucks’ second 5-on-3 power-play goal at 1:49.

Vancouver got an insurance goal at 10:29 on Morrison’s goal.

Notes: The Canucks had scored the first goal in their first 12 games, falling short of the 18-game, first-goal streak set by Montreal in 1959. Nashville sent Wade Brookbank to Milwaukee of the AHL for conditioning Wednesday.

Jim McKenzie, out since preseason with a knee injury, played his first game for Nashville. Vancouver’s Bryan Allen sat out, the first of two after he was suspended without pay as the result of a slashing incident against Detroit on Nov. 3. King’s six goals leads NHL rookies.

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