Bobby Ryan scored two goals and set up another by rookie Dan Sexton, leading the Anaheim Ducks to a 4-2 victory over the Minnesota Wild on Tuesday night.

Antti Miettinen and Kim Johnsson scored for the Wild, who squandered a chance to set a team record with their 11th win this month. At 10-5 in December, they have one more opportunity to do it, on Thursday against at home against the Los Angeles Kings.

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Rene Bourque scored three goals for his second career hat trick to help the Calgary Flames end a three-game losing streak with a 4-1 win over the Edmonton Oilers on Monday night.

Mark Giordano also scored for the Flames, who have won all four meetings with the Oilers this year.

Ryan Potulny replied for the Oilers, who have lost seven in a row, their worst run since a nine-game skid from Feb.

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Mike Cammalleri scored the Montreal Canadiens’ 20,000th goal in the first period of Monday night’s game against the Ottawa Senators.

The 20,000-goal total includes all of Montreal’s regular-season goals since joining the NHL as a founding member in 1917, as well as the Canadiens’ regular-season goals from their first eight seasons in the National Hockey Association, the NHL’s predecessor.

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Marco Sturm broke a third-period tie, and Tim Thomas made 25 saves in the Boston Bruins’ 2-1 victory over the Florida Panthers on Sunday night.

Dominic Moore opened the scoring for Florida early in the first period, and Michael Ryder tied it late in the second.

Sturm scored at 4:39 of the final period, tipping the puck past Scott Clemmensen for his 11th goal of the season.

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Austrian skiers held the top three spots after the opening run of a World Cup slalom on the Gran Risa course Monday.

Herbst won the opening slalom of the season in Levi, Finland, last month.

Slalom world champion Manfred Pranger led in 53.35 seconds, and Reinfried Herbst was second, 0.22 seconds behind.

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Barcelona won the Club World Cup on Saturday, beating Estudiantes 2-1 on Lionel Messi’s goal in extra time.

Messi chested Daniel Alves’ cross into the goal in the 110th minute. Estudiantes had gone ahead in the 37th minute on Mauro Boselli’s header. The Spanish champions tied the score when Pedro Rodriguez headed home a goal in the 89th minute.

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Manuel Osborne-Paradis of Canada won a World Cup downhill on the Saslong course on Saturday, while Bode Miller battled a sore ankle and headwinds to finish ninth.

Mario Scheiber of Austria was second, 0.13 seconds behind, while Swiss racer Ambrosi Hoffmann and Johan Clarey of France tied for third, 0.

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Martin Brodeur broke Patrick Roy’s record for regular-season appearances by a goaltender when he started his 1,030th game for the New Jersey Devils against the Ottawa Senators on Friday night.

Brodeur set the NHL record for career wins by a goaltender last year, breaking another mark previously set by Roy.

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Spain is ranked No. 1 in the year-end FIFA standings for the second straight year, while the United States is ranked 14th.

The Netherlands and world champion Italy stayed third and fourth as the top 10 remained unchanged.

In rankings published Wednesday, the European champion maintained the lead it took last month from South American champion Brazil.

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T.J. Oshie scored the go-ahead goal with 4:58 to play, helping the St. Louis Blues beat the Calgary Flames 4-3 on Tuesday night for only their sixth victory in 18 home games.

The Blues have honored Hull twice, but the first wasn’t a complete success. St. Louis was beaten 5-1 by the Detroit Red Wings in December 2006 in the final game before coach Mike Kitchen was fired.

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