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DALLAS — Down a goal with less than a minute left in regulation, the Dallas Stars appeared to have little more than a slim chance against NHL points leader Vancouver.

Moments later, Mike Ribeiro and Loui Eriksson provided a stunning boost to the Stars’ playoff chances.

Ribeiro scored the tying goal in the final minute of regulation and Eriksson netted the winner at 3:52 of overtime to give the Stars their fourth consecutive victory, 3-2 over the Canucks on Sunday.

“It took us 59 minutes to get the second goal, but I thought we stuck with it for 60 minutes and we showed some resolve,” Stars coach Glen Gulutzan said. “We got a result at the end and it’s a big win for our hockey team going down the stretch.”

With a shootout looming late in overtime, Steve Ott carried the puck deep in the Vancouver end and passed to Trevor Daley at the left circle. Eriksson skated to the net and knocked Daley’s goal-mouth pass by Roberto Luongo.

“I was looking at (Daley) and it was a great pass,” Eriksson said after his 21st goal of the season. “I was open there … so it was pretty easy to put home.”

Ribeiro’s goal with 52.5 seconds left in regulation pushed the game into extra time.

With goalie Kari Lehtonen on the bench in favor of a sixth skater, Ribeiro deflected Alex Goligoski’s shot from the point for his 14th of the season.

Michael Ryder added a power-play goal for the Stars, who hadn’t won four in a row since Oct. 29 to Nov. 8.

“They’re a desperate team,” Luongo said. “They’re playing for their lives. They’re in playoff mode right now. Got to give them credit, they battled to the end and came away with a win.”

Ryan Kesler scored in the opening minute of the second period for the Canucks, who were 8-1-1 in their previous 10 road games. But the Canucks were playing their sixth game in nine days and they seemed to be dragging a bit by the overtime.

“Logically, six games in 8½ days in six different cities, that’s a lot of hockey,” coach Alain Vigneault said. “But that being said, we had the game where we wanted it, going into the third with a one-goal lead. Unfortunately, we lost it.”

Mason Raymond added a goal and Chris Higgins had two assists for Vancouver, which improved to 87 points. The Canucks were 12-1-3 in their previous 16 games overall.

Dallas has 70 points, eighth in the Western Conference.

The teams played the first of four meetings this season. Last season, Vancouver swept the four-game series by a combined score of 20-5.

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BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Penguins’ performance Sunday in Buffalo could be described as undisciplined. Defenseman Kris Letang wouldn’t even give the Penguins that much credit following their 6-2 setback against the lowly Sabres.

“Discipline is one thing,” Letang said. “But we didn’t even show up.”

The Penguins were short-handed five times, permitted a shorthanded goal, a penalty shot and never played with the enthusiasm expected from a team battling for playoff position in a nationally televised game.

“There’s nothing you can say, honestly,” said Letang, who, along with defenseman Paul Martin, was a minus-4.

“We didn’t show up. We didn’t play the right way.”

Goals from defenseman Deryk Engelland and center Jordan Staal gave the Penguins life, pulling them within a goal in the third period after falling behind, 3-0.

However, two Buffalo goals in the following 3:27 not only put the contest away but illustrated just how poorly the Penguins played.

Center Drew Stafford scored on a wraparound goal to make it 4-2, with Martin and Engelland both losing track of their men on the play. Fleury, although brilliant in the second period after replacing Brent Johnson — who gave up three goals on 12 shots — was down on the play and allowed the shot to bounce off his chest and in.

“We left our goalies hung out to dry,” Penguins right wing Pascal Dupuis said.

Then, with the Penguins on a power play, the Sabres delivered a crushing blow.

Late on the man advantage, Letang chose to forecheck while the rest of the Penguins trailed the play. In fact, while Letang was pursuing the puck in Buffalo territory, center Evgeni Malkin was circling the Penguins’ net. With the Penguins utterly out of position, right wing Zach Kassian found left wing Tyler Ennis for the goal that essentially ended the game.

“I don’t know what the problem is,” said center Craig Adams, who was referring to the Penguins’ recent bout with discipline and poor starts. “But it is a problem.”

The Penguins have permitted 10 first-period goals in their past seven games. Although they have managed to win three recent games despite allowing two first-period goals, the Penguins realize such a formula simply isn’t acceptable.

“It was a letdown from our team,” Penguins coach Dan Bylsma said.

The Penguins got back into the game in the second period, but Fleury’s play was most responsible. The Penguins were short-handed twice during that period and forced Fleury to stop forward Patrick Kaleta on a penalty shot.

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CALGARY, Alberta — Veteran center Jason Arnott was proud to be wearing the St. Louis wiener hat after Monday’s victory in Calgary.

Arnott scored two power-play goals and the Blues defeated the Flames 3-1 to move into a tie with Detroit atop the Central Division, and within two points of Vancouver for first place overall.

“It’s for the hardest worker or player of the game, which the guys vote for when we get in here,” explained Arnott, who at age 37 is the team’s oldest player. “It’s sure funny looking, but it’s an honor to wear it.”

Arnott gave St. Louis a 2-1 lead with 20 seconds remaining in the first period when he scored on a long slap shot that eluded goaltender Miikka Kiprusoff.

He made it 3-1 by corralling a rebound off Patrick Berglund’s shot, skating through the slot and backhanding it in during the second period.

Arnott has always played well against Calgary, scoring 29 goals in 57 career games against the Flames.

“I don’t know why that is,” he said. “We had huge battles here when I was in Edmonton. Man, it was rough and tough and any time you left this building without an ice pack or a cut or a bruise, you were doing good. They play hard, they never quit, they’ve always been like that, so it’s just good games when you come in here.”

Arnott, who entered the night with one goal in his last 13 games, is up to 15 on the season.

“He’s a guy that’s obviously been through the motions, he’s been in the playoffs, he’s won a cup, he knows what it takes and this time of year, you need guys like that,” said David Backes, who had the other goal for St. Louis.

Blues coach Ken Hitchcock says the wiener hat is indicative of the personality of his team.

“Some of the stuff that they say to each other before we go on the ice, when they introduce the lineup, is right out of ’Saturday Night Live,’ ” Hitchcock said. “We try and keep it light and loose until it’s ready to play. With this age group and the young guys that we got, you can’t pile the stress on. We don’t bring it until we absolutely have to.”

The Blues’ camaraderie has translated on the ice. St. Louis has won the first three games of its six-game road trip and is 9-3 in its last dozen games.

“We’ve got great chemistry in here … and we’ve got some key guys out for us right now that are going to help us down the stretch and in the playoffs,” said Arnott.

Curtis Glencross scored the lone goal for Calgary, 11th in the Western Conference, three points back of the eighth-place Dallas Stars.

“We went through a spell here that we had some adversity we’re dealing with and we have to handle it the right way and work ourselves through it,” Flames coach Brent Sutter said.

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The Nashville Predators didn’t need their best effort to earn another home win.

Pekka Rinne made 30 saves in leading the Predators to a 2-1 victory over the Los Angeles Kings on Monday night. Roman Josi and Patric Hornqvist scored for Nashville, which has won four of its last five.

David Legwand had two assists in the game.

“That’s a big thing with our home games starting our run here,” Legwand said. “We’ve got to be winning, and we’ve been doing that at home. That’s a positive thing for us winning at home.”

Dustin Brown had the lone goal for Los Angeles. The sliding Kings have lost five of six. They had defeated Nashville in their last three trips to Music City.

Rinne’s 35 wins this season are a career high and lead the NHL. The Predators have won 17 of their last 21 home games and are 10-0-2 in their last 12.

“Tough building to come into, tough team, good team; we pretty well matched them,” Los Angeles coach Darryl Sutter said. “We just didn’t bear down and finish our opportunities. We had some great opportunities and didn’t finish the job.”

Josi scored the game’s first goal with 1:33 left in the opening period.

From the right point, Josi sent a relatively harmless wrist shot toward the Los Angeles net. As the puck approached goaltender Jonathan Quick, it glanced off the tip of Kings defenseman Drew Doughty’s stick and between Quick’s pads before trickling across the goal line.

“It’s just part of the game; you have to find a way to overcome those bad bounces,” Quick said. “They are a good team; they work hard. We are a good team; we work hard. They must have worked a little harder than we did tonight.”

It was the rookie defenseman’s fourth goal of the season. He has four points in his last three games.

Hornqvist doubled the Nashville lead early in second, capping a wild series of events.

Newly acquired Kings forward Jeff Carter’s shot from the left circle rang off Rinne’s right goal post. Nashville took the puck up ice, and Legwand’s shot from the left side caromed off of the backboards and onto the stick of Hornqvist just off the right post. He had an easy tap-in for his 18th goal of the season.

“That’s crazy how hockey goes so fast sometimes,” Hornqvist said. “That changed the momentum from maybe being 1-1 to 2-0 and really gave us that lead that we need.”

Hornqvist played his second game after missing five with an upper-body injury.

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BUFFALO, N.Y. — Lindy Ruff left no doubt this week there was only one person who could turn Derek Roy’s disappointing season into a respectable one.

“It’s totally up to Derek,” the Sabres’ coach said.

For the second straight game, Roy showed signs he’s ready to turn around his season. Buffalo’s top-line center assisted on both goals Tuesday to help lead the Sabres to a 2-1 victory over the New York Islanders. The sellout crowd in First Niagara Center saw the Sabres win their second straight and improve to 7-3-2 in the last 12 games.

“We’ve got to win hockey games,” Roy said. “That’s all we can think about right now. It’s about working together, working hard and just winning hockey games.”

The Sabres, who started the game 14th in the Eastern Conference, moved past the Islanders and Montreal into 12th. They start today — the one-year anniversary of Terry Pegula’s ownership — six points out of a playoff spot with 22 games remaining.

“We’re happy, but at the same time we’ve got to get some more points,” Roy said. “We can’t win one, lose one anymore. We’ve got to keep winning games, put a streak together. We’ve got to gain some ground.”

Roy, who has been on pace for the worst full season of his career, extended his points streak to four games with the two-assist night. He has two goals and five helpers during the run, increasing his season totals to 13 goals and 34 points in 58 games.

“I’m skating well,” said Roy, who played just half of last season because of quadriceps surgery. “My leg’s feeling pretty good compared to the start of the season, so I’m just going to try to keep getting in my groove, keep playing hard every night.”

Roy and the Sabres needed just 1:21 to score, getting the arena crowd out of its seats just after sitting in them. Roy’s no-look backhand allowed Ville Leino to carry the puck toward the net, with rookie goaltender Kevin Poulin overreacting to the drive.

While Poulin attempted to recover from an arm flail that put him out of position and Roy’s rebound whack, Tyler Myers pulled the puck out of a scrum and deposited it into the open net. The goal was the second in three games for Myers, who extended his points streak to four straight.

The Sabres struck for the second time with 3:41 gone in the second. Roy streaked down the left side and continued behind the net. He stopped, feigned a return to the side of origin, then kept going to the far side.

He spotted Thomas Vanek in front, and the sniper had time to settle the pass and whip the puck past Poulin for his 22nd goal of the season.

“I wanted to shoot it, but the guy did a good job sliding, then I wanted to bank it off the goalie and he did a good job not giving me that play,” Roy said. “I wanted to come around the net and look for a stick, and I saw a familiar stick there. It was Thomas, and I just wanted to put it right in his wheelhouse so he could score.”

The Islanders had two prime opportunities to strike back in the second, but they were stymied by the post and the goalie standing in front of it.

The Sabres attempted to leave their zone without the puck, leaving Michael Grabner alone in the slot. He beat Ryan Miller on the glove side but clanked the post with five minutes gone.

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DALLAS — The Nashville Predators celebrated a rare victory in Dallas.

Shea Weber scored on a power play with less than a second remaining in the first period, Pekka Rinne stopped 22 shots, and the Predators beat the Dallas Stars 3-2 on Sunday night.

Nashville improved to 6-19-1 in franchise history in Dallas.

“It’s been a tough building,” Predators coach Barry Trotz said.

Weber put the Predators ahead to stay 2-1 with his 12th goal of the season, popping a loose puck into an open net with 0.2 seconds left in the first. The goal was upheld after a video review showed the puck entered the net before time expired.

“I saw it go in, I heard the horn … so I assumed it was in, but I didn’t realize how close it was,” Weber said.

The Stars won the season’s first two meetings against the Predators by a total score of 10-4. This time, the Predators dictated the kind of close-checking style they favor.

“We haven’t played well against Dallas at all this year so it was good to get the win,” Weber said.

Gabriel Bourque and Colin Wilson added even-strength goals for Nashville, 3-3-2 in its last eight after a five-game winning streak.

Michael Ryder and Alex Goligoski scored for the Stars, coming off a 2-1 overtime loss in Phoenix on Saturday night. Dallas fell to 0-9-2 on the second leg of back-to-backs this season.

“Another one-goal game,” Goligoski said. “I think for the most part, we were maybe outworked a little bit tonight. The difference is that we give them maybe a freebie there at the end of the first. … We were working hard, just not hard enough.”

Kari Lehtonen made 18 saves for the Stars, 2-4-2 in their last eight.

Dallas coach Glen Gulutzan thought his team played well in stretches, but the Stars continue to slump as they try to climb into the top eight in the West.

“As hard as it is to swallow, you’ve got to keep doing things right,” Gulutzan said. “The moment you veer away and start losing confidence, you’re in trouble. We’re doing the little things right, we’re not getting the result.”

First-line center Jamie Benn, Dallas’ only All-Star pick, missed his second straight game with a knee injury and is day-to-day.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The St. Louis Blues took the sting out of a rare loss on Wednesday by getting a rare win a night later, defeating the Nashville Predators, 3-2, in a shootout at Bridgestone Arena.

The victory, the team’s first in Nashville this season, improved the Blues’ travelogue to 11-13-3 as they played the first of six in succession on the road. The shootout was the third in five games between the two teams. And the third time was a charm for the Blues, who lost the previous two. They improved to 3-6 overall in shootouts, while Nashville dipped to 3-4.

T. J. Oshie and Andy McDonald both scored against netminder Pekka Rinne to start the duel. Blues goaltender Jaroslav Halak stopped Colin Wilson and Martin Erat to secure the extra point and finish off a resilient performance.

“It’s back-to-back games, and it’s a huge win for us tonight,” said Vladimir Sobotka, whose second-period goal tied the game 2-2.

For Halak, the win was even more gratifying. Making his first start in nine days, he turned aside 25 of 27 shots and collected his 100th career victory.

“We knew it was going to be a tight game against them,” Halak said. “Every time we play these guys, it’s either a shootout or a one-goal game. We got a little sloppy in the second period, but I think overall we did a great job. We wanted to start the road trip with a win and I’m glad we got it.”

Rinne’s sanctuary has been a tough net to crack for the Blues and the entire NHL. The Great Wall of Finland was 12-5-2 in his career against St. Louis, with a 1.84 goals-against average. In four previous starts this season, Rinne had stopped 152 of 157 Blues shots. Against the NHL as a whole, he was 17-3-2 with a 1.92 GAA and .937 save percentage since Dec. 28.

But the Blues got an early lead, thanks in part to Halak and in part to a lucky bounce. A penalty on David Perron 1 minute, 18 seconds into the game put the visitors up against it. But Halak made a couple of outstanding saves to pace a successful kill.

Moments later, the Blues got a leg up with an even-strength goal. Playing his first game in Nashville since he was a member of the Preds for four seasons, Jason Arnott pulled a backhand shot that went past Rinne, glanced off Chris Stewart’s boot, and went in.

With video corroboration from the league office, and for those who confused it with a soccer goal, referee Chris Rooney declared it a “good hockey goal.”

The goal was the second in as many games for Stewart and his 13th of the season, and it afforded the Blues a 1-0 lead four minutes in. The Blues continued to be the boss through the opening 20 minutes, out-shooting Nashville 11-0 through the middle of the stanza and denting a post with a shot by McDonald.

However, as has happened frequently, the offensively modest Blues, who are 29th in the NHL in road goals, couldn’t make the most of their superior play. The period expired with the Blues holding a 13-6 advantage in shots, but just a 1-0 edge in goals.

“I thought it was like two different games,” said Blues coach Ken Hitchcock, who ended a personal 18-game winless skid in Nashville. Before Thursday, Hitchcock’s last win at Bridgestone was on Feb. 13, 2001, as coach of the Dallas Stars.

“I thought we were better than them in the first period, the overtime and the second half of the third. They were better in the second period and first half of the third. They had more energy. We seemed to hit the wall in the second period from last night’s game.

“But man, we came back and gutted it out in the third. So it was a great, great way to start the road trip.”

The Blues lost 4-2 to Boston at Scottrade on Wednesday night, their first loss at home in 22 games and, combined with a Sunday loss at Chicago, their first back-to-back losses in regulation since October. In the process, they gave up a number of odd-man rushes. That problem bit them again as Nashville tied the score early in the second.

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RALEIGH, N.C. — Wojtek Wolski didn’t have much time to introduce himself to his new teammates after joining the Panthers following a Saturday afternoon flight from New York.

In fact, he didn’t even have time to get a new pair of shower shoes.

But boy did he ever endear himself to his latest team.

Wolski was acquired in a trade from the Rangers on Saturday afternoon and forced overtime by scoring with 1:47 remaining, as the Panthers rallied to beat the Carolina Hurricanes, 3-2, in a shootout.

“It’s always nice to contribute,” Wolski said as his Rangers bag was packed just yards away from where he stood wearing Rangers sliders with his old number in Sharpie on the top. “The biggest thing was winning. We desperately needed those two points.”

Said coach Kevin Dineen: “He is a skilled player who is going to help us.”

Florida trailed 2-0 going into the third period and looked to be on the highway to its fifth consecutive loss despite outplaying the Hurricanes for all but a few minutes of the game. Then Tomas Fleischmann and Wolski scored within four minutes and change to give the Panthers momentum — and more importantly some valuable points in the standings.

Stephen Weiss, who has two goals in the past 31 games and none in the past 11, scored the game-winner as the Panthers won in a shootout for just the fourth time in 11 tries this season.

Carolina is now 0-5 in shootouts and 2-13 in overtime.

Shootout goals might not count on the stat sheet, but Weiss could care less. Florida has now won three in a row away from Sunrise and is back atop the Southeast Division.

“They’ve been hard to come by this year,” said Weiss, who scored in the shootout along with Mikael Samuelsson. “That was a big goal for us, obviously.”

Florida jumped all over the Hurricanes and was outshooting Carolina 10-0 at one point. But the Canes went into the first-period intermission up 1-0 on Justin Faulk’s power-play goal with 1:59 left. Carolina went up 2-0 on Jussi Jokinen’s wide-open shot from the top of the slot with 2:28 remaining in the second.

After Fleischmann made it a one-goal game after one-timing a slick pass from Kris Versteeg, Wolski took a nice feed from Shawn Matthias and beat Justin Peters (42 saves). Brian Campbell almost won it in the final minute, but the teams went to overtime, where they went at it 3-on-3 after Erik Gudbranson and Eric Staal went to the box for fighting behind the Florida goal.

TRADE DAYS

Wolski was the second player Florida picked up for draft picks in as many days, with Jerred Smithson coming over from Nashville on Friday.

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WINNIPEG, Manitoba — The Winnipeg Jets had just recovered from a two-goal deficit Saturday afternoon, and St. Louis Blues coach Ken Hitchcock called a necessary timeout. As Hitchcock barked, players were forced to congregate closely because of the thunderous crowd at the MTS Center.

“We couldn’t hear that much,” Blues forward David Perron said. “But whenever the coach calls a timeout, you know exactly what he’s calling it for. It’s a wakeup call.”

The Blues awakened in the third period and won a 3-2 shootout decision over the Jets, who outshot the visitors 41-16, a season-high watermark against the NHL’s stingiest club in that department.

Blues goaltender Jaroslav Halak supplied the life raft Saturday, and Perron, who had a goal in regulation, netted the decisive shootout goal against an old friend, Winnipeg goalie Chris Mason.

The Blues knew that they had stolen a victory, pulling two points behind Central Division-leading Detroit with 83, but they were hardly apologetic for their performance after improving to 2-0 on a six-game trip that continues Monday in Calgary.

“The third game in 31/2 days in this league with this travel, our goalie was our best player and he needed to be,” Hitchcock said. “This was a very, very difficult travel situation that we got in, and I’m really happy that we won the hockey game.”

After starting the season 1-6 in shootouts, the Blues won their third in a row Saturday and have converted five of their past eight attempts. After a 3-2 shootout win Thursday in Nashville, the club found itself in another shootout after blowing the 2-0 lead to the Jets.

Despite being outshot 16-6 in the first period, the Blues led on goals by David Backes with 12:17 left and Perron with 43 seconds remaining.

T.J. Oshie, who had five of the Blues’ 15 hits in the first period, set up Backes’ team-leading 18th goal after leveling Winnipeg’s Chris Thorburn. Oshie then went for a wraparound attempt, and when puck shot out to Backes, the captain wasted no time lighting the lamp.

“That’s textbook, the way we need to play—deep puck, we check it, get it back, get it to the front of the net, those guys do all the work and I’ve got an empty net,” Backes said.

Oshie also set up Perron’s 12th goal of the season, feeding Patrik Berglund. The Blues center then sent a backhanded centering pass to Perron, who used his quick hands by going backhand to forehand and beating Mason.

But in the second period, Winnipeg’s Blake Wheeler put on a show, scoring twice to pull the Jets into the game. Wheeler’s 12th and 13th goals of the season came on rebounds after Halak made the initial save.

“He got my number tonight,” Halak said. “They were shooting from everywhere, especially the first two periods.”

Winnipeg outshot the Blues 17-4 in the second period, giving the Jets a 34-10 advantage after two periods.

“For the most part, we weren’t ready for pucks,” Blues defenseman Barret Jackman said. “We were getting outworked in some one-on-one battles. It just gave them a lot of momentum and they kept coming. They played with a lot of speed, and their D jumped up and gave us some coverage fits. But Jaro was unbelievable again.”

The timeout after Wheeler’s second goal with 4:46 left in the second period helped.

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SAN JOSE, Calif. — When it came down to it, the Sharks weren’t about to let the Chicago Blackhawks get well at their expense.

Benn Ferriero’s seventh goal of the season Friday night at HP Pavilion held up as his fourth game-winner as a San Jose team that lost its two previous games held off Chicago 5-3, sending the Blackhawks to their seventh consecutive defeat.

Power-play goals by Justin Braun, Dan Boyle and Jamie McGinn sparked the San Jose offense with Joe Thornton also beating Chicago goalie Corey Crawford. The Blackhawks got two goals from Marcus Kruger and one from Bryan Bickell, but goalie Antti Niemi made 30 saves to earn his 23rd win of the season.

The Sharks jumped out to an early 2-0 lead on two power-play goals in the first period — and it could have been an even wider margin if an apparent score by Logan Couture wasn’t waived off after goalie interference called against Patrick Marleau.

Braun got on the scoreboard first, one-timing a feed from Couture at 1:58 with Michael Frolik serving a four-minute penalty for high-sticking Joe Pavelski.

Boyle then made it 2-0 at 11:36 when he potted a rebound of a shot by Couture while three Blackhawks and two Sharks were serving roughing penalties after things got a little nasty in front of both benches.

The Blackhawks, however, didn’t roll over, first taking momentum away from the Sharks and then knotting things up on the scoreboard.

Both of Kruger’s goals came in similar style as he parked himself outside the crease and was able to get to loose pucks before any of the Sharks around him. He made it 2-1 at 6:55 when a blast from the blue line by Nick Leddy hit the post and tied the game exactly three minutes later when he got his stick on the rebound of a shot by Brent Seabrook.

Still, the Sharks emerged with a 3-2 lead after two periods when Thornton’s centering pass from behind the goal line hit the outstretched stick of rookie defenseman Dylan Olsen and skittered into the Chicago net behind Crawford.

Chicago tied it again at 2:15 into the third period when a pass from behind the San Jose net went through two defenders and onto Bickell’s stick. But the Sharks got that one back at 5:40 when hard work by Brad Winchester got the puck to Ferriero just outside the crease and he banged it home.

McGinn scored an insurance goal at 14:04 as the Sharks scored three power-play goals for the first time since opening night.

—Boyle was back in the lineup after surviving a bout with the stomach flu that swept through his family.

“My parents were here and they both had it, my daughters and my wife had it. Not sure what it was, but it ran its course,” said Boyle, who sat out Wednesday night’s game. “I was the last one to get it so something has to be said about that.”

He said he felt good enough to watch his team lose 4-3 to Calgary and while that was a challenge — “It’s always tough to watch regardless, but especially the first 15 minutes were pretty ugly” — it was also an eye-opening reminder of how involved in each game his father, who divides the year between Ottawa and Florida, can get.

“It was actually interesting, more than anything, watching a game with my dad, which I hadn’t done in a long time,” Boyle said. “He gets pretty fired up and I feel sorry for my mom, let me tell you.

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