The Blackhawks acquired veteran center Brendan Morrison in the Calgary Flames on Friday in return for minor-league defenseman John Connelly.

Morrison, 36, has four goals and 11 points in 28 games for that Flames this year - he came back towards the selection on Saturday after missing two days by having an upper-body injuries. The Hawks is going to be his seventh NHL team since entering the League with Nj, which required him within the second round from the 1993 NHL Draft. He performed four seasons in the College of Michigan before joining the Demons in 1997.

Morrison has 200 goals, 401 assists and 446 penalty minutes in 923 regular-season games -- he obtained his 200th NHL goal on Jan. 1. His best NHL season arrived 2002-03, as he had 25 goals and 71 points for that Vancouver Canucks.

Connelly, 25, has performed with Chicago's AHL affiliate, the Rockford IceHogs, after signing using the Hawks early in the year of 2009 following three seasons at Colorado College. The Five-feet-11, 185-pound native of Bloomington, Minn., set franchise record for scoring with a defenseman last season with 11 goals and 41 assists for 51 points he'd five goals and 31 assists in 44 games with Rockford this year and was selected to participate in the AHL All-Star Game.

"Once we forecasted our line-up moving forward we felt it would be a challenge for all of us to locate a place for Brendan or get him significant ice-time," Flames GM Jay Feaster. "Given his pending UFA status cheap i was not likely to re-sign him, we felt it important to try and move him for an additional resource. In John Connelly we have a 25-year-old highly trained AHL All-Star defenseman who's still the best prospect. We're excited to possess John within the organization."

There is not a far more confident team within the NHL compared to Colorado Avalanche if this involves shootouts.

Despite giving up a late third-period goal that sent Monday night's game to overtime, the Avalanche responded having a 3-2 win from the Philadelphia Flyers, their sixth shootout victory in as numerous attempts this year.

"This isn't how you wish to go, but it sometimes takes 65 minutes or maybe more to obtain a win," stated Avalanche goalkeeper Jean-Sebastien Giguere, who stopped 31 shots through overtime. "Two points are two points."

The 3 Avalanche forwards -- Milan Hejduk, Matt Duchene and Ryan O’Reilly -- obtained against Flyers goalkeeper Ilya Bryzgalov within the shootout. Danny Briere and James van Riemsdyk netted goals for that Flyers, however the Avalanche acquired the additional point when Giguere forced Matt Read to fireplace his shot from the left publish, acquiring Colorado's sixth consecutive home win.

"I suppose when you are getting three goals inside a shootout like that you ought to certainly obtain the win," stated Giguere, who viewed Semyon Varlamov win the team's first five shootouts. "It had not been pretty during my finish, but I'll go ahead and take win."

The Avalanche have won nine shootouts consecutively returning to last season and 17 of history 18.

Losing avoided the Flyers from keeping pace with Boston to find the best place within the Eastern Conference. The Bruins, who routed the Flyers 6- on Saturday, defeated Montreal on Monday and lead Philadelphia by some point (45-44).

The Flyers did salvage a place by tying the overall game 2-2 when Wayne Simmonds obtained in the fringe of the crease off a behind-the-internet feed from Danny Briere with 18.1 seconds left in regulation throughout a mad scramble in-front with Bryzgalov around the bench for any sixth skater.

"There have been plenty of physiques in the internet and that i did not know in which the puck was any longer," Giguere stated. "Everyone was crashes the internet plus they compensated the cost and also got an objective.Inch

Stated Briere: "In some way the puck returned behind everybody and i believe Giguere was searching another way. I simply went round the other way and wrapped it around (for Simmonds)."

It had been the 2nd time per week the Avalanche won a shootout after enabling a late goal. Colorado defeated San Jose 4-3 last Tuesday after quitting an objective to Patrick Marleau with 22 seconds to participate in the third period.

"It had been a genuine large two points for all of us,Inch Avalanche coach Joe Sacco stated. "We still build something here pretty strong in your own home. We win inside a shootout despite quitting a late goal. Will still be an excellent win from the team leading the NHL in goals we held these to one goal before the final seconds. They are among the top teams within the Eastern Conference too, therefore it is satisfying."

The Avalanche obtained two times within the second period to consider a couple-1 add goals by rookie Gabriel Landeskog and T.J. Galiardi.

Landeskog, who had not obtained since November. 8, bumped the puck behind Bryzgalov at 12:26 to tie the score. Shane O'Brien fired the puck from 45 ft, Landeskog cradled it on his stick in-front and walked around Bryzgalov all-in-one motion before sliding it home for his first goal in 19 games.

"I had been screaming my mind off there," Landeskog stated. "I would the internet and that he in some way saw me or heard me. It's liberating to place the puck within the internet, especially in your own home. It comes down lower to spending so much time. If you are not scoring goals you need to keep shooting the puck and spending so much time, and that is what I have been attempting to do."

Galiardi was credited using the go-ahead goal with 43.3 seconds remaining at that time. Rookie Kaira Malone put the puck in-front also it returned two skates, the very first owned by Flyers left wing Tom Sestito after which off Galiardi's skate past a startled Bryzgalov.

"We were not pleased with our second period," Briere stated. "The Avs required it to us, especially my line. We gave them the very first goal due to an error by me lower low. We desired to try to get we in the overall game. It required a very long time, more than we wanted."

The Flyers required single- lead within the first period on the energy-play goal by Scott Hartnell at 18:30 after Landeskog was evaluated a double-minor for cutting Flyers defenseman Kimmo Timonen having a high stick. The Flyers required benefit of a couple-on-1 lower low when Jakub Voracek passed across to Hartnell around the left side for any nick shot past Giguere.

Hartnell's goal clicked the Flyers' -for-13 slump on energy plays, but Philadelphia unsuccessful for connecting on three more guy advantages Monday, including one half way with the third period.