Devils 6, Islanders 1.

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) Brian Rolston and Patrik Elias (EHL'-ee-ahsh) each had two goals and two assists and Martin Brodeur (mar-TAN' broh-DYOOR') made 22 saves to lead the New Jersey Devils to a 6-1 win over the New York Islanders.

Mike Mottau and Zach Parise had the other New Jersey goals.

Parise extended his career-high point scoring streak to 10 games.

The Devils extended their home-ice winning streak to six.

Brodeur was back in net one day after setting a record for minutes played by a goaltender.

Richard Park scored the Islanders goal, beating Brodeur with a shot from above the right circle at 11:18.

Sabres 5, Hurricanes 1.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) Ryan Miller made 30 saves, and the Buffalo Sabres scored five goals in the third period to keep the Carolina Hurricanes winless on the road with a 5-1 victory.

Up by a goal after 40 minutes, the Hurricanes were unable to preserve a third-period lead for the second straight night. Atlanta erased a three-goal deficit Friday by scoring five goals in the final frame against Carolina in a 6-4 win.

Thomas Vanek, Derek Roy and Jochen Hecht had a goal and assist each, and Mike Grier and Clarke MacArthur also scored for the Sabres (14-7-2), who won their second straight.

Matt Cullen scored, and Michael Leighton made 19 saves for the lethargic Hurricanes (5-16-5), who remain the NHL's lone team without a win away from home (0-10-3).

Thrashers 1, Flyers 0.

ATLANTA (AP) Johan Hedberg made 34 saves for his first shutout in two years the Atlanta Thrashers stopped a 14-game losing streak against the Philadelphia Flyers, 1-0.

Rich Peverley scored his 10th goal, his sixth on the power play, midway through the second and helped the Thrashers overcome a sluggish third period.

Ending what was the NHL's longest current losing streak against one opponent, the Thrashers won their third straight overall. They have just 12 points at Philips Arena, however, after starting the game with the league's third-fewest points total at home.

Philadelphia has lost two straight and five of six. The Flyers hadn't lost to Atlanta since Nov. 18, 2005.

While his teammates managed only 17 shots on goal, including just three in the third, Hedberg stopped 13 shots in the final 20 minutes for his 12th career shutout.

Bruins 4, Senators 3, SO.

BOSTON (AP) Michael Ryder scored the lone goal in the shootout, lifting the Boston Bruins to a 4-3 comeback victory over the Ottawa Senators.

It was the fifth win in six games and sixth straight over the past two seasons against Ottawa for the Bruins, who moved into first place in the Northeast Division after an injury-filled, sluggish start this season.

Ottawa's Milan Michalek forced overtime, scoring his second goal of the game with 19.3 seconds left and the goalie off for an extra attacker.

Ryder also had one of Boston's three power-play goals. Dennis Wideman and David Krejci had the other two for the Bruins, who overcame an early 2-0 deficit.

Capitals 4, Canadiens 3, SO.

MONTREAL (AP) Nicklas Backstrom scored the only shootout goal on Washington's third attempt to give the Capitals a 4-3 victory over the Montreal Canadiens.

Semyon Varlamov (sehm-YAHN' vahr-LAH'-mawv) stopped Montreal shooters Mike Cammalleri, Maxim Lapierre and Tomas Plekanec.

Backstrom secured the win when he put a shot past Carey Price, who had stopped Tomas Fleischmann and Alexander Ovechkin.

Eric Fehr (fair) scored his second goal of the game to draw Washington even at 3 with 11.4 seconds remaining in regulation.

Flames 4, Blue Jackets 3. SO.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) Calgary backup Curtis McElhinney stopped Anton Stralman in the fourth round, and Jamie Lundmark followed with the shootout winner in the Flames' 4-3 comeback victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets.

With the Blue Jackets seemingly in control late in the third period with a 3-1 lead, Calgary's Dustin Boyd and Nigel Dawes scored in a 1:19 span to tie it.

Making only his second start, McElhinney made 29 saves to push the Flames' road points streak to nine games. The Flames, playing the second game of a six-game trip, are 9-1-3 on the road.

Rick Nash and Marc Methot scored 1:03 apart late in the second period to give Columbus the lead. The Blue Jackets have lost a season-worst five in a row.

Olli Jokinen had a goal and assist, and Jarome Iginla had two assists for Calgary.

Jared Boll also scored, and Kristian Huselius added two assists for Columbus, returning home after a five-game trip.

Penguins 8, Rangers 3.

PITTSBURGH (AP) Sidney Crosby had his fourth career hat trick and added two assists for his second five-point game and the Pittsburgh Penguins won for the fourth time in five games, 8-3 over the New York Rangers.

Crosby fell a point short of his career high for points. He had six points with a goal and five assists Dec. 13, 2006, in an 8-4 win at Philadelphia.

Crosby scored once in the first and twice in the third period and added two-first period assists to help the Penguins rout the Rangers, winless in regulation at Mellon Arena in their past 13 tries.

Evgeni Malkin, Max Talbot, Mark Eaton, Pascal Dupuis and Tyler Kennedy also scored for Pittsburgh, which has won six of eight and remained tied with Washington atop the Eastern Conference standings with 36 points.

Defensemen Marc Staal, Matt Gilroy and Michal Rozsival scored for New York, which has lost four of six and is 6-12-1 since a 7-1 start.

Predators 4, Panthers 1.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) J.P. Dumont and David Legwand scored early in the third period, and Dan Ellis made 23 saves to help the Nashville Predators beat the Florida Panthers 4-1.

Dan Hamhuis and Joel Ward also scored for Nashville, coming off a 3-1 home loss Friday night that snapped their winning streak at seven games.

Jordan Leopold scored for the Panthers.

Red Wings 4, Blues 3, SO.

ST. LOUIS (AP) Todd Bertuzzi beat Chris Mason high with a backhander in the fourth round of the shootout to give the Detroit Red Wings a 4-3 victory over St. Louis.

Detroit's Pavel Datsyuk and St. Louis' Andy McDonald also scored in the tiebreaker, both in the first round.

Henrik Zetterberg had a goal and an assist, Tomas Holmstrom and Kris Draper added goals and Jimmy Howard made 32 saves to help Detroit snap a three-game losing streak.

Holmstrom's power-play goal at 2:35 of the third period ended Detroit's scoreless streak at 175 minutes, 57 seconds.

David Backes had a goal and an assist for St. Louis, and Roman Polak and Brad Boyes also scored. David Perron had two assists, and Mason stopped 33 shots.

Stars 4, Lightning 3, OT.

DALLAS (AP) Tom Wandell scored at 2:12 of overtime to give the Dallas Stars a 4-3 victory over Tampa Bay.

Tampa Bay rallied from two goals down to send it to overtime, and Wandell ended it with a sharp-angle shot from the edge of the right circle off Loui Eriksson's pass.

Stephane Robidas and Jere Lehtinen scored power-play goals during a 71-second span of the second period, and Brenden Morrow added a third-period power-play goal to give Dallas a 3-1 edge.

But Dallas couldn't hold the lead with less than 5 minutes left in regulation as the Lightning tied it on goals by Steve Stamkos and Jeff Halpern in a stretch of 47 seconds.

Wild 3, Avalanche 2, SO.

DENVER (AP) Mikko Koivu (MEE'-koh KOY'-voo) and Andrew Ebbett scored in the shootout, and Josh Harding stopped both of Colorado's shooters to help the Minnesota Wild beat the Avalanche 3-2 for a home-and-home sweep.

Eric Belanger and Guillamume Latendresse scored in regulation, and Harding made 20 saves for Minnesota, which beat Colorado 5-3 on Friday night in St. Paul.

Craig Anderson made 34 saves, and Matt Duchene and Matt Hendricks scored for Colorado. The Avalanche have lost five of of their last six games.

Canucks 7, oilers 3.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) Christian Ehrhoff, Alex Burrows, Mason Raymond and Daniel Sedin scored in the first 8:25 to pace the Vancouver Canucks to a 7-3 victory over the Edmonton Oilers.

Tanner Glass scored with 16.7 seconds left in the first period as the Canucks jumped quickly on an injury-ravaged Oilers team that played the night before.

Colin McDonald, with his first NHL goal in his second game, and Dustin Penner scored 64 seconds apart early in the second period to pull the Oilers within two. But defenseman Alex Edler scored his first of the season on a power play 5 minutes later, and Mikael Samuelsson added another power-play goal midway through the third period as Vancouver went 4-for-5 with the man advantage.

Kings 2, Blackhawks 1, SO.

LOS ANGELES (AP) Anze Kopitar and Jack Johnson scored in the first two rounds of a shootout and Jonathan Quick stopped both Chicago attempts, leading the Los Angeles Kings to a 2-1 victory over the Blackhawks.

Quick finished with 32 saves, and Wayne Simmonds scored early in the second period.

The Kings spent the final 1:02 of overtime killing off a hooking penalty against Drew Doughty and then went to work against former Los Angeles goalie Cristobal Huet.

Kopitar faked Huet to his left before sliding the puck between his legs, then Johnson made an identical move before flipping the puck over Huet's glove. Quick stopped Jonathan Towes who scored in regulation and Patrick Kane at the other end.

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