Saturday, November 30, 2002
EDS: CORRECTS reference to Colorado winless streak to a 2-0-4 record, 10th graf
By The Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA -- Toronto's Ed Belfour took the lead in shutouts among active NHL goaltenders with 62 as the Maple Leafs blanked the Philadelphia Flyers 3-0 on Friday.
Belfour made 21 saves as he passed Colorado's Patrick Roy for career shutouts and recorded his second shutout against the Flyers in six days. He beat Philadelphia 6-0 last Saturday in Toronto.
Belfour, in his 17th NHL season and first with the Maple Leafs, is tied with Turk Broda for 11th place on the career list. He has four shutouts this season and three in his last five games.
Aki Berg, with his first goal in over a year, Nik Antropov and Mikael Renberg scored for the Leafs, who have won three of their last four games.
Bruins 4, Canadiens 2
BOSTON -- For two periods, the Bruins played like the team Montreal bounced from the playoffs last season. Then the team that has dominated the Eastern Conference this season showed up.
Michal Grosek broke a tie with his first goal of the season in the first game between the teams since the Canadiens stunned the top-seeded Bruins in the first round of the playoffs.
The Bruins are 7-2 in games decided by two goals or fewer, including a 5-1 mark in one-goal games.
Grosek's goal came just 1 1/2 minutes after Montreal's Richard Zednik made it 2-2 with his second score of the game and 12th of the season.
Avalanche 2, Wild 2
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Antti Laaksonen's third-period goal lifted the Wild into the tie. Laaksonen picked off an errant pass by Avalanche defenseman Bryan Muir and got off a wrist shot for his seventh goal of the season.
Colorado is 2-0-4 in its last six games.
Avalanche center Peter Forsberg, who scored a goal, left in the second period with a groin injury.
Kings 2, Mighty Ducks 2
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Keith Carney had a goal and an assist and Niclas Havelid also scored as the Mighty Ducks rallied. The freeway foes are tied for second place in the Pacific Division.
The tie was Anaheim's third straight during its five-game winless streak.
Jean-Sebastien Giguere stopped 23 shots by the Kings, who got goals from Bryan Smolinski and Eric Belanger. It was the fifth straight game in which Los Angeles was held to two goals.