Islanders 3, Maple Leafs 1
Islanders 3, Maple Leafs 1
UNIONDALE, N.Y. -- Mark Parrish scored the game-winning goal for the second straight night as New York snapped the Toronto's point streak at 16 games.
Toronto went 14-0-1-1 since their previous loss in regulation on Nov. 20 at Edmonton. The run tied the longest in the NHL since the 1999-00 season, when points were first awarded for overtime losses.
Parrish, who scored in overtime Friday to beat New Jersey, calmly controlled a rebound in front of Ed Belfour and steered it into the open right side of the net 4:34 into the third period.
Mattias Weinhandl also scored for New York, which has won six straight at home and is 8-2-0-1 since a seven-game losing streak. Toronto had its road unbeaten streak snapped at eight games (7-0-1), one short of the team record set in the 1947-48 season.
Parrish added an empty-net goal with 6.1 seconds left to seal it. Former Islanders captain Bryan McCabe slammed the puck back into the Toronto net in frustration as New York celebrated.
The Islanders have handed Toronto two of its seven regulation losses this season, winning twice at home.
Sabres 3, Capitals 1
WASHINGTON -- The Buffalo Sabres had a simple game plan, one that worked to near perfection: Don't do anything stupid.
Miroslav Satan had a goal and two assists, and the Sabres deftly dodged the Washington Capitals' stellar power-play unit.
Daniel Briere scored the tiebreaking goal with 15:41 left for the Sabres, and Jochen Hecht added an empty-net goal in the final minute.
But the key was the smart play of the Sabres, who were called for only two penalties and faced the league's second-ranked power play for a mere two minutes.
Canadiens 2, Hurricanes 1, OT
RALEIGH, N.C. -- Sean Hill broke Carolina's power-play slump, scoring twice with the man advantage in leading the Hurricanes to an overtime victory.
Hill's game-winner came three seconds after Andrei Markov was called for a cross check on Jeff O'Neill 35 seconds into OT. Ron Francis won the draw and Hill blasted a high shot over the glove of Jose Theodore.
Carolina had been scoreless on its last 26 power plays -- including 18 in a row under new coach Peter Laviolette -- before Hill's low wrist shot with the man advantage beat Theodore with 4:32 left in the second period.
Hill had gone 33 games without a goal before scoring on consecutive nights. He notched his first of the season in a 3-1 loss at Buffalo on Friday night.
Richard Zednik scored on a Montreal power play six minutes into the third, one-timing a shot from the slot past Kevin Weekes to tie the score.
Zednik's 12th of the season tied Sheldon Souray for the team lead.
Panthers 3, Mighty Ducks 2
SUNRISE, Fla. -- Olli Jokinen scored on the power play 9:28 into the third period and Roberto Luongo made 34 saves as the Florida Panthers came back from a two-goal deficit.
Jokinen scored his 12th goal of the season when he beat Jean-Sebastian Giguere to the glove side. Anaheim has now lost six straight on the road and is winless in 13 consecutive road games.
The Panthers tied the game at 2-all with less than a minute left in the second period, when Marcus Nilson tapped the puck past Giguere. Jay Bouwmeester had hit the post with a shot just before Nilson scored and the rebound came to a rest just inches from the goal line.
Matt Cullen pulled Florida to 2-1 when he beat Giguere, who finished with 37 saves, six minutes into the second period.
It was the first time that Florida has scored more than two goals in the past six games.
Craig Johnson provided Anaheim with the early lead 9:26 into the first period. Johnson collected his own rebound in front of the net and put a shot past Luongo. It was Johnson's first goal in 32 games this season.
Sergei Fedorov gave Anaheim a 2-0 lead less than five minutes into the second period. Vitaly Vishnevski's pass pulled Luongo out of position and Fedorov sent the puck into the open net.
Lightning 4, Bruins 2
TAMPA, Fla. -- Martin St. Louis scored two of Tampa Bay's team-record three short-handed goals and assisted on the third to help the Lightning beat Boston.
St. Louis became the first player with three short-handed points since Nov. 18, 2000, when Marian Hossa and Radek Bonk each did it for Ottawa against Florida. The NHL record is four, set by Keith Tkachuk on April 7, 1995, for Winnipeg against Vancouver.
Vincent Lecavalier and Brad Richards also scored to help the Lightning snap a five-game home winless streak and win for only the second time in nine games.
Former Lightning left wing Rob Zamuner and Glen Murray scored for Boston, winless in its last six games and 1-6-4-1 in its last 12.
Lecavalier, who had only two goals in his previous 17 games, opened the scoring off a rebound with 1:55 left in the first period.
Boston nearly tied it late in the period, but Travis Green's point-blank wrister from the slot was gloved by Lightning goalie John Grahame, who finished with 17 saves.
St. Louis then scored twice in an 11-minute span of the second period, giving Tampa Bay a 3-0 lead. His slap shot from outside the left circle got through a crowd and beat Raycroft at 5:28, and he scored on a breakaway at 16:15.
Zamuner scored his third goal of the season at 17:58 of the second and Murray got his 12th at 1:32 of the third, but the Bruins managed only one other shot in the next 15 minutes.
Richards' fifth goal of the season with 59 seconds left sealed the win for Tampa Bay.
-- Associated Press
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