AROUND THE NHL

AROUND THE NHL
Friday's other games
Sabres 6, Hurricanes 3
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- J.P. Dumont and Miroslav Satan each had two goals and an assist as Buffalo beat Carolina to snap a franchise-worst seven-game losing streak.
Stu Barnes and Curtis Brown also scored for Buffalo, which won for the first time since beating Boston 4-2 on Dec. 18.
Rod Brind'Amour, Bates Battaglia and Jeff O'Neill had goals for Carolina, which lost its fourth straight game and hasn't won since a 1-0 victory over Dallas on Dec. 22.
With the game tied 3-3, Barnes scored the go-ahead goal 7:27 into the third period when he took a pass from Dumont and fired it past Kevin Weekes.
Coyotes 4, Red Wings 1
DETROIT (AP) -- Sean Burke made 40 saves and Ladislav Nagy had a goal and two assists as the Phoenix Coyotes snapped the Detroit Red Wings' nine-game unbeaten streak with a 4-1 victory Friday night.
Mike Johnson, Ramzi Abid and Daymond Langkow also scored for the Coyotes, who have won four in a row.
Sean Avery had the goal for Detroit, which came in 6-0-3 in its previous nine.
Nagy broke a 1-1 tie with 1:47 left in the second period when he put a rebound over Curtis Joseph.
Johnson made it 3-1 when he put in Nagy's rebound 5:35 into the third. Langkow added a goal with 1:49 left.
Avery had tied it at 1 for Detroit with 3:53 left in the second when he scored on a one-timer from the slot.
Phoenix scored the only goal of the first when Abid took advantage of a pass that bounced away from Detroit defenseman Mathieu Dandenault in the corner and shot the puck into an empty net. Joseph had gone into the opposite corner to play the puck and his pass bounced away from Dandenault to Abid.
Burke stopped Sergei Fedorov on a short-handed break away with a little more than five minutes left in the first period.
It was Burke's fourth-straight victory since returning from a sprained ankle.
Notes: Detroit D Chris Chelios didn't play because of a leg injury. ... Burke passed the 40,000-minute mark for his career. ... Avery has three goals and an assist in his last four games. ... Detroit gave up more than two goals for the first time since Dec. 14, a span of eight games ... Dandenault took a shot off the knee and limped off the ice with a little more than two minutes remaining.
Islanders 8, Bruins 4
By IRA PODELL
AP Sports Writer
UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) -- Mark Parrish scored two of New York's four first-period goals and then added a third as the Islanders stretched their winning streak to five with a 8-4 victory over the Boston Bruins on Friday night.
Parrish completed his fourth career hat trick to make it 7-3 with 30.9 seconds left in the middle period, causing a cascade of orange hats -- given out to fans. The second period ended prematurely so the ice could be cleaned, and the remaining time was added to the third.
New York (17-16-5) is over .500 for the first time this season, while enjoying its longest winning run this season. The Islanders, who scored six times on their first 12 shots, needed overtime in their last two wins, but they started putting the Bruins away in the first 20 minutes.
Jason Blake had two goals, Dave Scatchard, Alexei Yashin and Mattias Weinhandl also scored for the Islanders, who got a season-high in goals and 39 saves from Chris Osgood.
Glen Murray scored twice to reach 20 goals for the fourth time, and Jozef Stumpel and Michal Grosek also scored for the Bruins, who lost for the third time in four games and are 2-8-1 in their last 11.
The Islanders, outshot 43-35, scored three times on their first four shots and built a 4-2 lead. They stretched the advantage to 6-2 early in the second, scoring twice on their first three shots in that period.
Murray's second goal cut it to 6-3 at 11:27 of the second. Blake's second goal, scored short-handed, made it 8-3 at 3:27 of the third. Grosek closed the scoring 56 seconds later.
Boston goalie John Grahame had only himself to blame on New York's first goal. He sent a clearing attempt right onto the stick of Blake, who fired a shot into the vacated net at 1:22.
Just 1:33 later, Parrish made it 2-0 on New York's third shot -- leading Bruins coach Robbie Ftorek to use his timeout.
Boston cut it to 2-1 when Joe Thornton was a faceoff to Murray, who ripped in a shot at 11:04. Thornton, who slipped into a second-place tie in the NHL scoring race, earned his first point in four games -- matching his worst slump this season.
The Islanders got that one back 1:44 later when Yashin hit the post, but Parrish popped the rebound in for a power-play goal on New York's fourth shot.
Stumpel scored his first in 13 games to make it 3-2 at 16:49.
But the Islanders needed just 2:19 to build the lead back to two goals as Scatchard tipped in Roman Hamrlik's pass with 52 seconds left in the first.
Notes: Ivan Huml, who assisted on Stumpel's goal, returned after missing two games because of bruised ribs. ... Thornton, who received a major for charging in the second period, also went without a point for three games from Oct. 19-24. It is the third time this season he has gone four games without a goal. ... Boston fell to 19-2-2 when scoring at least three goals.
Devils 2, Maple Leafs 0
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) -- Corey Schwab made 17 saves for his fifth career shutout to lead the New Jersey Devils to a 2-0 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Friday night.
Jari Bicek broke a scoreless deadlock midway through the second period, and Patrik Elias added an insurance goal with 1:29 remaining.
Schwab, a former Maple Leaf, got the start when Martin Brodeur got a night off after making 11 straight starts. Schwab last played Dec. 7 in a 1-0 loss to the Maple Leafs in Toronto.
The Maple Leafs suffered their first regulation loss in eight games (4-1-2-1).
The teams meet again Saturday night in Toronto to complete the home-and-home series.
Bicek took a pass from Elias just inside the Toronto zone and whipped a shot that hit Ed Belfour in the shoulder and went under the crossbar at 8:59 for his first goal of the season.
Bicek has two NHL goals, and both have come against Toronto.
The Devils took nine first-period shots at Belfour, who made point-blank stops on Bicek and Scott Niedermayer.
The closest the Devils came to scoring a goal didn't count as a shot when John Madden threw a sharp-angle centering pass from the corner that glanced off the post.
Toronto didn't muster much pressure in the first period, with only four shots on Schwab.
The Maple Leafs blew a golden opportunity to pull even late in the second period when a wide-open Travis Green fanned in the slot on a perfect setup from Darcy Tucker.
In the third, the Devils limited the Leafs to only six shots. Schwab stopped Tom Fitzgerald from right in front about three minutes into the period.
Notes: The injury-ravaged Maple Leafs called up forwards Alexei Ponikarovsky and Aaron Gavey from the St. John's Maple Leafs (AHL) on Friday. Ponikarovsky made his season debut after scoring 11 goals and 11 assists in 35 games for St. John's. He played eight games with Toronto last year and scored two goals. Gavey was not in uniform. ... Toronto's Alexander Mogilny returned after missing one game with back spasms. He helped offset the absences of C Mats Sundin (sore shoulder), C Nik Antropov (upper arm injury) and D Karel Pilar (flu). ... The Devils scratched D Oleg Tverdovsky, who suffered a relapse of the flu that sidelined him two games in late December.