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Islanders 4, Mighty Ducks 1
UNIONDALE, N.Y. -- Alexei Yashin scored the Islanders' third goal on just their eighth shot to chase Anaheim goalie Martin Gerber and send New York to a victory.
Jason Blake and Oleg Kvasha had New York's goals in the first period, when the team had only five shots, and Yashin made it 3-0 at 4:50 of the second against Gerber.
Gerber is the backup to Jean-Sebastien Giguere, the playoff MVP of last season, but started for the fourth straight game. He allowed only four goals in his previous three games, going 2-0-1.
But on Saturday, his goals-against average jumped from an NHL-leading 1.38 to 1.82.
Giguere relieved after Yashin's goal and saw his first action since a 5-2 home loss to Buffalo on Oct. 24. He allowed Trent Hunter's goal at 2:00 of the third period and finished with 11 saves on 12 shots.
He started this season 1-5 and gave up 19 goals in those games. Giguere's slow start combined with Gerber's hot streak to keep the $5 million-a-year goalie on the bench in favor of the one earning $500,000 this season.
Ducks coach Mike Babcock hadn't decided before Saturday's game who would start in goal Sunday at Chicago, the fourth game of a six-game road trip.
Rob Niedermayer scored Anaheim's goal, his fifth, beating Rick DiPietro at 6:06 of the second period to make it 3-1.
Blake gave New York a 1-0 lead just 4:20 in when he banked a shot from behind the net in off Gerber's leg for his fourth goal.
Kvasha made it 2-0 at 16:34 on the same power-play shift in which he earlier hit the post. The Islanders ran the same triangle play to set up each scoring chance. Roman Hamrlik made a pass from the blue line to the left circle to Mariusz Czerkawski, who quickly found Kvasha open at the right post.
Czerkawski also set up Yashin's third goal on a two-on-one. Yashin took a pass from Czerkawski and fired a shot that trickled behind Gerber as he was leaning back on his skates.
Niedermayer scored Anaheim's seventh power-play goal in six games, but Hunter restored the three-goal lead.
DiPietro made 17 saves for the Islanders, 4-1 at home.
Notes: The Islanders killed five of six short-handed situations. They have the NHL's best penalty-killing unit, denying 44 of 48 chances. ... Anaheim had only two power-play goals in its first six games. ... The Mighty Ducks are 4-2-1-1 following an 0-4 start. ... Anaheim D Keith Carney made his season debut; he broke his right foot in the preseason.
Devils 4, Avalanche 3
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Jeff Friesen gave all the credit to Michael Rupp for his unassisted game-winning goal.
Friesen scored with 5:27 remaining to give the New Jersey Devils a victory over the Colorado Avalanche.
"Michael drove to the net and backed the defense up," Friesen said. "It froze their goalie, with that big body going to the net. I got it on net, and it found a way to go in off the post."
Friesen had picked up the puck in the neutral zone and skated into the Avalanche zone. He pulled up at the top of the right circle and fired the shot past goaltender David Aebischer.
"Aebischer was probably thinking different when he saw Rupp going to the net," Devils coach Pat Burns said. "He cheated over to one side and that opened the hole for the goal."
The goal capped a frantic third period that started with the teams deadlocked at 2. The Stanley Cup champions took a 3-2 lead on White's goal at 9:30, only to see Hedjuk pull Colorado even at 13:51. Friesen got the deciding goal 42 seconds later.
"We got a little bit sloppy in the third," Aebischer said. "That wound up costing us in the end."
Colorado coach Tony Granato agreed that poor play proved costly against the Devils.
"They thrive on that and that's what they're built on," Granato said. "When we did make a mistake, it was in the back of our net."
Scott Niedermayer, Scott Gomez and Colin White also scored for the Devils, which won its second straight game at home after opening the season 0-3-1 in New Jersey. Martin Brodeur made 20 saves to preserve the win.
Joe Sakic, Alex Tanguay and Milan Hedjuk had Colorado's goals. The Avalanche got Teemu Selanne back in the lineup, but were without Peter Forsberg.
Selanne returned after missing one game because of a swollen knee. Forsberg sat out due to a groin injury and is day-to-day.
Gomez scored the lone goal of the second period to make it 2-2. He beat Avalanche defenseman Martin Skoula to the rebound of Brian Rafalski's shot and netted his first goal of the season at 9:18.
Tanguay scored with 3.1 seconds remaining in the first period to give Colorado a 2-1 lead. Tanguay knocked the rebound of Sakic's shot past Brodeur to cap a flurry of three goals in 83 seconds.
The Avalanche struck first as Sakic flipped Rob Blake's rebound over Brodeur for a power-play goal at 18:33. New Jersey quickly evened the score on a power-play goal by Niedermayer at 19:26.
Notes: The Devils swapped players on the injured reserve list. New Jersey removed D David Hale, who missed four games with a groin injury, and put RW Grant Marshall on the list with a sore back. ... Tanguay's goal extended his point-scoring streak to eight games.
-- Associated Press