NHL ROUNDUP Saturday's games

Stars 3, Blue Jackets 2
COLUMBUS -- The Dallas Stars regained their offense -- and reversed a listless start. Bill Guerin assisted on three third-period goals as the Stars beat the Columbus Blue Jackets. "Everybody stepped up their play and their emotion, and that's what we needed," Guerin said of the Stars' late surge. "That's one of the great things about this game -- the passion, the emotion that you have playing. If you don't have that, you might as well not play. You can tell who doesn't have it out there. It's easy to tell." Jason Arnott, Philippe Boucher and Rob DiMaio scored for the Stars, who had gone 160 minutes and 41 seconds without a goal before Arnott tied the game at 1-all midway through the third period. DiMaio's goal with 2:24 left was the difference. Columbus goaltender Marc Denis protested that he was pulled down as DiMaio shot from the top of the right circle. "It shouldn't have counted," Blue Jackets coach Doug MacLean said.
Islanders 7, Penguins 2
UNIONDALE, N.Y. -- Mariusz Czerkawski and Trent Hunter each had a pair of goals as the New York Islanders won for the third time in four games by beating the Pittsburgh Penguins. Janne Niinimaa, Jason Blake and Sean Bergenheim also scored for New York. Garth Snow finished with 18 saves for his second straight win. Rico Fata and Alexei Morozov scored for the Penguins, who have just one win in their first seven games (1-4-2-0). Sebastien Caron went the entire way, and made 31 saves. After Hunter gave the Islanders a 1-0 lead just over five minutes into the game, New York scored twice in the period's final 1:48 to take command. Czerkawski tipped in a shot off a pass from Alexei Yashin to make it 2-0, and Hunter scored his second with 33.6 seconds left to put the Islanders up three.
Flyers 4, Hurricanes 4
PHILADELPHIA -- Mark Recchi scored a short-handed goal late in the third period as the Philadelphia Flyers rallied from an early two-goal deficit and tied Carolina. Recchi took a pass from Eric Desjardins and beat Jamie Storr with a wrist shot from outside the faceoff circle at the 16:50 mark for his fourth goal of the season. Niclas Wallin scored two goals and Storr made 28 saves in his first start of the season as Carolina finished a four-game road trip unbeaten at 1-0-3-0. Radim Vrbata added a goal and an assist, and Danny Markov also scored for the Hurricanes.
Bruins 5, Devils 2
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Rookie Andrew Raycroft made 31 saves and the Boston Bruins scored four third-period goals to rally for a victory over the New Jersey Devils. Patrice Bergeron, Sergei Samsonov, Glen Murray and Joe Thornton tallied in the final period as the Bruins won their fifth straight road game for rookie coach Mike Sullivan. Martin Lapointe also scored for Boston, which is 1-0-1 against the Stanley Cup champions. Patrik Elias and Jamie Langenbrunner scored for New Jersey.
Lightning 3, Wild 2
TAMPA, Fla. -- Cory Stillman scored a tiebreaking short-handed goal early in the third period as undefeated Tampa Bay overcame a two-goal deficit to beat the Minnesota Wild, the Lightning's franchise-best sixth straight win to open the season. Stillman scored from the low right circle off a pass by Tim Taylor during a two-on-one at 1:14. Brad Richards and Vincent Lecavalier also scored for the Lightning.
Maple Leafs 4, Capitals 1
TORONTO -- Mats Sundin scored his first goal of the season and 300th with Toronto as the Maple Leafs won their third straight with a victory over the struggling Washington Capitals. Criticized for not recording a point in his first five games, Sundin gave Toronto a 2-0 lead in the second. The center also scored 135 goals in four seasons with the Quebec Nordiques. Alexander Mogilny, Toronto's leading scorer last year, and Bryan McCabe, a top defenseman, contributed in their first game back after being sidelined with injuries.
Panthers 3, Thrashers 2
ATLANTA -- Olli Jokinen scored a third-period goal and backup goalie Steve Shields made 33 saves as the Florida Panthers handed the Atlanta Thrashers their first regulation loss of the season. Viktor Kozlov and Mike Van Ryn also scored for Florida, which has yet to score more than three goals in a game. Shields started for the first time this season in place of Roberto Luongo, who had faced a league-high 282 shots through the first eight games.
Rangers 3, Red Wings 1
NEW YORK -- Petr Nedved scored for the second straight game as the New York Rangers beat Detroit for their first victory over the Red Wings in four years. Bobby Holik and Mark Messier also scored for the Rangers, who had lost seven straight games to the Red Wings since their last win over Detroit on Oct. 30, 1999. The drought at home was even longer as Detroit had won seven in a row at Madison Square Garden, dating to March 1997.
Senators 6, Canadiens 2
MONTREAL -- Marian Hossa had three assists to help the Ottawa Senators extend their winning streak to four with a victory over the Montreal Canadiens. Jason Spezza, Radek Bonk and Daniel Alfredsson each had a goal and an assist for Ottawa, which beat Montreal for the second time in a little more than two weeks. Vaclav Varada, Peter Schaefer and Martin Havlat also scored, and Patrick Lalime made 23 saves.
Avalanche 5, Predators 3
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Milan Hejduk scored two goals within two minutes in the second period and had an assist, and Peter Forsberg added a goal and two assists as the Colorado Avalanche held off the Nashville Predators. It was the sixth straight win for the Avalanche on the Predators' home ice. Colorado now is 12-4-5-0 against Nashville all-time.
-- Associated Press