NHL ROUNDUP Saturday's games



Flyers 5, Thrashers 4
PHILADELPHIA -- Simon Gagne scored on a penalty shot with 1 minute, 1 second remaining, as Philadelphia snapped a three-game losing streak.
Gagne was awarded a penalty shot after Thrashers defenseman Andy Sutton shot a loose stick on the ice toward him while he was skating near the boards with the puck. Gagne broke in on goaltender Pasi Nurminen, faked to his left and lifted a backhander in for his 17th goal.
Serge Aubin, Sutton, Dany Heatley and Ilya Kovalchuk scored for Atlanta, which had won three of four after a 10-game winless streak. The Thrashers went 3-4 on a seven-game road trip that tied for the longest in team history.
Joni Pitkanen scored two power-play goals around one by Michal Handzus in a span of 2:42 in the first period, but Philadelphia couldn't hold leads of 3-0 and 4-3. Marcus Ragnarsson also scored for the Flyers.
Sean Burke made 32 saves for his third win since coming to Philadelphia. Burke, who has allowed 18 goals in the last four games, was booed at the start of the game and several times throughout.
Burke has started six straight games since replacing rookie Antero Niittymaki, who allowed just three goals in his only three games -- all wins. Starter Robert Esche is due to return soon from a knee injury.
Kovalchuk tied it at 4 just 3:15 into the third. He got the rebound of his own shot and wristed it past Burke for his 33rd goal.
Ragnarsson gave the Flyers a 4-3 lead in the second period when he took Branko Radivojevic's pass from behind the net and one-timed it over Nurminen's glove for his fourth goal.
The Flyers took advantage of a five-minute major on Ronald Petrovicky midway through the first period by scoring three times. Petrovicky received a game misconduct for charging Philadelphia's Mattias Timander into the boards. It was the third time in team history the Flyers scored three goals on the same five-minute power play.
But the Thrashers scored three goals in a span of 5:59 in the second period to tie it.
First, Aubin scored his ninth goal off a rebound of a shot by Marc Savard to make it 3-1. Just 2:33 later, Sutton scored on a two-man advantage to cut it to 3-2.
Heatley's power-play goal with 8:36 left in the second period tied it at 3. Heatley redirected Sutton's slap shot past Burke for his fourth goal.
The injury-plagued Flyers got off to a strong start when Pitkanen scored just 43 seconds into Petrovicky's penalty for a 1-0 lead. His slap shot from just inside the blue line hit Thrashers defenseman Garnet Exelby's glove and went between goaltender Nurminen's legs.
Handzus made it 2-0 just 1:37 later with his 16th goal, a shot from the side of the net that hit Sutton's skate and went in. Pitkanen, who assisted on Handzus' goal, then blasted a shot from just outside the faceoff circle past Nurminen for a 3-0 lead.
Devils 7, Rangers 3
NEW YORK -- Scott Gomez scored two goals and added three assists for the second time in three games, and Patrick Elias had four points to lead New Jersey. Gomez had his first multigoal game of the season and tied his career-high with five points. Elias scored twice and added two assists. Turner Stevenson and Grant Marshall also had first-period goals, and Gomez set up Elias and Brian Gionta in the second. Martin Rucinsky, Jaromir Jagr and Bobby Holik scored for the Rangers, 4-12-2 in their last 18 games.
Senators 2, Flames 1
OTTAWA -- Martin Havlat scored 2:26 into the third period, lifting Ottawa over Calgary. Bryan Smolinski scored a power-play goal in the first and Patrick Lalime made 18 saves for Ottawa, undefeated in regulation in its last eight games (5-0-1-2). Defenseman Jordan Leopold scored on a power play midway through the first for Calgary, which has lost two in a row on the heels of its third four-game winning streak of the season.
Source: Associated Press