NHL ROUNDUP Saturday's other games
Blue Jackets 5, Panthers 4
SUNRISE, Fla. -- David Vyborny scored a power-play goal with 12 seconds left in overtime, and Pascal Leclair made 47 saves for Columbus. The Panthers tied it with 47 seconds left in regulation when Nathan Horton deflected a shot by Jay Bouwmeester. Vyborny also had a third-period goal, and Jason Chimera, Sergei Fedorov and Rick Nash added goals for Columbus. Joe Nieuwendyk, Gary Roberts and Chris Gratton also scored for Florida and Roberto Luongo made 17 saves. Columbus took a 4-3 lead at 11:27 of the third when Michael Rupp's shot rebounded off Luongo and Chimera poked in the puck. The Panthers had tied it at 3 on Gratton's shot from the right circle at 5:02 of the third. The Blue Jackets scored two goals in less than 3 minutes in the third period. They tied it at 2 at 1:17 on Vyborny's wrist shot from the left circle, and took a 3-2 lead at 4:07 when Nash's shot hit a Florida player in front of the crease and Fedorov pushed the puck past Luongo. Columbus had only eight shots in the first two periods, even thought it had five power plays. Columbus cut the score to 2-1 at 3:23 of the second. Nash took a pass from Nikolai Zherdev near the blue line and skated in alone on Luongo. Nash beat Luongo on the stick side for his 11th goal in his past 14 games. Florida's second goal of the first period came during a power play. A slap shot from Olli Jokinen deflected off Roberts' stick and went over Leclair's left shoulder at 15:26. Florida took a 1-0 lead at 12:45 when Nieuwendyk took a pass to the side of the crease and beat Leclair stick side.
Avalanche 4, Flyers 3
PHILADELPHIA -- Alex Tanguay scored with 45.8 seconds left in overtime, helping Colorado spoil Peter Forsberg's first game against his former team. The Flyers forced overtime with a frantic final 2 minutes of regulation, getting goals from Mike Knuble and Forsberg before getting dominated in the extra period. The Avalanche took nine of their 34 shots in OT and held the Flyers without a shot. John-Michael Liles, Brett Clark and Antti Laaksonen also scored for the Avalanche, who've won seven straight games for the first time since Jan. 16-30, 2001.
Red Wings 4, Rangers 3
DETROIT -- Brendan Shanahan's second goal of the game snapped a third-period tie and the Detroit Red Wings broke the New York Rangers' streak of seven games in which they earned at least a point. Robert Lang and Johan Franzen also scored for the Red Wings. Jaromir Jagr scored his league-leading 29th goal. Michael Nylander and Jed Ortmeyer also had goals for the Rangers.
Stars 2, Bruins 1, SO
BOSTON -- Jussi Jokinen scored the only goal of the shootout to lift the Dallas Stars to their season-high sixth straight win. Stars goalie Marty Turco made 26 stops before turning aside Patrice Bergeron, Marco Sturm and Sergei Samsonov in the shootout. Boston goaltender Tim Thomas, making his first start since April 5, 2003, made 37 saves before the shootout. The Stars improved to 5-0 in shootouts, while the Bruins dropped to 0-3.
Canadiens 6, Sharks 2
MONTREAL -- Andrei Markov had two goals and two assists in a six-goal second period to help Montreal general manager Bob Gainey win in his Canadiens coaching debut. Markov and Chris Higgins scored short-handed goals and Markov also had one of Montreal's four power-play goals in the second. Jose Theodore made 23 saves and Swiss defenseman Mark Streit scored his first NHL goal and added an assist.
Canucks 8, Islanders 1
UNIONDALE, N.Y. -- Todd Bertuzzi scored twice on Vancouver's first three shots en route to his fifth career hat trick and the Canucks chased New York goalie Rick DiPietro with three second-period goals. Vancouver scored three more goals in the second period, two against DiPietro and one against Wade Dubielewicz -- 9 seconds after he came in. New York lost for the ninth time in 11 games.
Coyotes 4, Maple Leafs 3
TORONTO -- Paul Mara, Geoff Sanderson, Ladislav Nagy and Fredrik Sjostrom scored goals to help Phoenix overcome a three-goal, first-period deficit. Wayne Gretzky coached his first game in Toronto, and former Maple Leafs goalie Curtis Joseph, playing his first in Toronto since leaving in 2002, made 25 saves. Gretzky and his father, Walter, received loud ovations when shown on the videoboard. Toronto's Jason Allison, Carlo Colaiacovo and Tomas Kaberle scored power-play goals in the first period.
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