NHL ROUNDUP

NHL ROUNDUP

Thursday’s other games

Rangers 4, Flyers 3

PHILADELPHIA — Brendan Shanahan scored the only goal in a shootout to lead the New York Rangers over Philadelphia in the Flyers’ first home loss of the season. Shanahan scored on New York’s second shootout attempt and beat Martin Biron to give the Rangers their third shootout win of the season. Shanahan, Fedor Tyutin and Petr Prucha scored for the Rangers in regulation, helping them move into a tie with the Flyers for first place in the Atlantic Division. Jim Dowd, Danny Briere and Denis Tolpeko scored for the Flyers, who were hoping to move to 7-0 at home for the first time since the 1986-87 season.

Senators 3, Sabres 2

OTTAWA — Daniel Alfredsson scored a pair of first-period goals and Martin Gerber made 35 saves for his NHL-leading 12th win in Ottawa victory over Buffalo. Alfredsson, who played his 800th regular-season game, opened the scoring with his 14th goal 6:32 in. The Ottawa captain got his second goal of the period — his 15th of the season — on a power play at 18:53. Shean Donovan scored in the second period for the Senators, who improved to 15-2-0. Jochen Hecht and Derek Roy scored for Buffalo, which has lost three straight, and six of seven (1-5-1). Ryan Miller stopped 31 shots for the Sabres.

Bruins 5, Maple Leafs 2

BOSTON — Peter Schaefer had a pair of third-period goals, Marc Savard scored 19 seconds into the game and Tim Thomas stopped 34 shots to lead Boston over Toronto.

Thomas, making his ninth straight start and his first since a 45-save effort in a 2-1 win over Buffalo Saturday, held the league’s second-highest scoring team scoreless with 19 saves in the final period. The Maple Leafs, who have allowed the most goals in the NHL, were a welcome relief for a struggling Bruins’ offense. Boston, held to two goals or less in its previous five games and eight of 10, also got goals from Marco Strum and Glen Metropolit. Kyle Wellwood had a power-play goal and Alexei Ponikarovsky scored for the Maple Leafs, who have lost four of their past five.

Panthers 2, Capitals 1

SUNRISE, Fla. — Richard Zednik and Kamil Kreps scored to help Florida snap a four-game losing streak. Alex Ovechkin scored for the Capitals, who have dropped six of seven games and 15 of 18 since starting the season 3-0. Washington dropped to 0-10-1 when trailing after two periods. Florida goalie Tomas Vokoun made 25 saves. Olie Kolzig finished with 23 stops for Washington. Jacques Martin won his 80th game as Panthers head coach to pass Terry Murray and move into sole possession of second place on the team’s victory list behind Doug MacLean (86).

Predators 5, Blackhawks 4, OT

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Martin Erat scored at 19 seconds of overtime. Erat, skating through the low slot, deflected a pass from Radek Bonk off Chicago defenseman Brent Seabrook’s skate by goalie Nikolai Khabibulin. Alexander Radulov scored a goal and added two assists for the Predators. The Predators scored the game’s first goal, allowed three Chicago second-period goals, and then scored three third-period goals, before allowing the tying goal from Jason Williams with 43 seconds remaining in regulation.

Associated Press