NHL ROUNDUP

NHL ROUNDUP

Monday’s games

Thrashers 4, Lightning 3, OT

ATLANTA — Atlanta’s Todd White scored a power-play goal with 2:11 left in overtime. Ilya Kovalchuk had his NHL-best 17th goal for the Thrashers, who withstood another terrific effort by Vincent Lecavalier to earn their third straight win. Lecavalier had a goal and an assist for the Lightning to extend his multipoint streak to eight games, longest in the NHL since Jaromir Jagr had 10 straight for Pittsburgh from Feb. 18-March 9, 1996. Kovalchuk tied it at 3 with a wrister with 2:23 left in regulation, and helped set up White’s winner in overtime.

Islanders 2, Rangers 1

NEW YORK — Rick DiPietro earned his 100th NHL victory with an 18-save effort and the Islanders beat the Rangers for the third time this season. The Islanders are 8-1-2 in their last 11 against the Rangers, and now have 500 road wins in franchise history. DiPietro earned his 12th victory over New York and snapped the Rangers’ winning streak at five. Ruslan Fedotenko and Josef Vasicek staked the Islanders to a 2-0 lead in the second period. Michal Rozsival scored for the Rangers, who got 22 saves from Henrik Lundqvist.

Senators 4, Canadiens 2

MONTREAL — Dany Heatley had a goal and two assists and Jason Spezza added three assists for the Senators. Patrick Eaves, Chris Neil and Chris Kelly also scored for Ottawa. Martin Gerber stopped 36 shots for his league-leading 13th win in 15 starts. Guillaume Latendresse and Chris Higgins scored for Montreal.

Panthers 4, Capitals 3

WASHINGTON — Olli Jokinen had two goals and Florida ended a four-game road losing streak. David Booth and Kamil Kreps also scored for the Panthers, who beat Washington for the second time in less than a week. Tomas Vokoun finished with 27 saves.

Stars 3, Kings 0

DALLAS — Steve Ott scored a rare goal, and Mike Smith stopped 22 shots for his fourth career shutout to send Dallas over Los Angeles. Ott notched the 12th goal of his career in 214 games late in the second period to put Dallas in front, and the Stars went on to beat the Kings in Dallas for the 10th straight time.

Niklas Hagman added his team-high ninth goal on a breakaway at 13:10 of the third period, and Jere Lehtinen scored his sixth on a power play 2:14 later to stretch Dallas’ advantage to 3-0.

Blues 2, Predators 1

ST. LOUIS — St. Louis’ Paul Kariya had a goal and an assist against his former team. Brad Boyes scored his team-leading 12th goal for the Blues, who have won four straight. Kariya, who played the last two seasons with the Predators, broke a scoreless tie in the second. He tipped Erik Johnson’s shot from the point between the pads of Nashville goalie Chris Mason at 9:32 of the second for a power-play goal. It was Kariya’s fifth goal of the season. Boyes gave the Blues a 2-0 lead when he banged home Kariya’s tip pass 6:40 into the third period.

Associated Press