Devils 4, Penguins 1: Niclas Bergfors had a goal and two assists and visiting New Jersey closed to one victory of tying the NHL record of 10 consecutive road victories to start a season, beating slumping Pittsburgh last night.
Zach Parise added a goal and an assist, Travis Zajac had three assists and Martin Brodeur made 25 saves as New Jersey improved to 9-0 on the road. The Devils can tie the road streak record Monday in Philadelphia.
New Jersey won its seventh in a row overall and, with 26 points, tied idle Washington for first place in the Eastern Conference.
Predators 3, Blues 1:Jordin Tootoo scored on a wrist shot with 3:43 left as visiting Nashville beat St. Louis last night.
Tootoo beat Chris Mason from outside the faceoff circle for his first goal of the season. David Legwand added an empty-net goal.
The Predators won for the fifth time in seven games, finishing their trip 2-2.
Nashville goaltender Pekka Rinne made 21 saves after letting in the first shot he faced. Rinne won for the fourth time in his last five appearances.
Panthers 1, Bruins 0 (SO): Tomas Vokoun stopped 40 shots for his third shutout of the season, and Cory Stillman scored in a shootout to lift visiting Florida past Boston last night.
Boston's Tim Thomas made 23 saves in regulation and overtime to extend his shutout streak to 172 minutes, 28 seconds. He stopped the first three Florida tries in the shootout, but Stillman beat him on the glove side to end it.
The Bruins have not lost in regulation on their four-game homestand.
Florida snapped a two-game losing streak.
Flyers 5, Senators 1: Ray Emery made 22 saves in his first start against his former team, and Danny Briere scored two goals to help Philadelphia beat visiting Ottawa last night for its fifth straight victory.
Blair Betts, James Van Riemsdyk and Darroll Powe all scored for the Flyers, and Jeff Carter, Kimmo Timonen, and Chris Pronger each added two assists.
Mike Fisher scored for Ottawa. The Senators have lost two straight and four of their last six games.
Red Wings 3, Canucks 1: Henrik Zetterberg scored midway through the third period and Jimmy Howard made 31 saves as Detroit beat visiting Vancouver last night.
Zetterberg took a long pass from Brad Stuart, slipped past the defense and lifted a backhander over Roberto Luongo's left shoulder for his team-leading 17th point.
Luongo made 26 saves in his first start since facing Detroit on Oct. 27 when he aggravated a broken rib. After Luongo was pulled for an extra skater, Niklas Kronwall cleared the puck from the Red Wings' end, got a fortunate bounce off the boards and it trickled into the empty net.
Tomas Holmstrom gave Detroit a 1-0 lead late in the first period. Vancouver's Mason Raymond tied it in the second.
Detroit won its third consecutive home game and is 5-1 after a .500 start.
Lightning 4, Wild 3 (SO): Ryan Malone tied it with 14.7 seconds left in regulation, and Vincent Lecavalier and Steven Stamkos scored in the shootout as Tampa Bay rallied past visiting Minnesota last night.
Malone tied it 3 on a backhander during a power play with Lightning goalie Antero Niittymaki off the ice for an extra skater.
Stamkos scored his 13th goal of the season during regulation and added an assist. Steve Downie had the other Tampa Bay goal, coming at 9:17 of the third.
Benoit Pouliot, Kim Johnsson and Owen Nolan scored for Minnesota.
Thrashers 5, Rangers 3: Ilya Kovalchuk had a goal and two assists in his first game back from a foot injury and Rich Peverley scored once and set up two goals in visiting Atlanta's victory over New York last night.
Atlanta got a big boost from Kovalchuk, who had missed six games and had been ruled out of this one as late as Wednesday. But the team captain got on the team flight, took part in yesterday morning's skate, and was fine following pregame warmups.
He helped set up Peverley's power-play goal in the second period and then scored to put Atlanta back in front after the Rangers tied it a second time.
Thrashers rookie Evander Kane, who was questionable because of a foot injury, was well enough to play and had a goal and assist.
Canadiens 4, Coyotes 2: Marc-Andre Bergeron and Glen Metropolit scored 1:02 apart early in the third period and visiting Montreal beat Phoenix last night.
Michael Cammalleri and Brian Gionta also scored, and Tomas Plekanec had three assists for Montreal.
The Canadiens snapped a two-game losing streak and won for just the third time in eight games.
Paul Bissonnette scored his first career goal, and Robert Lang also scored for Phoenix.
The Coyotes have lost four of five.
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