Stars 3, Red Wings 1: Alex Auld made 31 saves, and Mike Ribeiro, Matt Niskanen and Loui Eriksson scored in visiting Dallas' victory over Detroit last night.
Brad Richards and James Neal each had two assists for the Stars.
Henrik Zetterberg scored for Detroit, and Jimmy Howard stopped 29 shots. The loss snapped the Red Wings' winning streak at three.
Niskanen gave the Stars a 2-0 lead 3:52 into the second period with his first goal of the season. He beat Howard with a one-timer from the point.
Zetterberg put Detroit on the board 6:16 into the middle period with his ninth goal. He cut into the slot from the right wing and beat Auld high on the sick side.
Eriksson's power-play goal with 7:17 left gave the Stars a 3-1 lead. He tipped in a cross-crease pass.
Ribeiro opened the scoring on a power play 9:26 into the game.
His attempted pass was accidentally swatted into the net by Detroit defenseman Jonathan Ericsson, who sprawled along the ice in order to thwart a pass. It was Ribeiro's sixth goal.
Coyotes 3, Wild 2: Radim Vrbata had a goal and an assist, and Ilya Bryzgalov made 24 saves in visiting Phoenix's victory over Minnesota last night.
The Wild's Antti Miettinen tied it at 2 with 4:58 to play, but Phoenix countered 19 seconds later, with Scotty Upshall blasting in the rebound of Keith Yandle's shot.
James Vandermeer also scored for Phoenix.
Andrew Brunette added a goal for the Wild, 0-2-2 in their past four games. Minnesota was outshot for long stretches of the game and repeatedly frustrated by Bryzgalov.
The teams emerged from the first period scoreless, despite the Coyotes repeatedly pouncing on Wild giveaways and outshooting Minnesota 15-5.
The Coyotes scored on their 16th shot when Vrbata's wrister eluded a crowd in front of Minnesota's Nicklas Backstrom and sailed over the line before the goalie could get a look at the puck. It was Vrbata's sixth goal of the season.
The goal early in the second period came on a controversial Phoenix power play. In the final seconds of the opening period, Minnesota's Owen Nolan was whistled for slashing Sami Lepisto of the Coyotes.
Replays showed Nolan raised his stick, but did not make contact with Lepisto, just as the Phoenix player's stick snapped.
Panthers 6, Sabres 2: Michael Frolik scored twice, Dominic Moore and Rostislav Olesz had a goal and an assist each, and Tomas Vokoun made 26 saves in visiting Florida's victory over Buffalo last night.
Stephen Weiss and Cory Stillman also scored for the Panthers (8-9-2), who have turned things around after being 2-7-1. Florida, which beat Buffalo for the first time in five games, is 6-2-1 in its past eight games.
Drew Stafford and Clarke MacArthur scored, and Ryan Miller made 18 saves for Buffalo (12-5-1), which was denied in its attempt to string together a four-game winning streak for the third time this season.
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