DETROIT (AP) -Ales Hemsky scored the only goal of the shootout to lift the Edmonton Oilers to a 4-3 win over Detroit on Thursday night, snapping the Red Wings’ seven-game winning streak.
Hemsky, Joni Pitkanen and Fernando Pisani scored for Edmonton in regulation, and Robert Nilsson and Sam Gagner each had two assists. Dwayne Roloson made 39 saves.
Henrik Zetterberg had two goals and Mark Hartigan also scored for Detroit. Brian Rafalski had two assists and Dominik Hasek stopped 22 shots.
Flames 9, Lightning 6
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) – Jarome Iginla and Kristian Huselius had three goals each to lead Calgary.
Iginla scored all his goals in the third period, giving him six career hat tricks. He broke a 6-all deadlock with goals with 5:19 and 4:19 left in the period. Owen Nolan had an empty-netter with 22.2 seconds to play.
Huselius recorded his first career hat trick. Adrian Aucoin and Daymond Langkow had the other Calgary goals. Goalie Miikka Kiprusoff gave up six goals on 31 shots.
Tampa Bay got two goals and an assist from Martin St. Louis. Vincent Lecavalier, Andre Roy, Vinny Prospal and Brad Richards also scored.
Devils 3, Bruins 1
BOSTON (AP) – Jamie Langenbrunner scored two goals to lift New Jersey in a game played in front of about only 1,500 people due to a major snowstorm.
Brian Gionta also scored and Martin Brodeur stopped 19 shots for the Devils, who halted a two-game losing skid that came after a nine-game winning streak.
Marc Savard had a power-play goal for Boston, which snapped a three-game winning streak at home. The Bruins played 11 of their previous 13 on the road.
Canadiens 4, Flyers 1
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Mark Streit scored two goals and rookie goalie Carey Price made 29 saves for Montreal.
Christopher Higgins and Andrei Kostitsyn also scored, and Tomas Plekanec had two assists for the Canadiens, who snapped a two-game losing streak.
Mike Knuble scored for the Flyers, who had ended their five-game home losing streak with an 8-2 win over Pittsburgh on Tuesday.
Islanders 3, Coyotes 2
UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) – Bill Guerin snapped a scoreless tie in the second period and added a goal in the third to lift the New York Islanders in a matchup of the NHL’s lowest-scoring teams.
The Islanders came in with a league-low 66 goals – two fewer than Phoenix – but found a way to beat their unfamiliar opponent. New York failed to score more than three goals for the 20th straight game, but that was enough to earn its first home win over the Coyotes in 10 years.
Marc-Andre Bergeron put the Islanders ahead 2-0 in the third, and Guerin answered defenseman Nick Boynton’s short-handed goal to restore New York’s two-goal lead with 8:20 remaining.
Niko Kapanen again brought Phoenix within a goal with 3:55 left.
Rick DiPietro made 34 saves for the Islanders. Ilya Bryzgalov stopped 30 shots in his 12th straight start since being claimed off waivers from Anaheim by Phoenix last month.
Senators 4, Penguins 1
PITTSBURGH (AP) – Dany Heatley scored two goals for the second night in a row and Jason Spezza also scored twice in Ottawa’s fourth straight win.
Spezza scored the go-ahead goal early in the third period on a power play as the Senators rallied from a 1-0 deficit to close out a 4-0-1 road trip. Their four consecutive wins followed a seven-game losing streak.
Senators goalie Martin Gerber stopped 26 shots.
Spezza, who scored into an empty net in the final minute, added two assists to give him seven points in two nights.
Tyler Kennedy, a rookie who has unexpectedly given the Penguins a scoring lift with five goals after spending most of the first month of the season in the minors, gave Pittsburgh a 1-0 lead in the second period.
Avalanche 2, Predators 1
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Ryan Smyth and Ian Laperriere scored third-period goals to lift Colorado.
Avalanche goaltender Peter Budaj came within 19 seconds of his first shutout of the season before Alexander Radulov scored for the Predators.
Smyth broke the scoreless tie at 4:58 of the third period. He fired a slap shot from outside of the left circle that went into the net between the legs of Predators goaltender Chris Mason.
Laperriere scored from the edge of the crease at 16:45.
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