TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -Daniel Alfredsson had three goals and four assists for an Ottawa-record seven points, leading the struggling Senators to an 8-4 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning on Thursday night.
Alfredsson and Jason Spezza, who had two goals and two assists, scored 29 seconds apart during Ottawa’s three-goal first period. The Senators’ captain added a short-handed goal and his 500th career assist in the second as the Senators took a 5-0 lead.
Tampa Bay’s John Tortorella coached his 507th game, breaking a tie with Herb Brooks for most games coached by an American-born NHL coach.
Alfredsson topped his career high of six points at Buffalo on Nov. 2, 2005.
Capitals 2, Maple Leafs 1
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Capitals entered the All-Star break by winning for the fifth time in six games to get within a point of first place in the Southeast Division.
Brooks Laich and Viktor Kozlov scored, and Alex Ovechkin assisted on both goals in Thursday night’s 2-1 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs.
The win gave the Capitals a split of the home-and-home, back-to-back series against Toronto and moved them within a point Carolina. Washington is the only NHL team not to lose consecutive games in regulation since Nov. 22, the day Bruce Boudreau took over for Hanlon.
Brent Johnson, giving Olie Kolzig a night off, made 31 saves for the Capitals. Ovechkin had his six-game goal-scoring streak come to an end, but his two assists give him 13 points in his last seven games.
Rangers 2, Thrashers 1, SO
NEW YORK (AP) – On Brian Leetch night, the New York Rangers got it done with defense.
Henrik Lundqvist was perfect through three rounds of the shootout, and Brendan Shanahan scored the only goal in the tiebreaker for the Rangers.
Before the game, the Rangers retired Leetch’s No. 2 and raised a banner to the Madison Square Garden rafters in between those honoring former teammates Mark Messier and Mike Richter.
Shanahan scored with the first shot of the shootout, and Mark Recchi, Slava Kozlov and Marian Hossa failed to solve Lundqvist.
Hossa staked Atlanta to a 1-0 lead in the opening minute of the second period.
Oilers 4, Panthers 3, SO.
SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) – Jarret Stoll scored twice in the final 1:23 of regulation to force overtime and help the Edmonton Oilers beat Florida 4-3 in a shootout Thursday.
Shawn Horcoff scored the only goal in the shootout, and Oilers goalie Mathieu Baron stopped Nathan Horton, Kamil Kreps and Olli Jokinen.
Ethan Moreau also scored in regulation for Edmonton, which won for only the second time in its last six games.
Jokinen, Brett McLean, and Gregory Campbell scored for Florida, which snapped a six-game home losing streak with a 5-3 victory over Ottawa in its previous game.
Canadiens 4, Devils 3
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) – Chris Higgins scored a power-play goal with 5:29 remaining to cap Montreal’s three-goal third period in the final game for both before the All-Star break.
Brian Smolinski scored twice for Montreal, which got its 17th road win of the season.
The Devils had leads of 2-0 and 3-1, thanks to two goals from Patrick Elias and one from captain Jamie Langenbrunner.
Bruins 4, Islanders 1
BOSTON (AP) – Marc Savard and Dennis Wideman each had a goal and an assist for Boston.
Tim Thomas made 28 saves and Zdeno Chara added two assists for the Bruins, who have won four of six and headed into the All-Star break seeded seventh in the Eastern Conference.
The Islanders lost for the first time in five road games but have dropped four of six going into the break.
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