PHILADELPHIA (AP) -Steve Valiquette made 31 saves to record his second straight shutout over the Philadelphia Flyers in the New York Rangers’ 2-0 win on Saturday.
Nigel Dawes and Scott Gomez scored power-play goals for the Rangers, who have dominated the Flyers in Philadelphia. New York has won 11 of its last 12 games at the Wachovia Center, and is 6-0-1 there since a loss on April 15, 2006.
Valiquette’s only other career shutout came in Philadelphia on Jan. 31. He made 20 saves in a 4-0 win. Valiquette has four wins this season, two in Philadelphia and two in Toronto.
The Flyers have lost two straight to drop out of first place in the Atlantic Division behind Pittsburgh.
Penguins 4, Kings 2
PITTSBURGH (AP) – Evgeni Malkin scored two goals and set up another and Pittsburgh won successive games for the first time since captain Sidney Crosby’s injury.
Malkin’s fourth consecutive multipoint game gave him 69 points for the season, four behind NHL leader Alex Ovechkin of Washington.
op line after Crosby injured his right ankle Jan. 18, Malkin has seven goals and 10 assists in nine games, including 11 points in his last four.
Los Angeles, last in the NHL with 49 points but 8-4-1 in its last 13, fell behind 4-0 in the second period and slipped to 3-2-1 on a season-high, eight-game road trip.
Penguins goaltender Dany Sabourin won for only the second time in the team’s last 20 games.
Malkin scored twice on the power play – giving him 30 goals – and assisted on Ryan Malone’s 17th, barely 12 hours after Malone’s wife, Abby, delivered the couple’s first child.
Maple Leafs 3, Red Wings 2, OT
TORONTO (AP) – Nik Antropov deflected in Anton Stralman’s slap shot 62 seconds into overtime to lift Toronto over Detroit.
Darcy Tucker scored for Toronto in the first period, Nicklas Lidstrom tied it 1-1 in the second, and then the five-time Norris Trophy winner gave Detroit the lead at 11:18 of the third when his long shot was stopped by Vesa Toskala and rebounded off Mikael Samuelsson and into the net.
Leafs captain Mats Sundin tied it 2-2 at 13:35 when his soft shot ricocheted in off the inside of Dominik Hasek’s right skate blade.
Lidstrom’s assist on Samuelsson’s goal was his 54th point, the most among NHL defensemen.
It was Toronto’s fifth afternoon home game in 12 years, and the Maple Leafs won them all.
Wild 4, Islanders 3, OT
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – Brent Burns scored 2:34 into overtime to lift Minnesota and send the New York Islanders to their seventh straight loss.
Brian Rolston had two goals for the Wild, who were outshot 29-18 and trailed 3-2 with 4:05 left in the third period when Sean Bergenheim scored for the Islanders. New York picked up its first standings point since beating Carolina on Jan. 22, dropping the next six in regulation.
Kurtis Foster also scored for Minnesota. Bill Guerin and Andy Hilbert had goals for New York, and Mike Comrie notched two assists.
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