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Blues’ Fuhr Racks Up 300th Career Victory

Associated Press

NHL

Grant Fuhr became the 11th goaltender in NHL history to reach the 300-victory plateau as the St. Louis Blues scored four goals in the third period to beat the Winnipeg Jets 4-1 Thursday night at Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Fuhr was only tested 19 times in reaching the historic victory level as the Blues outshot the Jets 39-19. Fuhr, the only NHL goaltender to play every game for his team this season, improved his career record to 300-207-7-4 to rank behind Turk Broda (302) in victories.

The NHL’s all-time victory leader among goaltenders is Terry Sawchuk with 447.

Blues 4, Jets 1

St. Louis 0 0 4 - 4

Winnipeg 1 0 0 - 1

First period-1, Winnipeg, Olczyk 7 (Manson, Tkachuk), 8:54 (pp).

Second period-None.

Third period-2, St. Louis, Hull 11 (Hawerchuk), 3:55 (pp). 3, St. Louis, Vopat 2 (Noonan, Hawerchuk), 7:44. 4, St. Louis, Courtnall 8 (MacInnis), 8:30. 5, St. Louis, Hull 12 (Hawerchuk, Courtnall), 13:10 (pp).

Shots on goal-St. Louis 9-12-18-39. Winnipeg 7-4-8-19.Power-play opp.-St. Louis 2 of 10; Winnipeg 1 of 6.Goalies-St. Louis, Fuhr 10-12-3 (19 shots-18 saves). Winnipeg, Khabibulin (2-2), Cheveldae, 1-5-2 (3:08 first 37-33).A-9,222 (15,393).

Flyers 3, Maple Leafs 2 Philadelphia

Mikael Renberg’s goal with 1:03 remaining extended Philadelphia’s winning streak to seven games as the Flyers defeated Toronto.

Toronto 0 2 0 - 2

Philadelphia 1 0 2 - 3

First period-1, Philadelphia, Brind’Amour 7, 10:05.

Second period-2, Toronto, Andreychuk 8 (Gilmour, Jonsson), 5:10 (pp). 3, Toronto, Craig 4 (Macoun), 19:31.

Third period-4, Philadelphia, Fedyk 7 (Desjardins, Dykhuis), 4:34 (pp). 5, Philadelphia, Renberg 15 (Lindros), 18:57.

Shots on goal-Toronto 10-9-7-26. Philadelphia 9-11-10-30.Power-play opp.-Toronto 1 of 3; Philadelphia 1 of 3.Goalies-Toronto, Rhodes 1-2-1 (30 shots-27 saves). Philadelphia, Snow 6-2-1 (26-24).A-17,380 (17,380).

Islanders 5, Senators 3 Ottawa

Wendel Clark scored two goals as New York beat Ottawa in a meeting of two of the NHL’s worst teams.

The Islanders all but blew a 4-0 lead in the third period before Clark scored his second goal of the night to clinch the game.

NY Islanders 2 2 1 - 5

Ottawa 0 0 3 - 3

First period-1, New York, King 3 (Schneider, Semak), 13:00 (pp). 2, New York, Bertuzzi 5 (Palffy), 18:44.

Second period-3, New York, Sweeney 3 (Plante), :58 (sh). 4, New York, Clark 10, 2:24.

Third period-5, Ottawa, Cunneyworth 5 (Huffman), 2:11. 6, Ottawa, Cunneyworth 6 (Quinn), 11:40. 7, Ottawa, Hill 5 (Quinn, Neckar), 12:24. 8, New York, Clark 11, 18:51 (en).

Shots on goal-New York 12-12-8-32. Ottawa 14-13-9-33.Power-play opp.-New York 1 of 4; Ottawa 0 of 6.Goalies-New York, McLennan 3-7-1 (33 shots-30 saves). Ottawa, Beaupre 6-11-0 (31-27).A-8,167 (10,575).

Penguins 9, Bruins 6 Boston

NHL scoring leader Mario Lemieux had four goals as Pittsburgh beat Boston.

The hat trick was the 34th of Lemieux’s career and it marked the fourth time this season that he has scored four points in a game. Two of Lemieux’s goals came on power plays in the third period. He has 22 goals for the season and 52 points.

Pittsburgh 3 3 3 - 9

Boston 1 2 3 - 6

First period-1, Boston, Donato 6 (Bourque, Stumpel), 3:02 (pp). 2, Pittsburgh, Smolinski 5 (Nedved, Mironov), 6:07 (pp). 3, Pittsburgh, Lemieux 19 (Naslund), 13:21. 4, Pittsburgh, Jagr 20 (Francis, Smolinski), 16:53.

Second period-5, Boston, Czerkawski 1 (Oates, Stevens), 2:53. 6, Pittsburgh, Smolinski 6 (Francis, Zubov), 3:16. 7, Pittsburgh, Lemieux 20 (Naslund, Mironov) 7:02. 8, Boston, Bourque 10 (Neely, Oates), 11:47 (pp). 9, Pittsburgh, Murray 4 (Nedved, Naslund), 16:18.

Third period-10, Boston, Neely 12 (Bourque), 6:18 (pp). 11, Pittsburgh, Lemieux 21 (Jagr, Mironov), 8:11 (pp). 12, Pittsburgh, Lemieux 22 (Naslund, Maciver), 12:24 (pp). 13, Boston, McEachern 7 (Stumpel), 14:57. 14, Boston, Kasatonov 1 (McEachern, Zombo), 15:41. 15, Pittsburgh, Murray 5 (Tamer, Nedved), 17:12.

Shots on goal-Pittsburgh 8-12-14-36. Boston 14-13-12-39.Power-play opp.-Pittsburgh 3 of 5; Boston 3 of 8.Goalies-Pittsburgh, Wregget 3-3-1 (39 shots-33 saves). Boston, Bailey (12-7), Billington 4-4-0 (7:02 second, 24-20).A-17,565 (17,565).

Kings 3, Capitals 2 Inglewood, Calif.

Phillipe Boucher and Kevin Todd scored 4 minutes apart in the second period with teammate Wayne Gretzky serving a misconduct penalty, and Los Angeles ended a five-game losing streak.

Gretzky, a four-time winner of the Lady Byng Trophy for gentlemanly play, received an unsportmanlike conduct penalty from referee Lance Roberts less than 5 minutes into the period for taunting Washington’s Mark Tinordi, after the Capitals’ defenseman went to the box for roughing up Marty McSorley.

Washington 1 0 1 - 2

Los Angeles 1 2 0 - 3

First period-1, Los Angeles, Tocchet 11 (McSorley, Gretzky), 10:50. 2, Washington, Bondra 11 (Ustorf), 11:04.

Second period-3, Los Angeles, Boucher 1 (Cowie, Kurri), 11:26 (pp). 4, Los Angeles, Todd 4 (Tocchet), 15:27.

Third period-5, Washington, Hunter 4 (Berube, Eagles), 7:54.

Shots on goal-Washington 11-16-9-36. Los Angeles 8-11-10-29.Power-play opp.-Washington 0 of 4; Los Angeles 1 of 4.Goalies-Washington, Carey 9-8-2 (29 shots-26 saves). Los Angeles, Dafoe 8-7-5 (36-34).A-12,305 (16,005).