Amonte’s Goal In Overtime Sends Chicago Past Flames

Chicago’s Tony Amonte worked himself free in the slot and beat Trevor Kidd for the overtime winner Friday night as the Blackhawks beat the host Calgary Flames, 4-3.

Chicago had sent the game to overtime with just 1:15 left in the third period when Chris Chelios, alone in the slot, scored between the legs of former Spokane Chief Kidd.

The tying goal came just after Theoren Fleury had put Calgary ahead 3-2 by beating Jeff Hackett on a breakaway at 17:31 of the third.

Chicago’s Joe Murphy had his sixgame goal scoring streak snapped.

Chicago 1 1 1 1 - 4 Calgary 1 1 1 0 - 3

First Period-1, Chicago, Suter 2 (Nicholls, Chelios), 3:38 (pp). 2, Calgary, Titov 4 (Patrick, Sullivan), 15:19.

Second Period-3, Calgary, Titov 5 (Chiasson, Housley), 3:20 (pp). 4, Chicago, Weinrich 1, 11:48.

Third Period-5, Calgary, Fleury 3 (Nieuwendyk), 17:31. 6, Chicago, Chelios 3 (Poulin, Suter), 18:45.

Overtime-7, Chicago, Amonte 2 (Roenick, Poulin), 2:25.

Shots on goal-Chicago 13-9-8-1-31. Calgary 6-13-7-4-30.Power-play Opp.-Chicago 2 of 5; Calgary 1 of 5.Goalies-Chicago, Hackett 1-0-1 (30 shots-27 saves). Calgary, Kidd 3-3-1 (31-27).A-18,312 (20,230).

Oilers 5, Maple Leafs 3

Edmonton, Alberta

Rookie Todd Marchant scored his second goal of the season with less than 3 minutes remaining to lead Edmonton to a win over Toronto.

Marchant skated past Leafs defenseman Todd Gill at the Toronto blue line and then ripped a hard shot past Felix Potvin as the Oilers snapped a fivegame losing streak.

Toronto’s Bill Berg had tied the game 3-3 with just under 5 minutes left. He banged his own rebound past Oilers goaltender Fred Brathwaite as he stood unguarded at the side of the Edmonton net at 15:17 of the third period.

Toronto 0 2 1 - 3 Edmonton 0 2 3 - 5

First period-None.

Second period-1, Toronto, Wood 2 (Eastwood, Berehowsky), 3:18. 2, Edmonton, DeBrusk 1 (Pearson, Esau), 6:18. 3, Toronto, Sundin 4 (Gilmour), 7:14. 4, Edmonton, Corson 2 (Arnott, Buchberger), 16:03.

Third period-5, Edmonton, Oksiuta 5 (Esau, Weight), 5:11 (pp). 6, Toronto, Berg 2 (Borchevsky, Ridley), 15:17. 7, Edmonton, Marchant 2 (Stapleton), 16:42. 8, Edmonton, Corson 3 (Arnott, Kennedy), 19:46 (en).

Shots on goal-Toronto 6-11-6-23. Edmonton 11-10-16-37.Power-play opp.-Toronto 0 of 5; Edmonton 1 of 3.Goalies-Toronto, Potvin 3-3-2 (36 shots-32 saves). Edmonton, Brathwaite 1-1-0 (23-20).A-14,307 (17,503).

Red Wings 5, Mighty Ducks 2

Anaheim, Calif.

Ray Sheppard scored twice and Keith Primeau had two assists, leading Detroit to a victory over Anaheim.

The Red Wings took sole possession of first place in the Central Division with the victory, which made them 6-0 when they’ve scored the game’s first goal. Sergei Fedorov helped hand Anaheim its third straight loss with two assists.

After surrendering 16 goals on 98 shots during their two-game swing through St. Louis and Dallas, the Ducks set a club record by allowing 24 shots in the second period against goaltender Guy Hebert while falling behind 4-1.

Detroit 2 2 1 - 5 Anaheim 1 0 1 - 2

First period-1, Detroit, Brown 2 (Fedorov), 6:31. 2, Anaheim, Carnback 2 (Kurvers), 7:03. 3, Detroit, Sheppard 7 (Coffey, Primeau), 17:08.

Second period-4, Detroit, McCarty 1 (Primeau, Konstantinov), 14:44. 5, Detroit, Kozlov 2 (Ciccarelli, Fedorov), 16:41.

Third period-6, Detroit, Sheppard 8 (Sillinger, Yzerman), 6:47 (pp). 7, Anaheim, Douris 3 (Krygier, Dirk), 8:07.

Shots on goal-Detroit 8-24-12-44. Anaheim 7-8-5-20.Power-play opp.-Detroit 1 of 3; Anaheim 0 of 2.Goalies-Detroit, Vernon, 4-1-0 (20 shots-18 saves). Anaheim, Hebert, 2-3-0 (44-39).A-17,174 (17,174).