Whalers Find Offense, Grab Win

NHL

Two goals by captain Brendan Shanahan and Nelson Emerson’s game-winner in the third period lifted the Hartford Whalers to a 5-4 decision over the host Ottawa Senators on Saturday night.

The Whalers, shut out in their last two games and with only three goals total during five consecutive losses, got some welcome offensive production from their big guns.

Shanahan scored his first two goals as a Whaler, Geoff Sanderson added just his second goal of the season and Andrei Nikolishin scored shorthanded.

Whalers 5, Senators 4

Hartford 2 2 1 - 5 Ottawa 1 1 2 - 4

First period-1, Har, Shanahan 1 (Wesley, Cassels), 3:21. 2, Ott, Straka 4 (Alfredsson), 7:35. 3, Har, Sanderson 2 (Rice, Nikolishin), 15:40.

Second period-4, Har, Shanahan 2 (Wesley), 2:20 (pp). 5, Har, Nikolishin 1, 4:58 (sh). 6, Ott, Cunneyworth 3 (Bonk), 9:46.

Third period-7, Ott, Tormanen 4 (Bonk, Duchesne), 1:03. 8, Ott, Bonk 4 (Cunneyworth, Duchesne), 10:15 (pp). 9, Har, Emerson 5 (Kron, Wesley), 11:35 (pp).

Shots on goal-Har 14-3-6-23. Ott 12-14-11-37.Power-play opp.-Har 2 of 4; Ott 1 of 6.Goalies-Har, Reese 1-1-0 (37 shots34 saves). Ott, Beaupre 6-5-0 (17-13), Bales (7:07 second, 6-5).A-8,794 (10,575).

Canadiens 4, Bruins 1

Montreal

Rookie Saku Koivu had a goal and two assists as Montreal beat slumping Boston.

Koivu scored a power-play goal on Blaine Lacher in the second period and set up goals from Valeri Bure, formerly of the Spokane Chiefs, and Benoit Brunet in the first for Montreal, which is 7-6-0 after an 0-5 start.

Boston 0 1 0 - 1 Montreal 2 2 0 - 4

First period-1, Mon, Bure 1 (Koivu, Odelein), 5:45. 2, Mon, Brunet 7 (Koivu, Damphousse), 19:21 (pp).

Second Round-3, Mon, Koivu 4 (Brunet, Quintal), 1:45 (pp). 4, Bos, Leach 3 (Stevens, Donato), 10:57 (pp). 5, Mon, Savage 12 (Recchi, Turgeon), 11:18.

Third period-None.

Shots on goal-Bos 14-11-11-36. Mon 11-11-4-26.Power-play opp.-Bos 1 of 7; Mon 2 of 5.Goalies-Bos, Lacher 1-4-2 (26 shots-22 saves). Mon, Roy 7-5-0 (36-35).A-17,959 (16,259).

Penguins 7, Flyers 4

Pittsburgh

Ron Francis and Markus Naslund scored goals 34 seconds apart in the second period as Pittsburgh stretched its unbeaten streak to five games by beating injury-depleted Philadelphia.

The Flyers are winless in Pittsburgh since Nov. 21, 1990, going 0-9-4 in their last 13 visits.

Mario Lemieux had two goals and two assists as the Penguins improved to 4-0-1 over the last five games. Lemieux has points in all nine of his games this season and has eight multiple-point games.

Philadelphia 0 2 2 - 4 Pittsburgh 2 3 2 - 7

First period-1, Pit, Nedved 4 (Smolinski, Mironov), 2:11 (pp). 2, Pit, Lemieux 11 (Maciver, Naslund), 16:22.

Second period-3, Pit, Francis 8 (Smolinski, Jagr), 6:19. 4, Pit, Naslund 3 (Lemieux, Sandstrom), 6:53. 5, Phi, Fedyk 5 (Svoboda, Brind’Amour), 14:59 (pp). 6, Phi, Juhlin 2 (Dineen, Svoboda), 18:55 (pp). 7, Pit, Murray 1 (Maciver, Nedved), 19:54.

Third period-8, Phi, Montgomery 1 (DiMaio), 3:06. 9, Pit, Jagr 11 (Lemieux, Maciver), 4:54 (pp). 10, Phi, Juhlin 3 (Samuelsson), 6:55. 11, Pit, Lemieux 12 (Jagr, Francis), 19:36 (en).

Shots on goal-Phi 12-10-15-37. Pit 13-16-7-36.Power-play opp.-Phi 2 of 7; Pit 2 of 6.Goalies-Phi, Roussel (21 shots17 saves), Snow 1-1-1 (6:53 second, 14-12). Pit, Wregget (12-12), Barrasso 5-1-2 (0:00 second, 25-21).A-17,181 (17,181).

Red Wings 5, Stars 1

Detroit

Chris Osgood just missed posting his third shutout of the season and Nicklas Lidstrom had three assists for Detroit in its victory over Dallas.

Igor Larionov had a goal and an assist for the Red Wings.

Osgood stopped 19 of 20 shots in his fifth straight start. The Red Wings led 5-0 when Brent Gilchrist scored on a power play with 3:49 to play.

Dallas 0 0 1 - 1 Detroit 0 3 2 - 5

First period-None.

Second period-1, Det, Larionov 3 (Lidstrom, Johnson), 4:35 (pp). 2, Det, Fedorov 6 (Lidstrom, Yzerman), 6:46 (sh). 3, Det, Dandenault 2 (Errey, Yzerman), 11:28.

Third period-4, Det, Kozlov 3 (Fedorov, Larionov), 3:16. 5, Det, Johnson 1 (Pushor, Lidstrom), 11:36. 6, Dal, Gilchrist 3 (K.Hatcher, Zmolek), 16:11 (pp).

Shots on goal-Dal 9-4-7-20. Det 8-9-12-29.Power-play opp.-Dal 1 of 7; Det 1 of 2.Goalies-Dal, Moog 2-3-1 (29 shots24 saves). Det, Osgood 6-2-1 (20-19).A-19,852 (19,875).

Capitals 3, Islanders 2

Uniondale, N.Y.

Peter Bondra scored twice and Olaf Kolzig stopped 24 shots as Washington beat New York.

Ken Klee had the other goal for the Capitals, who have won five straight from the Islanders and won in eight in their last 10 visits to Nassau Coliseum.

Chris Luongo and Alexander Semak scored for the Islanders, who have the second-worst record in the NHL at 2-8-2. It is the second-worst start after 12 games in Islanders history, behind only the 2-9-1 getaway in their first season in 1972-73.

Washington 1 1 1 - 3 N.Y. Islanders 0 0 2 - 2

First period-1, Was, Bondra 6 (Juneau, Konowalchuk), 3:44 (pp).

Second period-2, Was, Klee 3 (Hunter, Cote), 7:47.

Third period-3, NY, Luongo 1 (Bertuzzi), 12:26. 4, Was, Bondra 7 (Pivonka, Konowalchuk), 13:19. 5, NY, Semak 4 (Muller, Palffy), 16:24.

Shots on goal-Was 11-8-6-25. NY 6-7-13-26Power-play opp.-Was 1 of 5; NY 0 of 5.Goalies-Was, Kolzig 2-2-0 (26 shots-24 saves). NY, Soderstrom 1-5-1 (25-22).A-9,076 (16,297).

Sharks 7, Blues 3

San Jose, Calif.

Owen Nolan had a goal and three assists as San Jose finally won its first game of the season, scoring five straight goals in the third period to defeat St. Louis.

The Sharks, who had gone 0-7-4 in their first 11 games, scored the last six goals of the game against a Blues team missing leading scorer Brett Hull for the first time in more than two years.

St. Louis 2 1 0 - 3 San Jose 1 1 5 - 7

First period-1, StL, Courtnall 1 (Norton, Hawerchuk), 7:11 (pp). 2, StL, Vopat 1 (Noonan, Zezel), 10:59. 3, SJ, Janney 3 (Ragnarsson, Nolan), 15:24 (pp).

Second period-4, StL, Noonan 4 (Hawerchuk), 3:14. 5, SJ, Friesen 1 (Sykora), 15:09.

Third period-6, SJ, Baker 3 (Nolan, Janney), 3:07. 7, SJ, Miller 4 (Nolan, Kroupa), 6:05. 8, SJ, Nolan 6 (Janney, Whitney), 9:41 (pp). 9, SJ, Nazarov 3 (Friesen, Kroupa), 11:08 (pp). 10, SJ, Dahlen 4, 16:20.

Shots on goal-StL 9-9-2-20. SJ 10-5-13-28.Power-play opp.-StL 1 of 5; SJ 3 of 6.Goalies-StL, Fuhr 5-7-1 (28 shots21 saves). SJ, Irbe 1-4-4 (20-17).A-17,190 (17,190).

Devils 4, Kings 2

Inglewood, Calif.

Neal Broten scored his second goal of the game with 6:07 to play and Esa Tikkanen had two assists as New Jersey snapped a four-game winless streak with the victory over Los Angeles.

Yanic Perreault scored on a power play midway through the third period and rookie Vitali Yachmenev had a goal and an assist for Los Angeles.

New Jersey 2 0 2 - 4 Los Angeles 1 0 1 - 2

First period-1, NJ, Peluso 1 (Tikkanen, McKay), 3:31. 2, LA, Yachmenev 7 (Gretzky, Khristich), 8:33. 3, NJ, Broten 2 (Tikkanen, Niedermayer), 10:57 (pp).

Second period-None.

Third period-4, LA, Perreault 8 (Khristich, Yachmenev), 9:46 (pp). 5, NJ, Broten 3 (Dowd), 13:53. 6, NJ, Stevens 2, 19:02 (shen).

Shots on goal-NJ 14-13-10-37. LA 9-11-13-33.Power-play opp.-NJ 1 of 3; LA 1 of 7.Goalies-NJ, Terreri 2-0-0 (33 shots-31 saves). LA, Dafoe 4-3-4 (36-33).A-15,540 (16,005).

Canucks 4, Flames 4

Calgary, Alberta

Calgary’s Ron Stern scored his first goal of the season midway through the third period to give the Flames a tie against Vancouver.

The right wing skated into the slot and slapped a shot past goalie Kirk McLean, who had been caught down and out of position after diving out of the crease in an attempt to clear a loose puck.

Vancouver 0 3 1 0 - 4 Calgary 1 2 1 0 - 4

First Period-1, Cal, Titov 3 (Torgajev, Nylander), 7:20.

Second Period-2, Cal, Lapointe 1, 4:27 (sh). 3, Cal, Fleury 4 (Sullivan), 6:23 (sh). 4, Van, Linden 6 (Ridley, Hedican), 7:35 (pp). 5, Van, Bure 5 (Mogilny, Beranek), 9:00. 6, Van, Beranek 2 (Odjick), 13:53.

Third Period-7, Van, Linden 7 (Gelinas), 6:43. 8, Cal, Stern 1 (Fleury), 8:57.

Overtime-None.

Shots on goal-Van 4-15-8-0-27. Cal 15-11-9-2-37.Power-play opp.-Van 1 of 3; Cal 0 of 3.Goalies-Van, McLean 3-3-4 (37 shots-33 saves). Cal, Kidd 0-5-4 (27-23).A-18,717 (20,230).

Maple Leafs 3, Oilers 3

Edmonton, Alberta

Jason Arnott’s goal late in the third period lifted Edmonton into a tie with Toronto.

Arnott fired a quick shot between Toronto goaltender Felix Potvin and the post, extending Edmonton’s unbeaten streak to six games (3-0-3). It was the second tie in as many nights for the Maple Leafs (5-5-3).

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

First Period-1, Tor, Domi 1 (Momesso, Murphy), 2:29.

Second Period-2, Tor, Warriner 2 (Craig, Sundin), 2:13. 3, Edm, Buchberger 4 (Thornton, Marchant), 10:00. 4, Tor, Kolesar 1 (Craig, Murphy), 13:10. 5, Edm, Mironov 1 (Thornton), 18:54.

Third Period-6, Edm, Arnott 4 (Ciger, Weight), 17:37.

Overtime-None.

Shots on goal-Tor 7-11-2-1-21. Edm 14-14-6-2-36.Power-play opp.-Tor 0 of 5; Edm 0 of 10.Goalies-Tor, Potvin 4-4-2 (36 shots-33 saves). Edm, Ranford 4-4-3 (21-18).A-13,838 (16,230).

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