Maple Leafs Power Past Penguins, 4-1
NHL
Kirk Muller and Mats Sundin scored on consecutive power plays late in the second period and the Toronto Maple Leafs took advantage of a rare off-night from Mario Lemieux to beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 4-1 Monday night at Toronto.
With the score tied 1-1 late in the second period, Pittsburgh right wing Glen Murray took consecutive minor penalties and the Maple Leafs scored on both power plays.
Doug Gilmour and Dave Andreychuk also scored for Toronto.
Maple Leafs 4, Penguins 1
Pittsburgh 0 1 0 - 1
Toronto 0 3 1 - 4
First period-None. Second period-1, Tor, Gilmour 19 (Murphy), 6:00 (pp). 2, Pit, Mironov 3 (Nedved, Francis), 13:42 (pp). 3, Tor, Andreychuk 16, 18:07 (pp). 4, Tor, Muller 6 (Andreychuk, Sundin), 18:55 (pp). Third period-5, Tor, Sundin 24 (Gagner), 5:06 (sh).
Shots on goal-Pit 6-11-22-39. Tor 10-13-9-32.Power-play opp.-Pit 1 of 9; Tor 3 of 8.Goalies-Pit, Wregget 14-11-2 (32 shots-28 saves). Tor, Potvin 20-16-9 (39-38).A-15,746 (15,746).
Senators 4, Islanders 1
Uniondale, N.Y.
Tom Chorske scored twice and Damian Rhodes stopped 29 shots as Ottawa won back-to-back games for the first time since October with a victory over New York.
Pavol Demitra and Dave Archibald each scored their second goal of the season for the Senators, who are 3-7-1 since Jacques Martin took over as head coach on Jan. 23.
Ottawa 3 1 0 - 4
N.Y. Islanders 0 0 1 - 1
First period-1, Ott, Chorske 6, 3:47 (sh). 2, Ott, Demitra 2 (McCleary), 15:19. 3, Ott, Archibald 2 (Demitra), 17:59. Second period-4, Ott, Chorske 7, 11:14. Third period-5, NY, Palffy 22 (Andersson, Severyn), 6:38.
Shots on goal-Ott 11-8-5-24. NY 6-13-11-30.Powerplay opp.-Ott 0 of 3; NY 0 of 4.Goalies-Ott, Rhodes 3-7-1 (30 shots-29 saves). NY, Fichaud 3-2-0 (11-8), Soderstrom (0:00 second, 13-12).A-7,567 (16,297).
Canadiens 3, Sharks 0
Montreal
Pierre Turgeon’s third-period goal broke a scoreless tie and Montreal went on to victory over San Jose.
The Canadiens were on a power play when Turgeon trailed in, took Martin Rucinsky’s pass and put a wrist shot to the top corner past Chris Terreri at 6:54.
San Jose 0 0 0 - 0
Montreal 0 0 3 - 3
First period-None. Second period-None. Third period-1, Mon, Turgeon 26 (Rucinsky, Recchi), 6:54 (pp). 2, Mon, Rucinsky 20 (Damphousse, Bure), 18:53 (en). 3, Mon, Turgeon 27 19:41 (en).
Shots on goal-SJ 10-3-8-21. Mon 7-9-11-27.Powerplay opp.-SJ 0 of 5; Mon 1 of 6.Goalies-SJ, Terreri 11-21-1 (25 shots-24 saves). Mon, Thibault 15-10-3 (21-21).A-16,905 (16,259).
Player of the week
Jason Muzzatti, the rookie goaltender on the Hartford Whalers, was picked Monday as NHL player of the week.
Muzzatti went 3-0 last week, the first three wins of his NHL career.