Shanahan leads Rangers past Devils
Brendan Shanahan ripped a shot past Martin Brodeur 30 seconds into overtime, breaking a scoreless tie and snapping the New Jersey Devils’ nine-game winning streak in the New York Rangers’ 1-0 victory Sunday in New York.
New York crisply moved the puck in the New Jersey zone, and Shanahan teed up a pass from Scott Gomez in the slot and put the Rangers’ 29th shot past Brodeur. It was the only shot in the extra session.
Henrik Lundqvist made 17 saves for his fifth shutout of the season. The Rangers snapped a three-game losing streak and improved to 4-0 against the Devils this season.
New Jersey hadn’t lost four straight to the Rangers since a six-game skid during New York’s run to the Stanley Cup title in the 1993-94 season.
The Devils will have to settle for matching the third-best winning streak in franchise history, falling four short of tying the team mark.
Red Wings 5, Hurricanes 2: At Detroit, Andreas Lilja’s second-period goal broke a tie and the Red Wings defeated Carolina.
Valtteri Filppula, Johan Franzen, Pavel Datsyuk and Tomas Holmstrom also scored for NHL-leading Detroit, which won its sixth straight, and Jiri Hudler had three assists. Dominik Hasek made 15 saves.
Erik Cole scored both of the Hurricanes’ goals and Cam Ward stopped 31 shots.
Flames 3, Blackhawks 2: At Chicago, defenseman Cory Sarich’s goal with 8:41 left snapped a 1-1 tie and Calgary beat the Blackhawks, handing Chicago its season-high fourth straight loss.
Calgary’s Daymond Langkow scored a power-play goal from the left point with 6:08 left to make it 3-1. Chicago’s Dustin Byfuglien then scored 47 second later on a backhand shot from the slot to complete the scoring.
Avalanche 9, Blues 5: At Denver, Milan Hejduk notched his fifth career hat trick and added three assists to lead Colorado past St. Louis.
Paul Stastny had two goals and three assists, Ryan Smyth had a goal and two assists and Wojtek Wolski had two goals for the Avalanche, who won the 1,000th game in franchise history and did it with the highest goal tally in the league so far this season.