NHL Capsules
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -Martin Brodeur tied Terry Sawchuk's NHL record with his 103rd shutout, leading the New Jersey Devils to a 3-0 victory over the Buffalo Sabres on Monday night.
Brodeur was rarely tested in making 22 saves to tie Sawchuk, who played from 1949-70. It was Brodeur's second shutout of the season after he blanked Carolina on Oct. 17.
The NHL's winningest goalie, Brodeur earned his league-leading 18th victory of the season. He preserved the shutout with a lightning-quick glove stop on Buffalo defenseman Steve Montador's wrist shot from the slot 5 minutes into the third period.
Brian Rolston, Travis Zajac and Niclas Bergfors scored for New Jersey (20-7-1), owners of the best road record (11-2-1) and a three-game winning streak.
Ryan Miller finished with 34 saves for Buffalo.
Capitals 3, Lightning 0
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Alex Ovechkin scored two goals in his return from a two-game suspension and Washington beat the Lightning for the 12th consecutive time.
Ovechkin was suspended by the NHL following a kneeing penalty during a Nov. 30 game with Carolina. Both of his goals came during the Capitals' three-goal second.
Semyon Varlamov, who turned aside a spinning backhander by Vincent Lecavalier in the second, finished with 26 saves.
Eric Fehr also scored for Capitals. Tampa Bay has lost five of six.
Maple Leafs 5, Thrashers 2
TORONTO (AP) - Vesa Toskala made 22 saves in his first start since Nov. 23 and Alexei Ponikarovsky scored goals 28 seconds apart for the Maple Leafs.
Lee Stempniak, Matt Stajan and Mikhail Grabovski also had goals for the Maple Leafs. It was the first time Toronto (8-13-7) won a weekday game at home this season and it came against one of the NHL's best road teams. The Thrashers entered with an away record of 9-2-1.
Bryan Little and Marty Reasoner scored for Atlanta (15-8-3).
Canadiens 3, Flyers 1
MONTREAL (AP) - Mike Cammalleri notched his team-leading 16th goal after Andrei Kostitsyn scored on Montreal's third shot of the game in the second period.
Carey Price made 14 saves and Marc-Andre Bergeron also scored for Montreal, which won its second in a row following an 0-3-1 skid despite managing just 13 shots, including one in the opening period.
Daniel Briere scored an unassisted goal in the first for Philadelphia, which lost its fifth in a row, including an 8-2 loss to Washington on Saturday in Peter Laviolette's debut behind the Flyers' bench.
Avalanche 4, Blues 0
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Peter Budaj stopped 35 shots, Chris Stewart had two goals and an assist and Colorado ended a five-game trip with a shutout.
Paul Stastny and Matt Duchene each scored goals, Wojtek Wolski had three assists and John-Michael Liles collected two assists for the Avs.
Budaj earned his seventh career shutout and first this season in his fifth start.
The Blues, who have an NHL-worst 5-9-3 home mark, were coming off two road victories that came by shootout. They have yet to win three games in a row this season.
Hurricanes 3, Penguins 2
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Manny Legace stopped 30 shots, Ray Whitney had the decisive goal and an assist and Carolina won on the road for the first time this season.
Eric Staal and Joni Pitkanen each had two assists and Andrew Alberts and Jussi Jokinen also scored as Carolina ended its 13-game road losing streak (0-10-3).
Sidney Crosby and Mike Rupp scored less than a minute apart in the second, but the Penguins couldn't do any other damage against Legace, who is 4-0 in his career against Pittsburgh.
Oilers 3, Panthers 2, SO
SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) - Shawn Horcoff scored once in regulation and again in the shootout, leading the Edmonton over the Panthers on Monday night.
Dustin Penner also scored and Jeff Deslauriers made 33 saves for Edmonton. Deslauriers was playing in his ninth straight game while starter Nikolai Khabibulin recovers from a back injury.
Dominic Moore scored two goals for the Panthers and Tomas Vokoun stopped 26 shots.
Edmonton's Robert Nilsson and Florida's Rostislav Olesz each had shootout goals before Horcoff's decided it.
Coyotes 2, Wild 0
PHOENIX (AP) - Scottie Upshall and Taylor Pyatt snapped a scoreless tie with second-period goals 44 seconds apart, Ilya Bryzgalov recorded his NHL-leading fourth shutout and the Coyotes won their fifth straight.
Bryzgalov made 28 saves and Pyatt scored for the third straight game after getting only one in his first 20 games. The Coyotes last won five in a row Dec. 31, 2007, to Jan. 8, 2008, and have built this one without scoring a single power-play goal (0-for-17).
The Wild had their five-game winning streak snapped and were 6-0-1 since losing to the Coyotes 3-2 in Minnesota on Nov. 18.
Kings 2, Flames 1
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Scott Parse and Jarret Stoll scored early goals, and the Kings beat road-weary Calgary for their fifth victory in seven games.
Jonathan Quick made 26 saves, carrying the Kings with a series of outstanding stops during the scoreless final 35 minutes.
Curtis Glencross scored and Miikka Kiprusoff stopped 15 shots for the Flames, who finished a successful six-game road trip with their second visit in 16 days to the Staples Center.
The Kings snapped a three-game home losing streak to the Flames with just their second win in 13 meetings.
