Martin Biron earned his 200th NHL win and 26th career shutout, and Jeff Tambellini scored three goals for his first career hat trick as the New York Islanders routed the Buffalo Sabres 5-0 Saturday.Biron made 38 saves in his first victory with the Islanders since joining the club during the offseason.
Tambellini, who never had a two-goal game in his first four NHL seasons, now has two in four games. The Islanders won for the third time in four days to improve to 4-4-5 this season. Richard Park and Josh Bailey added goals for New York, which also beat the New York Rangers and Washington Capitals this week.
Biron turned aside 10 power-play shots for his first shutout since Feb. 25, when he was with Philadelphia.
Flyers 6, Hurricanes 1
At Philadelphia, Braydon Coburn scored twice to help Philadelphia snap a two-game losing streak and send Carolina to its eighth straight loss.
Scott Hartnell and Matt Carle each had a goal and two assists, and David Laliberte, playing in his first NHL game, and James Van Riemsdyk each had a goal and an assist for the Flyers, unbeaten in their last six regulation games at home against Carolina.
Brandon Sutter scored for the Hurricanes, off to their worst start since 1997 _ the franchise's first season in Carolina.
Wild 2, Penguins 1
At Pittsburgh, Niklas Backstrom made 34 saves as Minnesota won on the road for the first time this season.
Kyle Brodziak and Eric Belanger scored in the first period for the Wild, who avoided being the first NHL team in 17 years to start 0-9 on the road. Including Minnesota's victory over the New York Rangers on Friday, the Wild won consecutive games for the first time this season.
Bruins 2, Oilers 0
At Boston, rookie Tuukka Rask turned aside 19 shots for his second shutout in eight NHL starts, and Vladimir Sobotka and Blake Wheeler set each other up for goals to lead Boston over Edmonton.
Rask was locked in a scoreless duel with veteran Nikolai Khabibulin until Wheeler converted on Sobotka's hard work 2:47 into the third period. Sobotka finished off a 2-on-1 at 7:02.
Daniel Paille assisted on both goals.
Thrashers 3, Senators 1
At Ottawa, Ondrej Pavelec made 50 saves, and Rich Peverley had a goal and assist for Atlanta, which broke a four-game losing streak by beating Ottawa.
Zach Bogosian and Maxim Afinogenov also scored for the Thrashers (5-4-1), who played without injured captain Ilya Kovalchuk.
Devils 2, Lightning 1, SO
At Tampa, Florida, David Clarkson scored the lone shootout goal in the fourth round of the tiebreaker and New Jersey extended its road winning streak to seven games.
The run at the start of the season equals the second longest in NHL history, matching Toronto (1940-41), Philadelphia (1985-86) and Detroit (2005-06). Buffalo holds the league record of 10 in a row, set at the beginning of the 2006-07 season.
Panthers 4, Blues 0
At St. Louis, Tomas Vokoun stopped all 34 shots for his 32nd NHL shutout and Nathan Horton had a goal and an assist as Florida beat St. Louis.
Cory Stillman, Stephen Weiss and Dennis Seidenberg also scored for the Panthers, who won Friday night in a shootout at Dallas. The back-to-back wins matched Florida's win total for the month before Friday.
Predators 4, Stars 2
At Nashville, Tennessee, Patric Hornqvist and Kevin Klein scored goals 1:43 apart midway through the third period to lead Nashville over Dallas.
The teams traded power-play goals in the first. Steve Ott scored for Dallas and Shea Weber answered for Nashville. James Neal assisted on Ott's goal, giving him a point in a career-high six consecutive games.
Dallas took a 2-1 lead at 2:15 of the second on a goal by Brian Sutherby, but Nashville countered 62 seconds later on Steve Sullivan's first goal since the season opener in Dallas.
Canadiens 5, Maple Leafs 4, SO
At Montreal, Mike Cammalleri and Scott Gomez scored in a shootout to lift Montreal over Toronto after squandering a two-goal lead in the third period.
Alexei Ponikarovsky scored his second goal of the game before Tomas Kaberle tied it with 54 seconds left in regulation.
Both Montreal shooters beat Vesa Toskala in the shootout. Jaroslav Halak stopped Lee Stempniak and Kaberle in Toronto's first shootout of the season.
The Canadiens got goals from Glen Metropolit, Guillaume Latendresse and Hal Gill in the second period. Roman Hamrlik scored in the third. Stempniak also scored for Toronto.