Sjostrom and Hanzal lead Coyotes to 4-1 victory over Devils

Fredrik Sjostrom scored twice and Martin Hanzal had a goal and three assists to lead the Phoenix Coyotes over the New Jersey Devils 4-1 in the NHL on Saturday.

Goalie Mikael Tellqvist, a backup since the arrival of Ilya Bryzgalov, made 30 saves in his first start for Phoenix since Nov. 12. He lost the shutout when Zach Parise scored a short-handed goal with six minutes remaining.

Radim Vrbata also scored for the Coyotes, who are 2-1 at the midpoint of a season-high six-game road trip.

The loss ended the Devils' five-game winning streak at home and was only their third loss in the last 13 games.

Stars 4, Sharks 2

At San Jose, California, Mike Ribeiro and Brenden Morrow each had a goal and an assist for Dallas, which has won five straight games in San Jose.

Antti Miettinen scored the go-ahead goal and Steve Ott added an empty-netter for Dallas.

Devin Setoguchi and Patrick Rissmiller had goals for San Jose.

Marty Turco made 16 saves in his 17th win against San Jose in 26 games.

Sabres 3, Blackhawks 1

At Buffalo, New York, Thomas Vanek had a goal and assist, and Ryan Miller made 26 saves to spoil Patrick Kane's homecoming and help lift Buffalo over Chicago.

Drew Stafford and Jason Pominville also scored, and Derek Roy added two assists for Buffalo, which won its third straight.

The game was Kane's first in his hometown. The No. 1 overall pick in this year's draft grew up near the Sabres' downtown arena, and had about 500 family and friends in attendance.

Red Wings 5, Panthers 2

At Detroit, Dan Cleary and Brian Rafalski scored in a 1:04 span early in the third period to break a tie, and Valtteri Filppula converted one of Detroit's two penalty shots in a victory over Florida.

Rafalski added an assist, Pavel Datsyuk also had a goal and an assist, and Johan Franzen had a goal for the NHL-leading Red Wings, 3-for-6 on the power play.

Henrik Zetterberg had two assists, and Chris Osgood made 33 saves.

Olli Jokinen and Radek Dvorak scored for Florida, and Tomas Vokoun stopped 41 shots.

Senators 7, Thrashers 3

At Ottawa, Dany Heatley scored twice, and Antoine Vermette had a goal and two assists in Ottawa's win over Atlanta.

Nick Foligno, Chris Kelly, Joe Corvo and Andrej Meszaros also scored for the Senators, who played their first home game in two weeks. Jason Spezza had two assists.

Ottawa won its fifth straight following a seven-game losing streak. Atlanta has dropped four in a row.

Ilya Kovalchuk scored twice for the Thrashers, and Eric Perrin added Atlanta's other goal. Marian Hossa had two assists in the loss.

Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 1

At Montreal, Saku Koivu scored twice and Carey Price made 28 saves to lead Montreal over Toronto.

Andrei Kostitsyn and Alex Kovalev also scored for the Canadiens, who had lost six straight at home.

Price, a 20-year-old rookie making his sixth straight start, came within 4:06 of recording his first NHL shutout.

Boyd Devereaux scored for Toronto _ his fifth of the season _ 15:54 into the third period.

Bruins 2, Blue Jackets 0

At Boston, Jeremy Reich scored his first NHL goal and Alex Auld stopped 32 shots for his first shutout with Boston.

Auld, acquired from Phoenix on Dec. 6 after starting goalie Tim Thomas went down with a strained groin, improved to 4-1 with Boston. It was his fourth career shutout and second this season.

The Bruins remained the only team not to lose consecutive regulation games despite getting only 18 shots.

Marco Sturm added an empty-net goal with 11.9 seconds left to ruin Columbus' first visit to Boston since January 2003.

Penguins 3, Islanders 2

At Uniondale, New York, Tyler Kennedy scored the winning goal and added two assists for Pittsburgh, which snapped a two-game losing streak and beat New York.

Sidney Crosby and Ryan Whitney also scored for Pittsburgh, which got 27 saves from Dany Sabourin.

Rick DiPietro stopped 37 shots for the Islanders. Richard Park and Josef Vasicek had goals for New York.

Capitals 3, Lightning 2

At Tampa, Florida, Brian Pothier scored a power-play goal in third period to help Washington beat Tampa Bay.

Thomas Fleischmann and David Steckel added goals, and Brent Johnson made 23 saves.

Paul Ranger and Vincent Lecavalier scored for Tampa Bay, and Johan Holmqvist made 29 saves after being pulled from his previous two starts.

Hurricanes 6, Flyers 5, SO

At Philadelphia, Rod Brind'Amour banked a shootout shot in off the crossbar to lift Carolina.

Brind'Amour's goal came after teammates Matt Cullen and Jeffrey Hamilton traded tallies in the tiebreaker with Philadelphia's Mike Richards and Joffrey Lupul.

Niclas Wallin, who also had an assist, Cullen, Eric Staal, and Trevor Letowski scored in regulation for the Southeast Division leaders, who snapped a three-game losing streak.

Lupul scored three goals _ his second hat trick in three games _ and Scott Hartnell and Danny Briere also scored for the Flyers.