DETROIT – Curtis Joseph earned his 40th career shutout, and Igor Larionov had a goal and two assists as the Detroit Red Wings beat the Minnesota Wild 4-0 Tuesday night.
Joseph, who has four shutouts this season, was forced to make only 18 saves. Sergei Fedorov, Henrik Zetterberg and Tomas Holmstrom scored the other goals, and Mathieu Schneider had two assists.
Larionov gave Detroit the lead just 1:57 in when he scored on a breakaway. His slap shot from the inside edge of the left circle beat Dwayne Roloson. Roloson defeated the Red Wings 4-0 on Sunday.
Fedorov scored a power-play goal 1:28 into the second period. He put in a wrist shot from the bottom of the left circle after taking a pass from Larionov. The goal was Fedorov’s 31st of the season and 395th of his career.
Avalanche 2, Senators 2
OTTAWA – Alex Tanguay scored with 10.2 seconds left in regulation to lift the Colorado Avalanche to a 2-2 tie with the Ottawa Senators on Tuesday night.
Tanguay took a pass from Peter Forsberg in front of the Senators goal and beat Patrick Lalime after Vaclav Varada’s power-play tally gave Ottawa the lead with less than a minute to go.
Rob Blake also scored for Colorado, which has just one loss in four games and prevented the Senators from recording their franchise-record 49th win.
Hurricanes 3, Maple Leafs 3
RALEIGH, N.C. – Jeff O’Neill scored with 33 seconds left in regulation as the Carolina Hurricanes avoided a season sweep against the Toronto Maple Leafs with a 3-3 tie Tuesday night.
O’Neill scored his team-leading 30th of the season 27 seconds after Carolina pulled Kevin Weekes for an extra skater. O’Neill took a centering pass from Ron Francis and beat Trevor Kidd with a low shot from the slot.
Capitals 4, Canadiens 3
MONTREAL – Josef Boumedienne scored 3:09 into overtime to lift the Washington Capitals – who tied it three times in the third period – to a 4-3 victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Tuesday night.
Boumedienne beat goalie Jose Theodore to complete a passing play with Jaromir Jagr and Sergei Berezin that evened Washington’s six-game, cross-Canada road trip at 2-2.
Jagr, Washington’s leading scorer with 74 points, returned after missing six games because of a wrist injury.
Berezin got even with 3:08 remaining in regulation after Robert Lang and Dainius Zubrus scored tying goals earlier in the period. Chad Kilger, Richard Zednik and Donald Audette scored for Montreal, which moved closer to missing the playoffs for the fourth time in five seasons. The Canadiens are 10th in the East.
Flyers 1, Predators 1
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Mark Eaton scored his second goal of the season with 1:24 left in regulation Tuesday night as the Nashville Predators salvaged a 1-1 tie with the Philadelphia Flyers but were still eliminated from playoff contention.
Nashville was just three points out of the eighth spot in the Western Conference on March 1, but the Predators have not won since March 7 in a winless skid that reached nine games Tuesday (0-5-3-1).
The Flyers, who already have a playoff spot clinched and are trying catch Atlantic Division-leading New Jersey, outshot Nashville 43-21. Philadelphia trails New Jersey by three points.
Islanders 9, Blackhawks 2
CHICAGO – Alexei Yashin scored four goals, and five New York teammates also scored as the Islanders routed the Chicago Blackhawks 9-2 Tuesday night.
Yashin had the first four-goal game of his career and has six goals and four assists in his last three games. Mark Parrish, Justin Papineau, Oleg Kvasha, Dave Scatchard and Arron Asham also scored for New York.
The Islanders lead the New York Rangers by six points for the eighth and final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. Both teams have six games remaining, including a head-to-head contest at Nassau Coliseum on April 1.
The victory marked the first time the Islanders won at Chicago since October 7, 1990. The Islanders are 2-11-5 in their last 18 games against the Blackhawks.
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