NY Islanders battle to beat Bruins as Wings zap Hawks

Shawn Bates scored with 28.2 seconds left in overtime and the New York Islanders recovered from two blown leads to beat the Boston Bruins 4-3 Tuesday.

Bates a breakout pass from Jason Blake in front of defenseman Jiri Slegr and came in alone on rookie Hannu Toivonen. His quick shot got through for his second goal of the season.

Joe Thornton tied it for Boston with only 1:01 left in regulation, just after the Bruins pulled Toivonen for an extra attacker. It was the Bruins' fourth overtime loss in six games.

Oleg Kvasha, Janne Niinimaa and Chris Campoli also scored for the Islanders. Garth Snow made 29 saves in his second start of the season.

Dave Scatchard and Nick Boynton had goals for the Bruins, and Toivonen stopped 19 shots.

Red Wings 4, Blackhawks 1

At Detroit, Chris Osgood made 23 saves after replacing the injured Manny Legace, and Detroit downed Chicagto for its ninth straight win.

Jason Williams had a goal and an assist for the Red Wings (12-1-0) and Kirk Maltby, Brett Lebda, and Brendan Shanahan also scored in the third straight game between the teams.

Nikolai Khabibulin stopped 16 shots for the Blackhawks.

Penguins 4, Devils 3, OT

At East Rutherford, New Jersey, Sergei Gonchar scored 1:01 into overtime to lift Pittsburgh past New Jersey and to its second victory of the season.

Gonchar the puck in his own end, split the Devils' defense and shoveled a backhander past goalie Scott Clemmensen.

The overtime period was the sixth for the Penguins (2-5-5) this season. They had lost all five previous times, four during the overtime period and one on a sudden-death shootout.

Sebastien Caron, who finished with 26 saves, held the Devils to one goal until midway through the third period, then gave up goals to Brian Gionta and Erik Rasmussen. Rasmussen's goal tied the game with 2:12 left.

Mark Recchi, Lasse Pirjeta and Maxime Talbot also scored for the Penguins.

Jamie Langenbrunner scored a goal, and Clemmensen stopped 33 shots for the Devils.

Canadiens 5, Panthers 4, OT

At Montreal, Michael Ryder scored his second overtime goal of the season on a power play, leading Montreal over Florida.

Steve Begin scored a power-play goal with 8.1 seconds left in regulation to tie it at 4-4 for the Canadiens. Ryder then one-timed Saku Koivu's pass beyond Montreal native Roberto Luongo 3:19 into the extra period.

Stephen Weiss scored a pair of third-period power-play goals to give the Panthers a 4-3 lead, their first of the game.

Defensemen Craig Rivet and Francis Bouillon scored power-play goals, and Richard Zednik also scored for Northeast Division-leading Montreal.

Jose Theodore stopped 26 shots to won for the second straight night.

Luongo made 33 saves for New York.

Oilers 5, Blue Jackets 1

At Edmonton, Alberta, Ales Hemsky scored twice and Edmonton beat Columbus for its third straight win.

Todd Harvey and Raffi Torres also scored for the Oilers.

Flames 3, Wild 0

At Calgary, Alberta, Jarome Iginla scored twice and Miikka Kiprusoff stopped 23 shots for his second shutout of the season for Calgary.

Phaneuf also scored for Calgary (5-7-2).