Rod Brind'Amour scored in the fourth round of a shootout to lift the Carolina Hurricanes to their eighth straight victory, 4-3 over the Philadelphia Flyers on Tuesday.
Erik Cole's breakaway goal for Carolina with 3:58 left in regulation sent it to overtime as the Flyers twice wasted two-goal leads in the third period.
Matt Cullen and Oleg Tverdovsky also scored in regulation to help the Hurricanes move past Ottawa for the NHL lead with 66 points. The Flyers are two points behind.
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Ray Whitney and Cullen also beat Antero Niittymaki in the shootout, and Martin Gerber stopped Jeff Carter to win it.
The Hurricanes haven't lost since the Flyers beat them 4-3 in overtime on Dec. 29. Carolina's last loss in regulation was at Ottawa on Dec. 28.
Carter, Kim Johnsson and Freddy Meyer scored goals for Philadelphia, which has lost three straight games.
Devils 5, Blues 3
At St. Louis, Martin Brodeur broke a tie with Hall of Famer Tony Esposito for fifth place on the NHL's career victory list, making 26 saves for New Jersey.
Brodeur has 424 victories to pass Esposito on a career list for the second time this month. The New Jersey star recorded his 77th career shutout Jan. 9 against Philadelphia, good for seventh on that list.
Brian Gionta scored the game's first two goals, Grant Marshall got the go-ahead goal, John Madden and Jay Pandolfo also scored and Patrik Elias had three assists in New Jersey's seventh straight victory.
Dennis Wideman, Doug Weight and Mike Sillinger scored for St. Louis. The Blues have lost seven in a row.
Islanders 2, Blackhawks 1, OT
At Chicago, Oleg Kvasha beat Chicago rookie goalie Adam Munro off a rebound at 3:02 of overtime, and Rick DiPietro made 34 saves for New York.
Alexei Yashin scored in regulation for New York, coming off an 8-1 home to loss to Vancouver on Saturday night when DiPietro was pulled in the second period after allowing four goals on 13 shots. The Islanders are 3-9-0 in their last 12 games and 2-1 since Brad Shaw took over as interim coach following Steve Stirling's firing.
Jim Vandermeer scored for the Blackhawks, 2-11-2 in their last 15 games.
Avalanche 5, Maple Leafs 3
At Denver, Milan Hejduk scored a pair of power-play goals 34 seconds apart to lift Colorado to its eighth straight win and a tie for the Northwest Division lead.
Rookie Marek Svatos scored his 27th goal of the season, best in the Western Conference, to help Colorado match its longest winning streak since Oct. 10-28, 2000. Alex Tanguay and Cody McCormick also scored for Colorado.
Jeff O'Neill, Mats Sundin and Jason Allison scored for Toronto.
Lightning 4, Kings 1
In Los Angeles, Martin St. Louis and Vincent Lecavalier scored on power plays to end Tampa Bay's 0-for-40 drought with the man advantage, and Tampa Bay beat Los Angeles in their 1,000th regular-season game.
Ruslan also scored and Norman Milley scored his first NHL goal into an empty net. John Grahame made 22 saves, one of them on Sean Avery's penalty shot.
Dustin Brown scored for the Kings, who have lost four of their last five games.
Phoenix Coyotes captain Shane Doan sued a member of Parliament on Tuesday, contending that Denis Coderre falsely accused him of making a slur against French speakers during an NHL game.
Doan also demanded in the lawsuit filed in Quebec superior court that Coderre, a former sports minister, make a public retraction.
Coderre had asked the Canadian ice hockey federation in a letter Dec. 22 to expel Doan from Canada's Olympic team unless he apologized for the alleged slur to referee Stephane Auger at the end of a Dec. 13 game between the Coyotes and Montreal Canadiens. Copies of the letter were released to the media.
Doan denied making the remark and an investigation by the NHL found no evidence he used an ethnic slur.
Doan is seeking reparations for damages to his reputation over ``false and defamatory'' remarks made by Coderre, both in his letter to Hockey Canada and to the media. The player asked for C$200,000 (US$172,000) in moral damages and C$50,000 Canadian dollars (US$43,000) in punitive damages. The motion said Doan, who is earning US$3 million this season, would donate any money he is awarded to charity.
Coderre, the federal MP for the Montreal riding of Bourassa, said during a news conference Tuesday that he would not apologize and vowed to fight the lawsuit "right up to the end."
He said he asked the NHL for a copy of the referees' report on the incident and was turned down. He said he would attempt to have the report and the referees' account of the incident made public in court if necessary.
But Colin Campbell, the NHL's executive vice president and league disciplinarian, said Coderre won't see it.
"Our game reports are not for public dissemination and particularly not for politicians who may be using this whole disjointed affair to seemingly garner votes," Campbell told the Canadian Press.
Doan said he "did not make any comment that could be construed as derogatory toward French-speaking people during the hockey game. Such remarks are completely incompatible with the values I espouse as both a hockey player and a proud Canadian."
Doan, from Halkirk, Alberta, was given a misconduct penalty by Auger for verbal abuse of the officials at the end of the game won by Montreal at Bell Centre.
Both referees and both linesmen are French speakers.
Coderre repeated the alleged slur in his letter to Hockey Canada president Bob Nicholson, a copy of which was sent to Canadian Olympic Committee president Mike Chambers. Chambers concluded there was no evidence Doan made the remark and said he was told it may have been made by another player on the ice.
Doan made a request to Coderre on Dec. 23 that he retract his statements within 10 days.
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