Newly acquired Doug Weight scored the game-winning goal in the shootout to lift the surging Carolina Hurricanes to a 4-3 win over the Boston Bruins on Sunday.
Hurricanes goalie Martin Gerber, who stopped three shots during the shootout, stuffed a Sergei Samsonov attempt to secure the win. He had 24 saves in regulation and overtime.
Ray Whitney shot between Boston goalie Tim Thomas' legs for the first goal of the shootout. But after Gerber turned away Patrice Bergeron and Glen Murray, Brad Boyes scored for Boston to force another round.
Weight, who was playing in his second game with Carolina after being traded from the St. Louis Blues last Monday, scored on Carolina's next opportunity.
Eric Staal had a goal and an assist and Cory Stillman added a pair of assists for the Hurricanes, who improved to 2-1-0 on its four-game road trip.
Canadiens 5, Flyers 0
In Montreal, Cristobal Huet recorded his second shutout in as many days, and Michael Ryder got his first career hat trick to lead Montreal over Philadelphia.
Huet, who got his first Montreal shutout in Saturday's 2-0 win over Boston, made 25 saves to win consecutive games for the first time since March 9-10, 2004, when he was with Los Angeles and swept the Phoenix Coyotes in a back-to-back games.
The 30-year-old Frenchman posted his sixth career shutout while making his third straight start since replacing struggling starter Jose Theodore in three of the Canadiens' previous four games.
Ryder scored on a power play midway through the first to open, ending a personal seven-game goal drought in the process. He added his second of the game just 40 seconds into the third to put the Canadiens up 3-0 and got his third goal -- his team-leading 23rd -- on a 5-on-3 advantage at 16:52.
Jan Bulis and Sheldon Souray also scored for Montreal, which evened its record under GM and head coach Bob Gainey at 6-6.
Mike Modano needed a year off.
He needed his swings on the golf course, hours spent lazing on Mexican beaches, some time to piece his finances back together.
Lucky for the US Olympic hockey team and his Dallas Stars, Modano got all that. He didn't really miss hockey during the NHL lockout, and after a 2003-2004 campaign as miserable as his was, who would?
So while the league struggled through its lost season, one of the game's best American-born players got a much-needed break. Now he's enjoying a resurgence, reminding fans and teammates of the old Modano -- not a Modano who's getting old.
"It was good timing," the 35-year-old center said. "It came at a great time just for me to get away from the game and really kind of re-gear some. ... Get everything back to square one and just feeling good, mentally more than anything."
Just in time for the Turin Games, Modano's game is strong as ever.
"It might be even better," said Bill Guerin, his teammate on the Stars and the US team.
Through Dallas' first 54 games, Modano had a team-high 51 points (17 goals, 34 assists). His plus-24 rating ranked in the league's top 10.
"He's scoring goals and making a lot of plays. He looks like when he was 25 or 26," Philippe Boucher said. "He plays probably faster right now than I've seen him. He's got a lot of confidence, and he's obviously our leader."
Modano's nearly point-a-game average is more reflective of what the No. 1 overall pick of 1988 has done throughout a 16-season pro career, not his struggles of two years ago.
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