Jaromir Jagr scored twice to reach 40 goals in the NHL for the sixth time in his career, and the New York Rangers beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-2 for their sixth straight victory on Saturday.
Petr Sykora and Martin Rucinsky also scored for the Rangers, who have won 10 of 12 and head into the Olympic break in first place in the Atlantic Division. Jagr leads the NHL in goals and points (88).
Bryan McCabe and Jason Allison scored for the Maple Leafs, who have won just three of their last 15 games. Fans booed the Maple Leafs off the ice.
It was the teams' final game before the league shuts down for the Turin Olympics.
Kings 5, Blackhawks 4, OT
At Los Angeles, Joe Corvo scored on a power play 40 seconds into overtime and Los Angeles snapped a seven-game losing streak.
Corvo, Craig Conroy and Tom Kostopoulos each had a goal and an assist. Pavol Demitra scored a short-handed goal and Eric Belanger extended his goal-scoring streak to three games for the Kings.
Martin Lapointe scored the tying goal midway through the third period and Rene Bourque also scored for Chicago. Tyler Arnason and defenseman Brent Seabrook had power-play goals for the Blackhawks, who came in with the league's worst power-play percentage and were 3-for-40 with the man advantage their previous nine games.
Islanders 2, Devils 1
At East Rutherford, New Jersey, Alexei Yashin had a goal and an assist and Rick DiPietro made 26 saves for the New York Islanders to end a two-game losing streak.
Jason Blake also scored for New York, which snapped the Devils' eight-game home winning streak. The Islanders have won three of four on the road since a shootout loss here on Jan. 21.
Sergei Brylin had the lone goal for New Jersey.
Lightning 6, Bruins 5
At Boston, Dmitry Afanasenkov and Vaclav Prospal scored two goals apiece, and Tampa Bay won in Boston for the first time in nearly 12 years.
Tampa Bay's only franchise victory in Boston was in April 1994, and the Lightning were 0-5-16 there since. The Lightning also averted a season sweep as the Bruins had won the first three matchups.
Prospal scored the winning goal during a two-man advantage with 6:12 remaining in regulation.
Ruslan Fedotenko and Ryan Craig also scored for Tampa Bay.
Patrice Bergeron had two goals, and Tom Fitzgerald, Dan LaCouture and Glen Murray also scored for Boston.
Thrashers 2, Canadiens 1, SO
At Montreal, Slava Kozlov scored the only shootout goal to lift Atlanta over Montreal.
Thrashers rookie Kari Lehtonen made 26 saves and stopped Alex Kovalev and Alexander Perezhogin before denying Michael Ryder on Montreal's third shot after Kozlov put a backhand through Cristobal Huet's legs on Atlanta's third shootout attempt.
Huet stopped Marian Hossa and Ilya Kovalchuk -- the Thrashers' first two shooters -- after making 22 saves, including five big ones in overtime as the Canadiens barely made it through to a shootout.
Brad Larsen scored early in the first for Atlanta. Jan Bulis tied it in the second for Montreal.
Senators 3, Flyers 2
At Ottawa, Dany Heatley scored 19 seconds into the second period and Ottawa held on to beat Philadelphia.
Heatley's 34th goal of the season put Ottawa ahead 3-0 before the Flyers rallied with two goals later in the second to make it close.
Antoine Vermette and Vaclav Varada had first-period goals for the Senators, who won for the first time in three games and head into the Olympic break in first place in the Northeast Division.
Simon Gagne and Donald Brashear scored for Philadelphia, which remained second in the Atlantic, three points behind the first-place New York Rangers.
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