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Tampa Bay Lightning's Fredrik Modin, front, congratulates Ruslan Fedotenko after Fedotenko's tie-breaking goal during the third period against the New York Islanders in Tampa Bay, Florida, on Sunday. The Lightning beat the Islanders 5-2. PHOTO: AP

Ruslan Fedotenko scored a tiebreaking goal midway through the third period and the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the New York Islanders 5-2 on Sunday night.

Martin St. Louis gave Tampa Bay a two-goal advantage at 14:27 before Fredrik Modin scored a power-play goal to make it 5-2 with 2:27 remaining.

Tampa Bay also got goals from Pavel Kubina and Vincent Lecavalier, who has a four-game streak. John Grahame stopped 30 shots.

Bruno Gervais and Alexei Yashin scored for the Islanders, who trail eighth-place Montreal by five points in the race for the final Eastern Conference playoff spot. New York has lost three straight after a four-game winning streak.

Coyotes 3, Blackhawks 2

In Chicago, Curtis Joseph made 34 saves and Steven Reinprecht set up two goals in Phoenix's victory.

Paul Mara, Mike Comrie and Shane Doan scored for the Coyotes, who won for just the second time in six games.

Curtis Brown and Mark Cullen had Chicago's goals, and Nikolai Khabibulin made 23 saves for the Blackhawks, who have lost five of six and 10 of 13. Khabibulin had five rookie defenseman playing in front of him.

Mighty Ducks 4, Blue Jackets 3

In Columbus, Ohio, Joffrey Lupul scored to snap a third-period tie, and Anaheim rallied from a two-goal deficit to beat Columbus.

Francois Beauchemin, acquired midseason from Columbus for Sergei Fedorov, had a goal and assist for Anaheim, which has won eight of 11.

Travis Moen and Corey Perry also scored for the Ducks, and Scott Niedermayer and Teemu Selanne had two assists each.

Nikolai Zherdev, Dan Fritsche and Rick Nash had goals for the Blue Jackets, losers of four straight and 10 of 14.

Flames 3, Wild 2

In St. Paul, Minnesota, Daymond Langkow and Jarome Iginla each had a goal and an assist, and Calgary earned its first road in more than a month.

Langkow scored his 20th goal in the first period and assisted on Jarome Iginla's team-leading 31st in the third. With the game tied 2-2, Iginla passed to Kristian Huselius for the winner with 5:08 to play, giving Calgary its first win away from home since defeating San Jose on Feb. 6.

Miikka Kiprusoff made 37 saves.

Mark Chouinard and Wes Walz scored for the Wild, who have just two wins since the Olympic break.

Senators 4, Devils 0

In East Rutherford, New Jersey, Dany Heatley's power-play tally keyed a three-goal second period, and Ray Emery made 22 saves as Ottawa regained sole possession of first place in the Eastern Conference.

Ottawa also got goals from Patrick Eaves, Antoine Vermette and Zdeno Chara. The surging Senators have 10 wins in 12 games, and their 98 points give them a five-point lead over the Buffalo Sabres in the Northeast Division. They also moved two points ahead of Southeast Division-leading Carolina Hurricanes in the conference standings.

Emery continued his solid play as Ottawa's top netminder while Dominik Hasek recovers from a groin injury sustained last month in the Olympics. The rookie is 9-1-1 since the Olympic break and has three shutouts this season.

Maple Leafs 1, Penguins 0

In Pittsburgh, Chad Kilger scored on a penalty shot with 6:51 remaining and Mikael Tellqvist made 21 saves in Toronto's victory over Pittsburgh that was delayed twice by power failures.

The blackouts forced Tellqvist to wait a little longer to post his second career shutout. Both play stoppages came in the second period when the game was still scoreless. Mellon Arena, which opened in 1961, is the NHL's oldest arena.

Toronto, which entered on a 3-7-1 slide, moved within three points of the eighth and final playoff position in the Eastern Conference.

Sharks 6, Avalanche 5

In San Jose, California, Alyn McCauley's wrist shot snapped a tie with 4:13 left and lifted San Jose past Colorado.

McCauley put the Sharks back on top after John Michael Liles got Colorado even at 5 just 5:18 earlier.

Patrick Marleau scored two power-play goals for the Sharks and recorded his 400th NHL point on the first. A rusty Evgeni Nabokov gave up all five Colorado goals and made 24 saves. He had missed five games with an abdomen strain.

The Avalanche trailed 4-1 in the second period but made a game of it behind two goals by Ian Laperriere and another from Milan Hejduk.

Joe Sakic earned his 901st assist on Laperriere's second goal to tie Bryan Trottier for 15th on the NHL career list. Sakic, who 1,467 points, is tied with Stan Mikita for 11th on that list.

San Jose's Jonathan Cheechoo added his 42nd goal of the season, off an assist from Joe Thornton, who is second in the NHL with 99 points.

Red Wings 7, Canucks 3

In Vancouver, British Columbia, Jason Williams scored twice and Pavel Datsyuk added a goal and two assists to help Detroit stay on top in the NHL standings.

Tomas Holmstrom, Nicklas Lidstrom, Pavel Datsyuk, Brendan Shanahan and Johan Franzen also scored.

Anson Carter, Markus Naslund and Matt Cooke scored for Vancouver, which has lost six of its last seven to drop into a tie with Anaheim for eighth place.
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