Phil Kessel scored the game-winner in the shootout and Marc Savard had a goal and two assists to lead the Boston Bruins to a 5-4 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Thursday night.
The Bruins climbed back from deficits of 2-0 and 4-3 to beat the Penguins for the ninth straight time. Pittsburgh's last win against Boston came on Nov. 1, 2003, and its last win in Boston was on Feb. 8, 2003.
Hannu Toivonen recovered from a shaky first two periods to record his first win in three months for the Bruins. Glen Murray, Brad Stuart and Marco Sturm also scored for Boston.
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Evgeni Malkin scored twice and Jordan Staal and Ryan Malone each added goals for the Penguins.
Islanders 4, Flyers 2
At Philadelphia, Mike Sillinger and Andy Hilbert scored 1:18 apart early in the third period to help New York snap a three game losing streak and hand Philadelphia its seventh straight loss.
Randy Robitaille and Jason Blake also scored for the Islanders, who had dropped nine of 11.
Randy Jones and Simon Gagne scored goals and Peter Forsberg had his 600th assist for the Flyers, who have the fewest home wins (3) in the NHL.
Rick DiPietro had 29 saves for the Islanders. Philadelphia's Antero Niittymaki stopped 32 shots but suffered his 14th straight defeat (0-13-1).
Canadiens 4, Thrashers 1
At Atlanta, Montreal broke out of its scoring slump, finding the net for the first time in three games, and All-Star Cristobal Huet made 44 saves to lead Montreal.
Coming off two straight shutouts, the Canadiens won for just the fifth time in 14 games, taking control early in the second period after two Atlanta players were sent to the penalty box about a minute apart.
The Canadiens went ahead for good 17 seconds into their two-man advantage. Sheldon Souray and Tomas Piekanec scored 46 seconds apart and Sergei Samsanov made it 4-1 nearly six minutes later.
Alex Kovalev also scored for Montreal,and Bobby Holik had the Thrashers' goal.
Capitals 5, Hurricanes 2
At Raleigh, North Carolina, Alexander Semin and Chris Clark scored two goals apiece to help Washington snap a six-game road losing streak.
Olaf Kolzig had 34 saves for his 260th career win, tying Gilles Meloche for 30th place on the all-time list.
After Eric Staal pulled the Hurricanes to 3-2 at 12:07 of the third, Clark and Alex Ovechkin scored empty-netters in the final minute to secure the Capitals' win.
Cole also scored for Carolina and John Grahame stopped 25 shots.
Canucks 2, Senators 1
At Ottawa, Roberto Luongo made 34 saves, Rory Fitzpatrick scored his first goal of the season and Vancouver won its third straight to end Ottawa's season-high five-game winning streak.
Taylor Pyatt added a goal and an assist for the Canucks.
Luongo, who stopped 30 shots on Tuesday in a 4-0 win in Montreal for his third shutout of the season, had 10 saves in the first period and 11 in the second before Daniel Alfredsson scored 8:13 into the third to pull the Senators within one.
His shutout streak ended at 154 minutes, 42 seconds.
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