Fredrik Modin punches in a pay of goals for Tampa Bay.
WASHINGTON – Fredrik Modin scored twice and Vincent Lecavalier had a goal and an assist in the Tampa Bay Lightning’s 5-2 victory over the Washington Capitals on Friday night.
Martin St. Louis and Cory Stillman added goals to help Tampa Bay snap an 11-game regular-season losing streak in Washington.
Lecavalier was credited with a goal at 3:22 of the first period when Washington defenseman Sergei Gonchar’s clearing attempt struck goalie Olaf Kolzig’s right skate and bounced into the net.
Modin made it 2-0 at 8:05 of the opening period, and Tampa Bay broke the game open in the second.
Modin added his second goal and Stillman scored on a power play to make it 4-0. Jaromir Jagr scored on a breakaway for Washington, but St. Louis countered with a short-handed goal.
Penguins 2, Sabres 1
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Aleksey Morozov scored at 3:09 of overtime to give the Pittsburgh Penguins a 2-1 victory over the Buffalo Sabres on Friday night.
Drake Berehowsky also scored and Sebastien Caron made 21 saves to help the Penguins snap a four-game losing streak.
Daniel Briere scored for Buffalo, 0-2-1 in its last three games, and Mika Noronen stopped 21 shots.
Morozov skated down the left side and beat Noronen with a slap shot, the forward’s fifth goal of the season.
Briere opened the scoring midway through the second period, beating Caron with a wrist shot.
Berehowsky tied it with his first goal of the season with 8:27 remaining in the third.
Berehowsky’s rising slap shot from the right point found the top left corner behind Noronen.
Caron was making just his fourth start of the season and first since Oct. 25 against the New York Islanders.
He entered the game with a NHL-worst 5.67 goals-against-average.
Red Wings 4, Blackhawks 3
CHICAGO – Brendan Shanahan scored on a power play 1:08 into overtime to give the Detroit Red Wings a 4-3 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks on Friday night.
Shanahan’s shot came from near the left circle beat rookie goalie Craig Anderson, giving Detroit its third straight victory and fourth in five games.
Chicago lost its fourth straight after a strong rally in the final period against Dominik Hasek.
Trailing 3-1 midway through the final period, Chicago got within a goal with eight minutes left when Travis Moen scored on a rebound.
Sixty-seven seconds later, Igor Radulov fished a puck out of the corner, drove right to the net and beat Hasek with a sharply angled shot from the right side.
Coyotes 3, Stars 3
DALLAS – Branko Radivojevic scored his second goal of the game with 49.5 seconds left in regulation to give the Phoenix Coyotes a 3-3 tie with the Dallas Stars on Friday night.
Radivojevic knocked a loose puck past goalie Marty Turco after Phoenix pulled goalie Brian Boucher for an extra attacker.
On Thursday night in Phoenix, the Coyotes overcame a 2-0 deficit to beat Colorado 3-2 on Radivojevic’s overtime goal.
The Stars were without coach Dave Tippett, recuperating at home after emergency neck surgery earlier in the day.
Tippett awoke Friday with numbness in his right shoulder and arm, and had surgery to remove a disc from his neck Friday afternoon. Associate coach Rick Wilson ran the team against the Coyotes, and Tippett is expected to be back Monday.
Rob DiMaio’s short-handed goal with 7:26 left gave the Stars a 3-2 lead. With teammate Brenden Morrow in the penalty box, DiMaio picked up a loose puck in the Dallas zone, skated up the right side and beat Boucher from the right circle.
Bill Guerin’s 11th goal of the season gave Dallas a 2-1 lead with 12:18 remaining, but Radoslav Suchy tied with 10:32 to play, converting a behind-the-net pass from Krystofer Kolanos.
Radivojevic opened the scoring on a power play midway through the second period, and Scott Young tied it on another power play with 4:18 left in the period.
Dallas ended a four-game losing streak, its longest since March of 1996.
Notes: Wilson was Dallas’ head coach for the last 32 games of the 2001-02 season. Tippett got the head coaching job the following summer. … Wilson’s son, Landon, is a right wing for the Coyotes. … Stars RW Jere Lehtinen is expected to be activated next week. Lehtinen has been on injured reserve due to back spasms and has played in only two games this season.
AP-ES-11-14-03 2319EST
Comments are no longer available on this story