EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. – Scott Niedermayer had a goal and two assists, and Martin Brodeur made 18 saves for his 67th career shutout, leading the New Jersey Devils to a 5-0 victory over the New York Rangers on Saturday.

Jay Pandolfo, Jamie Langenbrunner, Brian Rafalski and Christian Berglund also scored for New Jersey, which extended its unbeaten streak to nine games (7-0-2).

Blues 1, Kings 0

LOS ANGELES – Chris Osgood recorded his 40th career shutout and Pavol Demitra scored in the first period in the St. Louis Blues’ fifth straight victory, a 1-0 win over the Los Angeles Kings.

The Blues, who won for the ninth time in 10 games, played without the suspended Keith Tkachuk and Doug Weigh.

Canadiens 3, Senators 2

OTTAWA – Jan Bulis scored his second goal of the game with 7:59 left and Jose Theodore made 38 saves to lead the Montreal Canadiens to a 3-2 win over the Ottawa Senators.

Bulis also scored a short-handed goal in the first to help Montreal win for the first time in three meetings with Ottawa this season. On the winner, Yanic Perreault passed the puck from behind the net to Bulis, who found himself free in the slot to backhand a shot over Patrick Lalime’s right shoulder.

Flyers 4, Thrashers 0

PHILADELPHIA – Jeff Hackett made 24 saves, Sami Kapanen broke a scoreless tie early in the third period, and the Philadelphia Flyers won their sixth straight game to remain unbeaten at home with a 4-0 victory over the Atlanta Thrashers.

Philadelphia scored all of its goals in the final period to help Hackett pick up his third shutout of the season and the 26th of his career. Philadelphia’s home unbeaten streak reached a league-best nine games (7-0-2) and is the second-longest in franchise history. The 1979-80 team set an NHL record with 26 straight home games without a loss.

Panthers 3, Penguins 2

PITTSBURGH -Valeri Bure and Kristian Huselius each had a goal and an assist, and the Florida Panthers extended their winning streak against the Pittsburgh Penguins to seven games with a 3-2 victory.

Olli Jokinen added his team-leading seventh goal – and scored for the sixth straight game against Pittsburgh – as Florida built a 3-0 lead and held off the Penguins.

Florida goaltender Roberto Luongo lost his shutout bid 6:16 into the third period when Milan Kraft deflected a shot by Josef Melichar into the net for his third goal of the season.

Capitals 2, Hurricanes 1

RALEIGH, N.C. -Dainius Zubrus scored a power-play goal with 2:13 left and Olaf Kolzig stopped 38 shots, leading the Washington Capitals to a 2-1 win over the Carolina Hurricanes.

The Capitals, with the fewest points in the NHL coming in, have beaten the Hurricanes twice in the last four days.

Predators 4, Islanders 3

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Martin Erat had a goal and two assists, and Marek Zidlicky and Vladimir Orszagh each scored power-play goals in the Nashville Predators’ 4-3 victory over the New York Islanders.

Red Wings 1, Wild 1

ST. PAUL, Minn.- Dominik Hasek made 25 saves for Detroit and Red Wings star Steve Yzerman scored a third-period goal to force a 1-1 tie with the Minnesota Wild.

Andrew Brunette scored on the power play in the second period for Minnesota.

which again got a stellar effort from goalie Dwayne Roloson.

and stopped Detroit’s three-game winning streak.

Roloson, who stopped a penalty shot in the third and finished with 27 saves, was less than eight minutes away from his third shutout in four starts when Yzerman flipped a shot from just outside the crease into the upper right corner of the net to tie it at 1 with 7:42 left.

A pass from the circle by Chris Chelios set up Yzerman’s team-leading ninth goal.

The Red Wings have the league’s most productive power play – they entered the game with a 28.4-percent conversion rate – but the Wild scored on their second chance with an extra skater when Brunette poked his own rebound underneath Hasek’s outstretched glove.

After that, The Dominator didn’t budge.

Minnesota, 6-3-2 in its last 11 games, outshot Detroit 4-1 in overtime. Richard Park’s attempt to redirect a shot on a two-on-one failed, and Brad Bombardir’s slap shot from the blue line was stymied.

Roloson, who began the game with a .935 save percentage that ranked fourth in the NHL, faced a penalty shot early in the third after Filip Kuba tripped Pavel Datsyuk.

On the attempt, Datsyuk deked right and tried to go to the high corner, but Roloson – who made 27 saves – was there.

Nicklas Lidstrom sent a slap shot from the blue line that knocked Roloson’s mask off and bounced over the crossbar, but the first period was otherwise uneventful – the teams combined for just 13 shots on goal.

Notes: Jason Wiemer, claimed off waivers from the New York Islanders earlier this week, started at center for the Wild. … Brendan Shanahan’s streak of five straight games with a point ended. He had five goals and three assists during that stretch. … Minnesota’s first-round draft pick, RW Brent Burns, came off injured reserve and played for the first time since separating his shoulder on Oct. 25. He took the place of C Marc Chouinard, who broke his jaw in a game Thursday against Edmonton. … Detroit is 8-4-2 against the Western Conference, 1-3 against the East. Minnesota is 2-7-3 against the West and 5-1 against the East.

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on the power play against the NHL’s best team on the penalty kill. The Islanders entered having stopped 92.2 percent of opponents’ power plays.

Nashville, which has won six of 11 at home, took advantage on its first power-play chance. Zidlicky, who entered tied for second in scoring among NHL defensemen, scored his fifth of the season at 8:32.

The Predators padded their lead in a messy second period that featured four fighting majors and 32 penalty minutes. Erat scored at 5:11 on a play that he started as he put back the rebound of a shot missed by Orszagh.

Then the fighting started. Jordin Tootoo checked Radek Martinek near the boards, leaving him on the ice for a few minutes. Then, Asham responded with a cross-checking penalty, the first of four straight called against the Islanders.

Nashville took a 3-0 lead when Orszagh scored on a wrister on the power play with 14:27 left in the period.

But Czerkawski tried to get the Islanders going. He took a pass from Janne Niinimaa and went at Nashville goalie Tomas Vokoun and easily beat him for his 11th goal at 17:18.

Nashville went up 4-1 as Arkhipov scored on a backhander at 7:53.

New York answered as Mapletoft got his first this year at 9:43, and Asham scored his second on a shot from the left circle to pull the Isles within 4-3 at 12:19.

Vokoun made a big stop on Czerkawski, making a stick save in the final minute, and Nashville just missed an empty-netter.

Notes: The Predators scored two power-play goals for the fifth time in eight games. … New York had won its first two games against Western Conference teams. … The Predators will play eight of their next 10 on the road.

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the final half of the period.

Eric Staal, appeared to have a goal about two minutes after Bondra’s score, but replay officials ruled that Kolzig was able to stop the puck shy of the goal line.

However, the rookie made good on a rebound just seconds after a Carolina power plays expired later in the period for his fourth of the season.

The Hurricanes wasted a great opportunity to take the lead at the end of the second with a two-man advantage for 1:52, but failed to score in a 22-shot period. O’Neill hit the post on one of the shots as his scoring slump continued.

Notes: Robert Lang’s assist on the game’s first goal extended his point streak to nine straight, matching the NHL high this season. … O’Neill, one of 12 players with at least 30 or more goals in each of the last three seasons, has now gone 11 games without one. … The last time the Hurricanes had a 20-shot period was Jan. 24 against Florida. … Bondra is one point shy of 800 for his career – all with the Capitals.

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game against Pittsburgh – as Florida built a 3-0 lead and held off the Penguins.

Florida goaltender Roberto Luongo lost his shutout bid 6:16 into the third period when Milan Kraft deflected a shot by Josef Melichar into the net for his third goal of the season.

Defenseman Drake Berehowsky made it 3-2 during a two-man advantage 2:14 later, taking a pass from Martin Straka and scoring for the second consecutive game.

The Penguins, the NHL’s lowest-scoring team, had converted just 2 of 46 power-play chances over nine games before Berehowsky scored.

Jokinen scored when he won a faceoff back to Pavel Trnka at the left point and then backhanded the puck past Sebastien Caron when Trnka’s shot bounced off Niklas Hagman with 44 seconds left in the first period.

A wide-open Huselius scored his third of the season from the slot 1:24 into the second period when he converted Bure’s pass from the right wing.

Huselius returned the favor with 5:21 left in the period, working a give-and-go with Bure, who skated past Brian Holzinger and deked Caron before scoring his fourth goal of the season.

At that point, Florida had scored on three of its last four shots against Caron, who was starting consecutive games for the first time since Oct. 11-16 and playing his first game at home this season.

Notes: The Penguins played without Mario Lemieux (hip), Dan Focht (broken finger), Rico Fata (hamstring) and Steve Webb. Lemieux, who has missed six games, hopes to return to the lineup in the next week. … Florida has six players injured, including Viktor Kozlov (jaw), Matt Cullen (groin), Mathieu Biron (hand), Byron Ritchie (knee), Andreas Lilja (shoulder) and Darcy Hordichuk (foot). … Vaclav Nedorost, acquired from Colorado in July, appeared in his first game for the Panthers. He had played two games with San Antonio of the AHL while rehabilitating from offseason shoulder surgery.

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las Hagman with 44 seconds left in the first period.

A wide-open Huselius scored his third of the season from the slot 1:24 into the second period when he converted Bure’s pass from the right wing.

Huselius returned the favor with 5:21 left in the period, working a give-and-go with Bure, who skated past Brian Holzinger and deked Caron before scoring his fourth goal of the season.

At that point, Florida had scored on three of its last four shots against Caron, who was starting consecutive games for the first time since Oct. 11-16 and playing his first game at home this season.

Notes: The Penguins played without Mario Lemieux (hip), Dan Focht (broken finger), Rico Fata (hamstring) and Steve Webb. Lemieux, who has missed six games, hopes to return to the lineup in the next week. … Florida has six players injured, including Viktor Kozlov (jaw), Matt Cullen (groin), Mathieu Biron (hand), Byron Ritchie (knee), Andreas Lilja (shoulder) and Darcy Hordichuk (foot). … Vaclav Nedorost, acquired from Colorado in July, appeared in his first game for the Panthers. He had played two games with San Antonio of the AHL while rehabilitating from offseason shoulder surgery.

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team in the NHL.

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nd of the season.

Notes: Canadiens D Stephane Quintal returned after missing three games. Quintal was taken out of the lineup before a 2-1 loss in Buffalo on Nov. 7 because of an irregular heartbeat. He was with his wife when she gave birth to the couple’s first child Wednesday, and was rested for Thursday’s 3-1 loss in New York to the Islanders. … Senators D Karel Rachunek returned after missing three games because of a sore back. … Lalime made his eighth straight start against Montreal, the last six against Theodore. D Sheldon Souray (six) and Perreault (five) are the only Canadiens with more than three goals. … Ottawa junior coach Brian Kilrea was honored prior to the game for his recent Hall of Fame induction.

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