PHILADELPHIA – Jim Vandermeer, Tony Amonte and John LeClair scored, leading the Philadelphia Flyers to their 11th straight victory at home, 3-2 over the Phoenix Coyotes on Friday night.

The NHL-leading Flyers are 12-0-2 at the Wachovia Center this season, the only team unbeaten at home.

Branko Radivojevic and Andrei Nazarov scored for the Coyotes, who were unbeaten in their last four games.

Robert Esche stopped 18 shots to beat his former team and improve to 8-2-2. Former Flyers goaltender Sean Burke had 28 saves for the Coyotes.

Hurricanes 1,

Canadiens 1

RALEIGH, N.C. – Mike Ribeiro scored a power-play goal with less than six minutes remaining to rally the Montreal Canadiens to a 1-1 tie with the Carolina Hurricanes on Friday night.

Jose Theodore stopped 36 shots for Montreal, which is unbeaten is four straight (2-0-2).

Kevyn Adams scored a short-handed goal for Carolina, which picked up four of a possible six points in a three-game homestand.

Thrashers 6, Ducks 2

ATLANTA – Marc Savard scored two goals, Byron Dafoe won for the first time in 10 months and the Atlanta Thrashers defeated the Anaheim Mighty Ducks 6-2 Friday night.

Slava Kozlov scored a goal and assisted on three others for the Thrashers, winning for just the second time in six games.

Savard has scored six goals in six games since recovering much sooner than expected from ankle surgery. J.P. Vigier scored for the fourth game in a row, his third-period goal knocking out struggling Anaheim goaltender Jean-Sebastien Giguere.

Dafoe knows a thing or two about struggling. The Thrashers’ No. 2 goalie was playing only his fourth game this season and had not won since a 4-2 victory at New Jersey on Feb. 7.

Making his first appearance in 20 days, Dafoe didn’t look rusty at all. He had several

dazzling stops among his 35 saves.

Giguere has gone from playoff hero to struggling goalie, his record dropping to 4-12-2 with the loss.

After giving up a soft goal to Vigier that made it 5-1, Giguere was replaced by Martin Gerber. It didn’t really matter at that point.

The lone bright spot was Anaheim was Joffrey Lupul, who scored twice.

Savard had the first two Atlanta goals.

He wasn’t even supposed to be on the ice, having been projected to miss eight-to-10 weeks after hurting his ankle Nov. 2.

Savard returned after only three weeks and hasn’t missed a beat. He now has 11 goals in just 18 games.

Lupul beat Dafoe with a shot through the legs at 14:25 of the second period, cutting the Thrashers’ lead to 2-1.

The comeback was short-lived. Jeff Cowan scored just 28 seconds later after taking a shot to the midsection while trying to set up in front of the net for deflection. Cowan scooped up his own rebound, flipping the puck past a helpless Giguere.

Kozlov made a wonderful cross-ice pass to set up Serge Aubin for a 4-1 lead at 16:50 of the second.

Notes: Thrashers coach Bob Hartley shook up his struggling team with several lineup changes. C Randy Robitaille sat out his first game of the season and D Chris Tamer was scratched for only the second time. … The father and brother of late Thrashers C Dan Snyder attended the game. … Atlanta beat the Mighty Ducks for the first time at Philips Arena, having lost the first three meetings. … Anaheim LW Garrett Burnett was ejected in the first period when his jersey came off during a first-period fight with Atlanta’s Francis Lessard. … Anaheim D Sandis Ozolinsh went out midway through the first period after irritating a hip pointer. … The crowd of 17,230 was second largest of the season at Philips Arena.

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