UNIONDALE, N.Y. – Shawn Bates and Trent Hunter had a goal and two assists each, and set up Radek Martinek’s go-ahead score in the third period in the New York Islanders’ 5-2 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning on Tuesday night.
Hunter and Bates tied it at 2 with goals 2:46 apart late in the second period. Martinek took a cross-the-crease pass from Bates 3:19 into the third and beat Nikolai Khabibulin, giving the Islanders their first winning streak since they won three straight from Nov. 1-6.
Blues 3, Maple Leafs 2
TORONTO – Chris Pronger scored 30 seconds into overtime to give the St. Louis Blues a 3-2 victory over Toronto, ending the Maple Leafs’ winning streak at eight games.
After Toronto’s Joe Nieuwendyk tied it with a short-handed goal with 17 seconds left in regulation, Pronger scored on the power-play with a 20-foot wrist shot from in front of the net.
With Toronto’s Tom Fitzgerald serving a four-minute penalty for high-sticking with 3:01 left in regulation, Nieuwendyk scored after Mats Sundin and Gary Roberts put shots off goalie Chris Osgood.
Mark Rycroft and Dallas Drake had second-period goals for the Blues, tied with Detroit for first place in the Central Division.
Wild 2, Flames 1
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Manny Fernandez made 31 saves and Andrei Zyuzin had a goal and an assist to lead the Minnesota Wild to a 2-1 victory over the Calgary Flames.
Pascal Dupuis added his fifth goal of the season for the Wild, who won for just the third time in their last 10 games and sent the Flames to their first loss in their last six.
The offensively challenged Wild hadn’t scored more than one goal in their previous six games. Three of those were losses, including a 2-1 loss at Calgary on Friday, and two were ties.
Minnesota was outshot for the 13th straight time, but Fernandez was solid in the net.
The Flames started fast, getting 14 shots in the first period. But, unlike in their 6-1 victory against Pittsburgh on Sunday, they couldn’t sustain any kind of offensive flow.
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