By The Associated Press

WASHINGTON – Roberto Luongo made a season-high 53 saves to help the Florida Panthers end a 13-game road losing streak with a 3-2 victory over the Washington Capitals on Sunday night.

Nathan Horton, Jozef Stumpel and Rostislav Olesz scored for the Panthers, 3-13-3 on the road this season.

The victory was Florida’s first on the road since an overtime win over Pittsburgh on Oct. 25. Chris Clark and Brian Sutherby scored for the Capitals, who set a team record with 55 shots on goal. Washington broke the mark of 53, set Dec. 11, 1981, against Toronto.

Avalanche 2, Rangers 1

NEW YORK – Joe Sakic scored a pair of goals 19 seconds apart in the second period – the second on a penalty shot – and the Colorado Avalanche snapped a three-game losing streak with a 2-1 victory over the New York Rangers.

Colorado has won six straight against the Rangers since Nov. 20, 2001, and is 9-1 in the past 10 meetings.

Sakic, who had a 10-game point streak stopped Saturday night in Colorado’s 5-4 loss to the New York Islanders, broke open a scoreless game with a power-play goal at 13:52. While that was being announced, Sakic was hooked by Martin Straka as he came in alone and was awarded his fifth career penalty shot.

Stars 5, Blackhawks 3

CHICAGO – Mike Modano and Jere Lehtinen each had a goal and an assist in the streaking Dallas Stars’ 5-3 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks on Sunday night.

Jussi Jokinen, Jason Arnott and Nathan Perrott also scored for Dallas, which has won seven of its last eight games and 12 of 14. Sergei Zubov and Trevor Daley each added two assists to help the Stars extend their unbeaten streak against Chicago to 11 games (10-0-1) dating to April 12, 2002.

Marty Turco made 29 saves to improve his career record against Chicago to 9-0-1.

Saturday’s late game

Flames 3, Bruins 0

CALGARY, Alberta – Miikka Kiprusoff stopped 26 shots in his fifth shutout of the season and the Calgary Flames beat the Boston Bruins 3-0 on Saturday night.

Rookie defenseman Dion Phaneuf, Tony Amonte and Stephane Yelle scored for the Flames, who played for the first time in since defeating Ottawa 2-1 a week earlier.

The Flames jumped out to a 3-0 lead with goals on three of their first four shots.

With Jarome Iginla screening Boston goalie Andrew Raycroft, Phaneuf snapped a point shot into the top corner at 3:05 of the first period. Just 51 seconds later, Matthew Lombardi centered the puck from behind the net out to Amonte, who quickly one-timed a shot past Raycroft. Exactly one minute later, Yelle intercepted the puck from Patrice Bergeron at the Calgary blue line during a Boston power play. Yelle then skated the length of the ice and wristed a shot into the top corner for his first goal since the opening game of the season.

, a stretch of 30 games.

Kiprusoff did his part to keep Boston off the scoresheet in the opening period with a nice pad save off of a close-in shot by Bruins forward Marco Sturm. Later in the period, with Boston enjoying a two-man advantage, Kiprusoff made a highlight-reel glove save on a shot by defenseman Brian Leetch.

During the same power play, Yelle blocked a shot and left the game with an ankle injury.

The Flames protected their 3-0 lead through two periods despite a pair of great scoring opportunities by Boston’s P.J. Axelsson, who was denied on a breakaway by Kiprusoff before hitting the post with another shot later in the period.

In the third, the Flames played stifling defense and only allowed Boston to record eight shots.

Raycroft finished with 26 saves as the 2003-04 NHL rookie of the year fell to 5-14-2.

Notes: Lombardi returned to the Flames lineup after missing 24 games with a high ankle sprain, sustained on Oct. 17 against Phoenix. … The Flames lead the series against the Bruins 75-70-20-1, including a 45-28-10 record at home. … The Flames have five wins and a shootout loss in the past six games and have only failed to gain a point twice in 20 contests. … The Bruins have been outshot in eight consecutive games.

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