By The Associated Press

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Derek Roy recorded his second-career hat trick, J.P. Dumont had two goals, and Thomas Vanek snapped a third-period tie to help the Buffalo Sabres to a 8-5 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning on Thursday night.

Paul Gaustad and Ales Kotalik also scored for the Sabres, who won their fourth straight.

Henrik Tallinder and Mike Grier each had three assists, and Roy set up another goal for Buffalo, which swept the four-game season series.

The Sabres held the lead five times in the wide-open game and had 14 players register at least a point.

Brad Richards had a goal and three assists, and Ruslan Fedotenko, Vincent Lecavalier, Vaclav Prospal, and Martin St. Louis also scored for the Lightning, who lost for the fourth time in five games.

Tampa Bay defenseman Pavel Kubina had three assists.

Dumont opened the scoring just 27 seconds in, scoring on Buffalo’s first shot against Tampa Bay goalie John Grahame.

Richards and Fedotenko scored power-play goals to give the Lightning a 2-1 lead. Dumont tied it at 2 while Buffalo had a man-advantage to finish the scoring in the first period.

Red Wings 7, Kings 3

DETROIT – Henrik Zetterberg scored his 30th and 31st goals less than a minute apart in the second period and sent the Detroit Red Wings to a 7-3 win over the Los Angeles Kings on Thursday night.

Tomas Holmstrom and Nicklas Lidstrom each added a goal and two assists, and Jason Williams and Robert Lang had a goal and an assist each for Detroit. Pavel Datsyuk also scored.

Lubomir Visnovsky had a goal and an assist for Los Angeles, and Dustin Brown and Mike Cammalleri got the other Kings goals.

Blue Jackets 5, Coyotes 4

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Rick Nash had a goal and an assist, and the Columbus Blue Jackets broke out of a scoring drought in a 5-4 victory over the Phoenix Coyotes on Thursday night.

The Blue Jackets had scored only five goals in four games since the Olympic break.

Nikolai Zherdev and former Coyotes Jan Hrdina, Mike Rupp and Jason Chimera also had goals for Columbus. Rupp and Chimera were acquired from Phoenix on Oct. 8 in the deal that sent Geoff Sanderson, the Blue Jackets’ career goal leader, to the Coyotes.

Avalanche 2, ‘Hawks 1

CHICAGO – Peter Budaj made 26 saves, and Pierre Turgeon and Antti Laaksonen scored to lead the Colorado Avalanche to a 2-1 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks on Thursday.

Budaj, temporarily Colorado’s top goalie following the trade of David Aebischer to Montreal on Wednesday, was especially sharp late in the second period and early in the third. He stopped several Blackhawks, including Kyle Calder and Patrick Sharp, on close-in chances.

Colorado dealt Aebischer, who appeared in 43 games with the Avalanche this season, to the Canadiens for Jose Theodore. Theodore, however, is out until late March with a broken bone in his heel.

Flames 1, Stars 0

CALGARY, Alberta – Miikka Kiprusoff made 39 saves for his league-leading eighth shutout and the Calgary Flames hung on for a 1-0 victory over the Dallas Stars on Thursday night.

Daymond Langkow’s 19th goal, at 15:40 of the first period, was all the scoring Kiprusoff would need as the Finnish goalie tied the Stars’ Marty Turco for the league lead in wins with 32.Turco finished with 23 saves.

The Flames maintained their one-point lead over Colorado atop the Northwest Division. The Avalanche beat Chicago 2-1 Thursday.

Kiprusoff’s toughest test came 4 minutes into the third period when Jordan Leopold took a double-minor for high-sticking while Calgary was already short-handed, giving Dallas a two-man advantage for 1:08. Sergei Zubov, Brendan Morrow, and Mike Modano each had dangerous shots during that stretch but Kiprusoff was at his acrobatic best stopping each one – the last one from Modano coming on a sensational glove save.

Dallas continued to attack on during the subsequent one-man advantage but couldn’t get anything past Kiprusoff.