DETROIT – Brendan Shanahan had a goal and an assist, helping the Detroit Red Wings beat the Minnesota Wild 5-3 Monday night.

Detroit, with 105 points, reduced its magic number to one point over San Jose to clinch the top seed in the Western Conference playoffs.

Darren McCarty, Jiri Fischer, Boyd Devereaux and Pavel Datsyuk scored the other Red Wings goals. Ray Whitney had two assists for Detroit, which led 2-1 after the first period.

Alexandre Daigle scored twice, and Andrei Zyuzin netted the other goal for Minnesota.

McCarty opened the scoring at 4:26 when he put in a wrist shot from the top of the left circle. Minnesota tied it on a power-play goal with 9:57 remaining when Zyuzin slammed in a one-timed shot from in front.

Leafs 4, Thrashers 2

TORONTO – Gary Roberts and Nik Antropov scored third-period goals and the Toronto Maple Leafs moved into a tie for first place in the Northeast Division by rallying for a 4-2 victory over the Atlanta Thrashers on Monday night.

Tie Domi and Alexander Mogilny also scored for the Maple Leafs, who are tied with Boston with 99 points.

Toronto started slowly, trailing 2-0 in the first period before scoring the next four goals.

Senators 5, Lightning 4

TAMPA, Fla. – Chris Phillips scored from just inside the blue line four minutes into overtime Monday night, giving the Ottawa Senators a 5-4 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning and a season sweep of the Eastern Conference leaders.

The Lightning are 8-2-2 against the top four teams in the East, but lost all four meetings with No. 5 Ottawa while being outscored 17-9.

Daniel Alfredsson became the Senators’ career goals leader in the third period and got an assist on the winner after stealing the puck from defenseman Darryl Sydor along the boards.

Panthers 3, Hurricanes 1

SUNRISE, Fla. – Kristian Huselius and Matt Cullen scored power-play goals, leading the Florida Panthers to a 3-1 victory over the Carolina Hurricanes on Monday night.

Olli Jokinen added an empty-net goal for the Panthers, who snapped their season-high, five-game losing streak. It was Florida s fifth consecutive home victory over the Hurricanes.

Jaroslav Svoboda scored for Carolina, which lost on the road in regulation for the first time since Feb. 14 (8-1-0-3).

Sabres 6, Blue Jackets 0

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Dmitri Kalinin scored twice and Martin Biron stopped 23 shots, in the Buffalo Sabres’ 6-0 victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Monday night.

Derek Roy had a goal and assist, and Maxim Afinogenov, James Patrick and Chris Taylor also scored in helping the Sabres extend their unbeaten streak to five games (4-0-1). For Biron, it was his second shutout of the season and 17th of his career, while he also recorded his 100th career victory.

Buffalo moved within three points of the New York Islanders in the race for the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. Both teams have three games remaining, and the Islanders’ magic number is four points.

The Blue Jackets, shut out for the 11th time this season, had a four-game winning streak snapped. The 4-year-old franchise has never won five straight.

Buffalo took control early when Kalinin and Roy scored 2:09 apart, putting the Sabres ahead 2-0 by the 8:16 mark of the first period, and before Columbus registered its second shot on net.

Kalinin opened the scoring 6:07 in on an opportunistic bounce. Taking Jochen Hecht’s drop pass inside the Blue Jackets zone, Kalinin skated into the left circle and had his attempted centering pass to Mike Grier bounce in off Columbus defenseman Scott Lachance’s skate.

Roy’s goal came after Milan Bartovic created a turnover in the Columbus zone. Taking Maxim Afinogenov’s pass into the high slot, Roy slapped a 30-footer that beat Fred Brathwaite.

The Blue Jackets were outshot 7-0 when Kalinin scored and 9-1 when Roy made it 2-0. Columbus was outshot 15-6 in the first period and 39-23 overall.

Biron’s best stop came when he stopped Rick Nash’s hard slapper from the right circle during a Blue Jackets’ two-man advantage in the second period.

Kalinin made it 3-0 with a short-handed goal in the middle period. Afinogenov scored three minutes into the third, and Patrick and Taylor scored 62 seconds apart to seal it.

The margin of victory tied a season high for Buffalo, which beat Washington 7-1 on Dec. 31 and 6-0 on March 10.

Notes: Columbus C Todd Marchant did not play after straining his groin in Saturday at Nashville. He is day-to-day. … Kalinin enjoyed the first two-goal game by a Buffalo defenseman since Jason Woolley scored twice against Florida on April 2, 2001. Alexei Zhitnik was the last Sabres defenseman to score twice at home: also against Florida on March 19, 1998. … Sabres C Chris Drury helped set up both Kalinin goals to record his 200th career assist and 326th point. Drury also extended his point streak to three games, a span in which he’s had two goals and four assists. … The Blue Jackets won four straight in November 2000, during the franchise’s inaugural season.

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