By The Associated Press

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -Marian Hossa scored two goals and the Ottawa Senators held New Jersey to an embarrassing eight shots in the first two periods in a 4-0 victory.

Bryan Smolinski and Josh Langfeld also scored, and Radek Bonk and Martin Havlat had two assists apiece for the Senators, who have lost only once in their last 14 games (10-1-3).

Patrick Lalime made 26 saves for his third shutout of the season and the 31st of his career.

The win was the Senators’ first in three games this season against the defending Stanley Cup champion Devils.

The first two games between the teams that met in the Eastern Conference final last year were thrilling, with New Jersey winning 1-0 and 2-1.

This one was no contest. The 11,456 were so frustrated with the Devils after Hossa stretched the Senators lead to 3-0 late in the second period that they booed loudly. The crowd was walking out midway through the third period.

Hossa gave the Senators the lead at 8:04 of the first period with his 21st goal of the season. Bonk made a nice pass from the sideboards to Petr Schastlivy, setting up a two-on-one that Hossa finished.

Kings 0, Predators 0

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Nashville’s Chris Mason made 33 saves for his first NHL shutout and Los Angeles’ Roman Cechmanek stopped 29 shots in a 0-0 tie.

It was the second straight tie for both teams. Nashville was coming off a 3-3 tie in Minnesota on Monday night, and Los Angeles tied Columbus 2-2 on Saturday night.

The 0-0 tie was the second for the Predators. The last time it happened was March 21, 2001, at Minnesota.

The Predators nearly scored with four minutes left in regulation, but Denis Arkhipov’s wrist shot from the slot bounced off the left goal post.

Lightning 3, Penguins 1

PITTSBURGH – Cory Stillman and Brad Richards scored less than a minute apart early in the first period and the Tampa Bay Lightning ran their franchise-best road winning streak to four, beating the Pittsburgh Penguins 3-1.

Lightning backup goalie John Grahame allowed only one goal for the fourth straight game – all during the road winning streak – while facing only 13 shots. Grahame is 6-1-1 on the road this season and 6-1-1 in his career against Pittsburgh.

While Grahame regularly beats the Penguins, the Lightning don’t – it was their first victory in Mellon Arena since Nov. 6, 1999, going 0-5-1-1 in their last seven games there.

Sabres 6, Flyers 2

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Curtis Brown had two goals and Mika Noronen made 35 saves, leading the Buffalo Sabres to a 6-2 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers.

Chris Drury added a goal and two assists, Jason Botterill had a goal and an assist, and Daniel Briere and Chris Taylor also scored for the Sabres, 2-1-1 in their last four games.

Kim Johnsson and Tony Amonte scored for Philadelphia, 0-4-1-1 in its last six games – the Flyers’ longest winless streak of the season.

Briere and Botterill scored power-play goals 21 seconds apart in the third period to make it 5-2 after Philadelphia defenseman Chris Therien received a five-minute major and a game misconduct for spearing.

Rangers 4, Islanders 1

NEW YORK – Rangers defenseman Tom Poti had a goal and assist, and blue-line partner Brian Leetch set up two scores to lead New York to its fourth straight victory over the rival Islanders, 4-1.

Alex Kovalev and Martin Rucinsky added insurance goals in the third period and Eric Lindros also scored to help the Rangers stretch their unbeaten streak over the Islanders to 6-0-2 – 4-0 this season.

Mike Dunham made 18 saves to improve to 8-2-2 against the Islanders.

Rick DiPietro stopped 27 shots but was unable to put in a performance similar to his perfect 27-save effort against the Rangers on Saturday in relief of Garth Snow.

Snow, who allowed three goals on seven shots in the 3-2 loss, didn’t play for the second time in three games after appearing in 15 straight.

Jason Blake gave the Islanders a 1-0 lead. Poti snapped a 1-1 tie 8:59 into the second period, easily deflecting in a pass from Leetch down low.

Canadiens 5, Blues 2

MONTREAL – Mike Ribeiro and Jan Bulis each had a goal and an assist and backup goalie Mathieu Garon made 16 saves in the Montreal Canadiens’ 5-2 victory over St. Louis.

Ribeiro scored his 10th of the season to tie it at 1-1 midway through the first, and assisted on Richard Zednik’s go-ahead goal 3:44 into the second. Ribeiro leads the Canadiens with 35 points in 44 games.

Michael Ryder and Craig Rivet added goals later in the period and Bulis, who assisted on Ryder’s goal, scored in the third.

Maple Leafs 4, Flames 1

TORONTO – Bryan McCabe scored two power-play goals to help the Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Calgary Flames 4-1.

McCabe, who had two goals against Nashville last Tuesday night, gave Toronto a 1-0 lead in the first and a 3-1 advantage in the third. He has 26 points this season, two more than he had last season.

Canucks 4, Coyotes 1

PHOENIX – Markus Naslund scored two goals to help the Vancouver Canucks extend their road winning streak to eight games with a 4-1 victory over the Phoenix Coyotes on Tuesday night.

Ed Jovanovski and Daniel Sedin added power-play goals for the Canucks, 6-2-1 in their last nine games overall.

Phoenix goalie Brian Boucher, whose string of five consecutive shutouts ended with a first-period goal against Atlanta on Sunday, surrendered a pair goals in the first 9:54.

Todd Bertuzzi had two assists, and was the driving force on the Canucks’ first two scores.

Vancouver opened the scoring at 6:42 of the first period when Bertuzzi flipped the puck toward Boucher from the side of the net. Boucher couldn’t control the puck, which bounced off the ice and was batted into the net by Naslund.

Jovanoski made it 2-0 just over three minutes later when he took advantage of Bertuzzi’s screen just in front of the crease to beat Boucher from the high slot.

Naslund earned an assist on Jovanoski’s goal and added his team-leading 24th goal, an empty-netter with 34 seconds remaining, to raise his NHL-leading point total to 52.

Sedin scored 1:34 into the third period, one-timing a backhand pass by Jason King.

Brian Savage scored Phoenix’s lone goal with 15:50 remaining.

Notes: Sean Burke, the Coyotes’ usual starting goalie, remained on the bench for the seventh consecutive game. … Phoenix’s Ladislav Nagy left with an eye injury after he was high-sticked by Sami Salo with 6:32 left in the second period. No penalty was called on the play.

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