PHILADELPHIA – Mark Recchi’s power-play goal broke a tie, helping the Philadelphia Flyers extend their unbeaten streak to nine games with a 3-2 victory over the Boston Bruins on Saturday night.

Justin Williams and Simon Gagne also scored for the Flyers, 8-0-1 in their last nine games and 9-0-2 at home this season.

Brian Rolston scored both of Boston’s goals in a span of 32 seconds in the second period.

The Flyers moved one point ahead of Boston following the early-season matchup of the top two teams in the Eastern Conference.

Jeff Hackett stopped just 11 shots to beat his former team. Hackett played 18 games with the Bruins last season after he was acquired from Montreal. He signed a two-year contract with the Flyers on July 1.

Recchi scored his ninth goal with 2:15 left in the second period after the Flyers had blown a 2-0 lead. Jeremy Roenick and Tony Amonte set up Recchi’s goal with crisp passes. Amonte took a cross-ice pass from Roenick, waited to draw a defenseman toward him, then passed to Recchi, who tipped the puck into an open net.

The line of Recchi, Roenick and Amonte has 55 points in 16 games since they were united early in the season.

Rookie Andrew Raycroft made 23 saves for the Bruins and had his four-game winning streak stopped.

Rolston cut Philadelphia’s lead to 2-1 when he one-timed a shot past Hackett for a power-play goal just 65 seconds into the second period.

Panthers 3, Capitals 2

WASHINGTON – Stephen Weiss scored 1:43 into overtime and the Florida Panthers snapped a three-game losing streak with a 3-2 victory over the Washington Capitals.

Weiss took a feed from Viktor Kozlov, barreled past Washington defenseman Brendan Witt in the slot and beat goaltender Olaf Kolzig for his fourth goal of the season.

Robert Lang scored on a goal-mouth scramble with 59.6 seconds left in regulation, extending his point scoring streak to a career-high 11 games. It is the longest streak in the NHL this season.

Lightning 2, Sabres 1

TAMPA, Fla. – Pavel Kubina scored twice and backup goalie John Grahame made 25 saves to lead the Tampa Bay Lightning to a 2-1 victory over the Buffalo Sabres.

Maxim Afinogenov scored the Buffalo goal.

Blue Jackets 2, Isles 1

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Rick Nash scored his 12th goal midway through the second period and won a key faceoff before the other Columbus Blue Jackets’ score in a 2-1 victory over the New York Islanders.

With the New York goalie pulled, Oleg Kvasha spoiled Fred Brathwaite’s shutout bid by jamming in the puck with just 41 seconds remaining in the game.

Penguins 2, Senators 1

PITTSBURGH – Rookie Ryan Malone scored off a rebound at 2:40 of overtime to lift the Pittsburgh Penguins to a 2-1 victory over the Ottawa Senators..

A backhander by Mike Eastwood was stopped by Senators goaltender Patrick Lalime, but Malone scooped up the rebound and scored his fifth goal of the season and second in overtime.

Red Wings 5, Wild 2

ST. PAUL, Minn. – Curtis Joseph made 27 saves in just his fourth start this season, Brett Hull had a goal and two assists and the Detroit Red Wings beat the Minnesota Wild 5-2.

Blues 2, Stars 1

ST. LOUIS – Pavol Demitra snapped a third-period tie with his 200th career goal and linemate Keith Tkachuk scored in his first game back from a three-game suspension in the St. Louis Blues’ 2-1 victory over the Dallas Stars.

Bill Guerin scored his 12th goal, and first on the road, for the Stars.

Dallas is 1-6-2 in its last nine games, the lone victory coming Friday night over the Kings.

The Stars had trouble against a team that had allowed nine goals in its two previous games.

Demitra’s seventh goal gave the Blues a 2-1 lead at 9:52 of the third. He took a pass from Mellanby at the blue line and split the defense before beating Marty Turco to the stick side.

Demitra has four goals and six assists in his last seven games and leads the team with 20 points.

Guerin got the game’s first goal at 1:10 of the second period, beating Chris Osgood after a cross-ice feed from Jason Arnott. In his last 12 games, Guerin has nine goals and seven assists.

Tkachuk tied it with his seventh goal at 10:38 from the slot after Demitra won a battle for the puck in the corner. A half-minute later, Turco stopped Tkachuk on a penalty shot that would have put the Blues ahead.

Tkachuk, who was pulled down on a breakaway by Stu Barnes, is 1-for-4 on penalty shots for his career. Turco stopped him with a glove save.

Notes: Demitra has two game-winning goals and has scored in 14 of his 16 games. … The Blues have played in an NHL-high 14 one-goal games and are 9-5 in that span. … The Blues have 200 victories at the Savvis Center, the most of any NHL team in a building that opened in the 1990s. They’re 200-108-43-8 at home since the arena opened in 1994-95. … The Stars had been 2-0-1-0 in their previous three games against the Blues. … Stars captain Mike Modano is minus-14 for the season. … The Blues have won four in a row at home, and are 6-2 in their last eight overall.

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since Nov. 8, Joseph allowed a power-play goal to Richard Park in the first period and a goal by Alexandre Daigle early in the second.

The Wild, winners of one of their last five, were shut out for the final 36 minutes, 17 seconds.

Since Hasek returned from a one-year retirement, Joseph has been an afterthought with fourth-year goaltender Manny Legace getting six starts. The Red Wings have been trying to trade Joseph and his $8 million salary.

The Western Conference foes played in Minnesota last Saturday, too, with the Red Wings forcing a 1-1 tie on Steve Yzerman’s third-period goal.

This time, Detroit rallied much earlier against Dwayne Roloson – who gave up two goals or less in each of his previous seven games.

Daigle scored for the third straight game when he slammed in a back-hander on a perfect pass from rookie Brent Burns to put the Wild up 2-1.

Devereaux’s slap shot from the blue line tied it 23 seconds later, and Lidstrom scored on a wrap-around pass from Datsyuk three minutes after that.

Draper made it 4-2 with his sixth goal of the season later in the second, and Datsyuk scored on a breakaway with 2 seconds left.

Starting for the sixth time in eight games, Roloson made 28 saves. He didn’t get much help from an injury-thinned defense, though. Willie Mitchell (knee) and Alex Henry (groin) are both out.

Notes: Hull has four goals and three assists in his last six games. … D Jason Marshall, who played in the season opener before being sent to Minnesota’s AHL affiliate in Houston, was recalled Friday to fill in for Mitchell. Marshall picked up a most unfortunate penalty in the first period – playing with a broken stick. The blade snapped off as he fielded a pass along the board in the Wild zone. … Veteran LW Ray Whitney (groin) missed his third straight game for Detroit. … Minnesota LW Pierre Marc-Bouchard (thumb) went on injured reserve.

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in the first period for the Penguins, who snapped a three-game losing streak.

The Senators have won just three of their last 11 games (3-5-0-3).

For just the second time in 19 games this season, the Penguins held the lead at the end of the first period. Surovy, playing his fifth game since being recalled from the AHL, scored on a wrist shot from 25 feet when the shot glanced off Lalime’s glove at 6:40.

The Senators’ Jason Spezza had a goal disallowed at 10:24 of the first period when he was penalized for tripping Caron.

Notes: The Penguins have just five victories through 19 games. The only Pittsburgh team with fewer wins after 19 games was the 1968-69 team, which had three. … The Senators played without Daniel Alfredsson (knee) and Martin Havlat (hamstring) and scratched Anton Volchenkov. … The Penguins scratched Brian Holzinger and Ramzi Abid for the second consecutive game. … Ottawa, which played 11 of its first 17 games at home, travels to New York to face the Rangers on Sunday and plays in Atlanta on Tuesday. … Alfredsson is not expected to play against the Rangers. … The game featured a second period fight between 6-foot-9 Chara of Ottawa and 6-8 Steve McKenna of the Penguins.

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come at home where the Blue Jackets are 7-3-1 and play six of their next eight.

The Islanders have lost two straight and have only two wins in seven games.

Trevor Letowski tipped a loose puck ahead to Nash, who skated in alone from center ice and beat Rick DiPietro with a close-range chip shot at 9:04 to make it 1-0.

New York seemed to take control moments earlier but Kvasha couldn’t convert on a tip-in play, and Mark Parrish rang a shot of a goal post.

Todd Marchant made it 2-0, redirecting a point shot from Jaroslav Spacek with just 0.9 seconds left in the second period. Nash won the faceoff to Geoff Sanderson, who fed Spacek.

Notes: Manny Malhotra, claimed off waivers Friday from Dallas, played his first game for Columbus and centered the fourth line. Malhotra was the New York Rangers’ first-round pick (seventh overall) in 1998. … The Islanders, who entered with the best penalty-killing unit in the NHL, killed all five of Columbus’ power plays. New York finished 0-for-6 on the power play. … The shots were only 11-10 in favor of Columbus midway through. Columbus outshot New York 29-25 for the game. … The Islanders have only two road wins this season in 10 tries (2-6-2).

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46th place on the career list. … Noronen made 35 saves in Buffalo’s 5-0 win over Carolina on Friday.

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