EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Guy Hebert stopped 38 shots and the New York Rangers ended a 23-game winless streak that spanned four years against New Jersey, beating the Devils 4-3 Saturday.
Petr Nedved, Adam Graves, Michal Grosek and Sandy McCarthy scored for the Rangers in the game that featured the second-period ejections of Mark Messier and Jason Arnott.
The Rangers were 0-15-8 against the Devils in the regular season since Jan. 12, 1997.
Alexander Mogilny scored twice and Randy McKay had a goal for the Devils, who outshot New York 41-19.
BRUINS 4, ISLANDERS 2: Jason Allison recorded a hat trick, scoring the game-winner with 1:19 left and then adding an empty-netter as Boston beat the New York Islanders.
Boston, behind Byron Dafoe's 21 saves, moved one point ahead of Carolina into eighth place in the Eastern Conference playoff race.
The Bruins led 2-1 before Branislav Mezei put a screen shot past Dafoe with 7:22 left.
Sergei Samsonov had the other Boston goal. Eric Cairns scored for New York.
CANADIENS 4, MAPLE LEAFS 1: Karl Dykhuis had two goals and assisted on another as Montreal beat Toronto.
Benoit Brunet, who hadn't scored since Oct. 10, and Craig Darby added goals for Montreal, which improved to 3-0-1 in its last four games and ended a five-game losing streak against Toronto.
Jose Theodore continued to impress in Jeff Hackett's absence, making 32 saves as the Canadiens were outshot 33-22.
Aki Berg scored the lone goal for Toronto, which had outscored the Canadiens 18-4 in four previous meetings this season.
PREDATORS 4, WILD 1: Mike Dunham stopped 41 shots and Scott Walker had two goals and an assist as Nashville beat Minnesota.
Nashville finished the season series with three victories and a tie over Minnesota, which had a season-high shot total.
The loss stretched the Wild's winless skid to 10 straight games, including four consecutive road losses. Nashville, which was eliminated from the playoffs in its previous game, improved to 6-2-1-1 over its past 10 games.
COYOTES 3, SHARKS 1: Mike Johnson and Landon Wilson scored early goals as Phoenix beat San Jose.
Wilson added an empty-net goal with 16 seconds left for the Coyotes, who preserved their one-point lead over Los Angeles in the race for the final Western Conference playoff spot.
The Kings, who beat Colorado 4-0 earlier, own the tiebreaker on Phoenix and have four games left to three for the Coyotes. The teams play Tuesday night at Phoenix.
Sean Burke made 16 saves and allowed only Mike Ricci's goal in snapping San Jose's three-game unbeaten streak.
FLYERS 1, RED WINGS 0: Kent Manderville scored the only goal as Philadelphia beat Detroit, ending a four-game winless streak.
It was the 10th shutout of the season for Philadelphia's Roman Cechmanek, one fewer than NHL leader Dominik Hasek of Buffalo.
Detroit, which has the NHL's best record since the All-Star break, had won four straight. The Red Wings have lost only three of 25 games.
KINGS 4, AVALANCHE 0: Ziggy Palffy had two goals and an assist in the first period and Felix Potvin notched his career-high sixth shutout as Los Angeles beat Colorado.
Jozef Stumpel added a goal and two assists as the Kings scored three times on six first-period shots on their way to ending rookie goalie David Aebischer's five-game winning streak.
Potvin, acquired by the Kings in a Feb. 15 trade, stopped 29 shots and is 11-4-4 for Los Angeles, with five shutouts. Three of his 19 career shutouts have come in his last four games.
PENGUINS 5, BLUES 3: Mario Lemieux set up Jaromir Jagr's tying goal before scoring the game-winner with 1:12 remaining as Pittsburgh rallied with four goals in the third period to beat St. Louis.
The rally clinched the Penguins' 11th consecutive trip to the playoffs, the second longest streak in the NHL to St. Louis' 22.
Jagr, trying for his fifth NHL scoring title, has five goals in three games and Lemieux has three in two games as the Penguins have won four in a row with rookie Johan Hedberg in goal.
St. Louis, which had been 31-0-3-2 when leading after two periods, squandered a 3-1 lead. The Blues have won only four times in 21 games (4-10-4-3).
STARS 2, FLAMES 0: Rookie Marty Turco made 27 saves for his third shutout as the Stars stretched their unbeaten streak to 10 games with a win over Calgary.
Joe Nieuwendyk and Mike Modano scored for Dallas, which moved within four points of the Detroit Red Wings in the race for second place in the Western Conference.