EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Scott Niedermayer scored on a breakaway with 1:43 left in overtime, and the New Jersey Devils beat the Boston Bruins 3-2 Sunday for their third straight win.
Petr Sykora scored twice for the Devils, who ended the Bruins' seven-game road winning streak.
New Jersey moved within a point of the sixth-place New York Islanders in the Eastern Conference standings. The Devils have three games left, the Islanders four.
Bill Guerin topped 40 goals for the second straight season by scoring twice for the Eastern Conference-leading Bruins, who have dropped three straight games for only the third time this season.
Niedermayer's 10th goal of the season was set up by Patrik Elias and Joe Nieuwendyk.
HURRICANES 1, THRASHERS 1: At Raleigh, N.C., Atlanta's Yannick Tremblay scored with 19 seconds in regulation to tie it and keep the Southeast Division race interesting with a week left in the season.
The Thrashers, who snapped a five-game losing skid, were outshot 38-19 until the final moments, when Tremblay scored his eighth goal seconds after Atlanta pulled goalie Milan Hnilicka.
Ron Francis' goal midway through the first period for his 1,700th NHL point looked like it would hold up until Tremblay's one-timer from the slot off a pass from Dany Heatley.
Eleven of Carolina's league-high 15 ties have been at home.