NHL ROUNDUP : A Little Puck Helps Bruins, 6-4

They all agreed Stephane Fiset’s glove was in the net. They disagreed on whether there was a puck inside the glove at the time.

After reviewing several angles for more than three minutes, replay judge Paul Flaherty overruled the goalie and the goal judge, awarding the Boston Bruins a crucial goal in their 6-4 victory over the Quebec Nordiques on Thursday night at Boston.

With the Bruins short-handed, Steve Heinze took the puck at center ice and came in alone on Fiset when defenseman Kerry Huffman fell. Heinze slid the puck to Fiset’s glove side and goal judge Al Ruell ruled there was no goal.

“I made the save with my upper arm,” Fiset said. “Just my glove went in and the puck wasn’t in it. It hit my arm and went down under my stomach.”

Heinze, who had raised his stick in celebration, said: “I didn’t see the puck on this side of the goal line and I saw his glove on the other side of the line, so I put two and two together and I raised my stick.”

It was the Bruins’ fifth goal of a sloppy game dominated by defensive mistakes. It made the score 5-3 early in the second period, and helped Boston pass Quebec and move into second place in the Adams Division.

Pittsburgh 8, St. Louis 4--Mario Lemieux resumed his torrid early-season scoring pace with a goal and three assists, leading the Penguins at Pittsburgh.

Lemieux, coming off his first scoreless game of the season that stopped a club-record 12-game goal streak, helped the Penguins open the game with five goals in a row after St. Louis had tied the score, 2-2.

Lemieux, the runaway NHL scoring leader, has 19 goals and 23 assists for 42 points in 14 games.

The Penguins, off to the best start in their 26-season history, are 11-1-2 overall and 7-0-1 at home, where they have not lost in 17 games since last Feb. 27.

Chicago 1, Toronto 0--Ed Belfour had a dismal outing Tuesday night, giving up two goals on three shots to the Washington Capitals. But the Blackhawk goalie looked sharp in stopping the Maple Leafs with 23 saves at Chicago.

Christian Ruuttu’s 12-foot wrist shot just to the left of Felix Potvin at 7:38 of the second period during a two-on-one breakaway enabled Belfour to record his 10th career shutout, his first this season.

Minnesota 3, New York Islanders 0--Jon Casey stopped 28 shots for his first shutout in almost a year and Dave Gagner scored twice at Bloomington, Minn.

The Islanders suffered their second consecutive shutout and have not scored in 134 minutes, 10 seconds. They wasted a 29-save effort from goalie Glenn Healy.

San Jose 7, Buffalo 5--Pat Falloon scored one goal and had two assists in the third period to help the Sharks break a 4-4 tie and win at San Jose.

Buffalo took a 5-4 lead in the third on Keith Carney’s second goal of the season before Falloon tied the score at 12:16 of the third. He then assisted in goals by Dean Evason and Brian Lawton over the next 2:43 as San Jose pulled away for good.

Calgary 8, Ottawa 4--The Senators remained winless for the 12th consecutive game, as the Flames’ Gary Leeman scored three goals at Calgary. Leeman doubled his season’s output to six goals as Calgary chased away memories of last season’s dubious home loss to the expansion Sharks.