NHL ROUNDUP : An Avalanche of Goals for Colorado, 12-2

The Colorado Avalanche broke out of their worst slump of the season in style.

Colorado’s Valeri Kamensky recorded his first career hat trick and the Avalanche tied a franchise record for goals in a game and set a record for margin of victory with a 12-2 victory over San Jose on Tuesday night at Denver.

Eight Avalanche players scored as Colorado also matched a club record with six first-period goals and broke a season-worst three-game losing streak.

The scoring burst marked the third time the franchise has scored 12 goals in a game, with the most recent coming 11 years ago.

Vancouver 6, Edmonton 2--Roman Oksiuta had two goals as the Canucks won back-to-back games for the first time this season.

Vancouver scored early at home to lead, 4-2, in the first period and, 5-2, after the second.

St. Louis 1, Calgary 1--The Flames’ German Titov scored the tying goal with 4:03 left in the third period to give Calgary the tie at home.

St. Louis opened the scoring, capitalizing on a Calgary turnover midway through the third period.

Detroit 5, Philadelphia 3--Defenseman Paul Coffey moved within three assists of another career milestone and the Red Wings won at Detroit.

Coffey, who assisted on two of three goals in the second period that gave Detroit a 4-0 lead, improved his career assist total to 997.

Pittsburgh 6, New York Islanders 3--Mario Lemieux extended his point-scoring streak to nine games with a goal and three assists to help the Penguins to the victory at Uniondale, N.Y.

Markus Naslund had a goal and two assists and Tomas Sandstrom, Glen Murray, Chris Joseph and Jaromir Jagr each scored for the Penguins.

Florida 4, Washington 3--Jesse Belanger had two goals and an assist and Scott Mellanby also had three points, leading the Panthers in the game at Landover, Md.

The Panthers took a 4-1 lead into the final period and held on. Florida is 11-0-0 when leading after two periods.

Boston 6, Dallas 4--Sandy Moger and Steve Leach scored third-period goals and Adam Oates added two more to lift the Bruins to the victory at Boston.

Moger’s goal came on a rebound of his own shot. Leach got his fifth goal of the season into an empty net with 27 seconds left.

Toronto 4, Ottawa 1--Backup goaltender Damian Rhodes made 39 saves as the Maple Leafs extended the Senators’ winless streak to 14.

Mike Craig, Benoit Hogue and Todd Warriner scored for the Maple Leafs, who were 0-3-2 before meeting the hapless Senators at Toronto. Doug Gilmour also got credit for a goal the Senators scored on themselves.

NHL Notes

The deal to move the Winnipeg Jets to Phoenix is expected to be closed by the end of the week. Jerry Colangelo, who will be a minority owner of the NHL team, said only details remain to be worked out. . . . Defenseman Kevin Hatcher of the Dallas Stars was suspended four games and fined $1,000 for slashing Colorado’s Claude Lemieux in a game Sunday night. . . . Alexei Yashin’s grievance against the Ottawa Senators was dismissed, ending the center’s hopes to be declared a free agent.