Blackhawks Get Overdue Charge

Tony Amonte helped the Chicago Blackhawks recharge their dormant power play.

Amonte scored the first of three power-play goals Sunday, giving the Blackhawks a 4-2 victory over the Edmonton Oilers at Chicago.

Chicago had entered the game ranked 22nd in the league in power-play conversions, having scored only five goals in 57 opportunities.

Denis Savard and Eric Daze also netted power-play goals and Alexei Zhamnov scored Chicago’s other goal.

Amonte’s seventh goal of the season at 4:53 ended Edmonton’s string of killing power plays at 19.

Amonte said the club has been paying extra time working one its man-advantage situations.

“We’ve been practicing a lot the last two or three weeks,” he said. “All in all, we just put more of an effort in the power play and tried to concentrate on it a little more, and good things have been happening for us.”

St. Louis 6, Dallas 3--Brett Hull scored twice and rookie Harry York got his third goal in three games as the Blues ended a four-game losing streak with the victory at St. Louis.

Hull put the Blues ahead to stay, 2-1, at 17:16 of the first period with a shot from the slot that ricocheted off the boot of Brent Gilchrist. He got his sixth goal of the season at 12:58 of the third after a Dallas clearing pass was deflected. Hull has 58 goals in 61 regular-season games against the Stars.

Montreal 4, Phoenix 4--Vincent Damphousse deflected a slap shot by Stephane Quintal with 9:24 left in the game, lifting the Canadiens to the tie at Phoenix.

It was the second consecutive overtime game in as many NHL starts for 20-year-old Montreal goaltender Jose Theodore.