Devils’ Brodeur Goes Home to Turn in a Shutout

The New Jersey Devils are winning and goalie Martin Brodeur is a big reason why.

Brodeur stopped 25 shots for his club-record 107th victory and the Devils defeated the Montreal Canadiens, 4-1, Saturday night to extend their unbeaten streak to 10 games.

Brodeur, a Montreal native, played before a sellout crowd of 21,273 at the Molson Centre. He improved his record to 107 wins, 64 losses and 34 ties, surpassing Chris Terreri (106) for most wins by a Devil goalie.

“Every milestone is important in any player’s career,” said Brodeur, playing his first game at the Molson Centre. “It feels great. I got a win at the old Forum, and now I have a win here.”

Bobby Holik, John MacLean, Steve Sullivan and Denis Pederson had the goals for New Jersey, 6-0-4 since losing, 3-1, to the Ducks on Jan. 22.

“Marty has been playing tremendous hockey,” MacLean said.

Dave Andreychuk and Brian Rolston had two assists each for the Devils. Andreychuk needs three goals to become the 25th player in league history to reach the 500-goal plateau.

Phoenix 5, Boston 4--The Coyotes’ trade for defenseman Jay More is starting to pay dividends.

More, acquired in a Feb. 6 trade with the New York Rangers, scored 1:13 into overtime to give the Coyotes a win at Phoenix.

Phoenix held a 3-0 lead after nine minutes and a 4-1 lead with 14 minutes to play. But the Bruins came back with two third-period goals from Rick Tocchet and forced overtime when Barry Richter scored on a goal-mouth scramble with 3.4 seconds remaining.

More then scored his first goal of the season, taking a pass from Craig Janney and skating into the left faceoff circle. His slapshot deflected off Bruin defenseman Don Sweeney’s stick and rolled through the legs of goalie Bill Ranford, who had missed 20 games because of a cyst in his left shoulder.

Philadelphia 5, Pittsburgh 1--Playing their first game since Eric Lindros injured his back, the Flyers beat the Penguins for the sixth consecutive time at home.

John Druce, Eric Desjardins, Pat Falloon, John LeClair and Daniel Lacroix scored, and Trent Klatt added two assists for the Flyers.

Lindros, who strained his lower back on Thursday, skated before the game but did not play.

Colorado 5, St. Louis 2--Peter Forsberg had two assists, Adam Deadmarsh scored his team-leading 24th goal and the Avalanche beat their former assistant, Joel Quenneville, and the Blues at St. Louis.

Quenneville, an assistant on Colorado’s Stanley Cup championship team last season, left the Avalanche to become coach of the Blues on Jan. 5.

Colorado, the league’s No. 1 team overall and on the road, won for the 18th time away from home. The Avalanche have won eight of their last 11 on the road.

Hartford 2, Ottawa 1--After an asthma attack hospitalized him for a day, Keith Primeau returned to score two goals for the Whalers in Hartford.

Primeau took only two shots in the second period to score his goals.

New York Islanders 1, Florida 0--Claude Lapointe scored at 2:46 of overtime to give the Islanders a win at Uniondale, N.Y.

Lapointe took a pass up the right wing from Dan Plante, moved in on goalie Mark Fitzpatrick and sent a 20-foot backhand shot from the right circle that hit the goalie’s left pad and rolled into the net.

Tampa Bay 4, Washington 1--Dino Ciccarelli moved into a ninth-place tie on the all-time NHL scoring list with a lightning-quick first-period goal at Tampa Bay.

Ciccarelli’s 573rd goal came at 11 seconds, tying the forward with former New York Islander Mike Bossy. Ciccarelli, a 17-year veteran, added an assist to help the Lightning end a four-game losing streak. Tampa Bay had lost eight of nine.

Calgary 3, Toronto 0--At Calgary, Trevor Kidd made 20 saves for his fourth shutout of the season and the Flames won their fifth game in a row.

Corey Millen, Robert Reichel and Jonas Hoglund scored for Calgary.

Trailing, 1-0, the Maple Leafs saw a goal disallowed midway through the second period.

Chicago 2, New York Rangers 0--At Chicago, Bob Probert and Alex Zhamnov scored and goalie Jeff Hackett made 17 saves for his first shutout of the season.

Wayne Gretzky, the NHL’s all-time scorer with 853 goals, remains 0 for 1997. He hasn’t scored in 19 games, the longest drought of his career.

Gretzky has been stuck at 16 goals since scoring twice Dec. 30.