Roy’s 51 Saves Worthy of a Tie

The Maple Leafs outshot the Pacific Division-leading Colorado Avalanche, 53-19, at Toronto on Wednesday night, but with Colorado’s Patrick Roy at his best, all the Maple Leafs got for their effort was a 2-2 tie.

“It was a great hockey game,” Toronto center Steve Sullivan said. “We fired the puck all night at Roy, but he made some great saves.”

In fact, the Maple Leafs needed a third-period goal from Tie Domi to salvage the tie.

“They worked hard. Of course they deserved to win,” Roy said.

The tie extended Toronto’s unbeaten streak to a season-high three games.

Igor Korolev also scored for Toronto. Rene Corbet and Stephane Yelle scored for Colorado.

“It’s nice to give the fans here a game,” Toronto Coach Mike Murphy said. “It has been three years since they’ve seen that kind of effort.”

Phoenix 3, Chicago 3--Keith Tkachuk scored a power-play goal with 7:23 left in regulation as the Coyotes rallied for the tie at Chicago. Rick Tocchet and Jayson More also scored for Phoenix.

Tony Amonte scored twice and Ethan Moreau once for the Blackhawks.

Montreal 4, St. Louis 3--Vincent Damphousse scored 55 seconds into overtime to cap the Canadiens’ rally from a 3-0 third-period deficit for the victory over the Blues at Montreal.

“We got off very lucky,” Montreal Coach Alain Vigneault said. “As the season progresses you can’t play many games like that and expect to win.”

Calgary 4, N.Y. Rangers 1--The Flames completed a sweep of New York teams on consecutive days, having beaten the Islanders, 3-1, on Tuesday.

Rick Tabaracci made 30 saves, losing the shutout on a power-play goal by Adam Graves in the last minute at New York.

Dallas 3, Tampa Bay 0--Ed Belfour had to stop only 12 shots for his franchise-record seventh shutout and Sergei Zubov had a goal and an assist as the Stars extended their home winning streak to seven games.

New Jersey 4, Edmonton 2--Mike Dunham made 27 saves and gave the Devils a rare victory without Martin Brodeur in the net as the Oilers were upended at East Rutherford, N.J.

Florida 5, Carolina 2--Robert Svehla scored one goal and assisted on two others as the Panthers beat the Hurricanes at Greensboro, N.C., for only their second two-game winning streak of the season.

San Jose 3, Washington 3--Peter Bondra’s power-play goal with 28 seconds left in the third period, his second of the game, gave the Capitals a tie at San Jose.

It was Bondra’s 21st goal of the season.