Gilmour Marks Toronto Return With Quick Goal

Doug Gilmour scored on his first shift in Maple Leaf Gardens since being traded and Martin Brodeur stopped all 25 Toronto shots as the New Jersey Devils extended their winning streak to five games with a 3-0 victory at Toronto.

Denis Pederson and Bobby Holik added goals for the Eastern Conference leaders, who improved their record to 22-9-0.

Brodeur got his fourth shutout of the season.

Gilmour, who was presented with a framed print during a pre-game ceremony, scored his seventh goal of the season 80 seconds after the opening faceoff. He positioned himself to the right of goaltender Felix Potvin and deflected in a pass slapped to him from the blue line by Doug Bodger.

Edmonton 4, St. Louis 1--Boris Mironov had a goal and an assist and the Oilers victimized the NHL’s No. 2 penalty-killing unit by scoring three goals on the power play at St. Louis.

Mironov assisted on a second-period goal, a break-in by Mats Lindgren that snapped a 1-1 tie. He slapped in the rebound of his own shot at 3:02 of the second period for a two-goal lead as the Oilers wrapped up a 2-1-1 trip and ended the Blues’ three-game home winning streak.

Entering the game, St. Louis had allowed only 11 goals in 127 power plays. Dan McGillis also scored with the man advantage and Doug Weight had two assists for the Oilers, who were 3-for-10.

Goalie Curtis Joseph did the rest, stopping 36 shots to frustrate his former team. Brett Hull was blanked on 10 shots, including three attempts from the side of the net near the 15-minute mark of the second period, and Steve Duchesne on seven.

Tampa Bay 3, Ottawa 1--The Lightning ended a 16-game road winless streak with the victory at Kanata, Ontario.

Igor Ulanov, Rob Zamuner and Jason Wiemer scored for the Lightning (6-20-4), who last won away from home in Chicago on Oct. 9. The Lightning had lost their last 11 road games heading into the Corel Centre.

Bruce Gardiner scored for Ottawa.

The win was Tampa Bay goaltender Corey Schwab’s first of the season. Lightning forwards hadn’t scored in the team’s three previous games.

New York 4, Florida 1--Tommy Salo stopped 23 shots and Ken Belanger broke a tie with his first NHL goal as the Islanders won at home.

Claude Lapointe, Todd Bertuzzi and Bryan Smolinski also scored for New York, which broke a two-game losing streak.

Ed Jovanovski scored for the Panthers.

Panthers goaltender Mark Fitzpatrick stopped 23 shots.

Boston 4, Montreal 2--Anson Carter set up Sergei Samsonov’s first-period power-play goal and also scored one, lifting the Bruins to the win at Boston.

Ted Donato and Ray Bourque added the other Boston goals as the streaking Bruins won their fourth in a row.

Turner Stevenson and Sebastien Bordeleau scored for Montreal, which dropped its second game in two nights.

The Bruins beat the Canadiens at their own strength in the first period with the two power-play scores and completely muffled Montreal’s own top-rated power play. The Canadiens were 0-for-3 with the man advantage.

Colorado 5, Vancouver 2--Peter Forsberg scored twice and assisted on another goal as the Avalanche ended a three-game winless streak at Vancouver.

The NHL’s scoring leader with 11 goals and 32 assists, Forsberg keyed a four-goal outburst by the Avalanche in the first period in handing Vancouver its fifth consecutive loss.

The Avalanche, who had only one tie in their last three games, improved to 17-7-9 with the victory, while Vancouver dropped to 9-19-4.