Flames Win It in Final Seconds

Calgary’s Jarome Iginla capped a frenzied final few minutes Friday night, scoring the winning goal with 3.4 seconds left in the Flames’ 4-3 victory against the Boston Bruins Friday night at Calgary, Canada.

Sixty-one seconds after Boston’s Joe Thornton tied the game, Flame defenseman Derek Morris’ slap shot from the blue line was tipped past goaltender Byron Dafoe by Iginla.

Calgary won its third consecutive game and moved within two points of the Edmonton Oilers for the final playoff spot in the Western Conference.

Jason Allison had a goal and two assists for the Bruins. Sergei Samsonov also scored and Ray Bourque had three assists.

Washington 3, New Jersey 2--Jan Bulis and Steve Konowalchuk scored power-play goals less than three minutes apart in the second period as the Capitals won their sixth consecutive game over the slumping Devils at East Rutherford, N.J.

Lyle Odelein and Denis Pederson scored for New Jersey, which is winless in its last five at home (0-4-1), including three consecutive losses.

Carolina 3, New York Rangers 1--Arturs Irbe made 30 saves and Curtis Leschyshyn scored his second goal of the season to help the Hurricanes at New York.

Sami Kapanen and Bates Battaglia also scored for the first-place Hurricanes, who are 5-2-2 in their last nine games and moved six points ahead of Florida in the Southeast Division.

Brian Leetch scored the Rangers’ only goal 40 seconds into the third period.

Detroit 2, Chicago 1--Larry Murphy snapped a tie with a power-play goal at 5:16 of the third period at Chicago as the Red Wings earned their third consecutive victory.

Martin Lapointe also scored for Detroit, which has won all four games against Chicago this season.

Jean-Yves Leroux scored in the first period for Chicago.

Nashville 2, New York Islanders 1--Mike Dunham made 40 saves and Cliff Ronning and Sergei Krivokrasov each scored to lead the Predators at Uniondale, N.Y.