Flyers Stay Hot Without Lindros

Rod Brind’Amour and Valeri Zelepukin scored two goals apiece and the Philadelphia Flyers extended their unbeaten streak to 10 games with a 6-2 victory at Vancouver on Thursday night.

John LeClair had a goal and two assists and Colin Forbes also scored as the Flyers clinched the game with a four-goal second period. LeClair’s goal, with 50 seconds left in the game, was his 200th as a Flyer.

The Flyers were without captain Eric Lindros, the league’s leading scorer, who sat out his first game of the season because of a mild concussion suffered in Calgary on Tuesday.

N.Y. Rangers 6, Colorado 3--Wayne Gretzky and Petr Nedved were among six Rangers with two points as they won for the third consecutive time at Denver.

Mike Richter had 31 saves for New York. The Avalanche’s Craig Billington, making his third consecutive start in place of the injured Patrick Roy (sprained left knee), was chased in the second period.

Montreal 2, Calgary 1--Defenseman Eric Weinrich scored one goal and assisted on another as the revitalized Canadiens defeated the Flames at Calgary for their third consecutive victory.

Montreal had been winless in 11 games before the Christmas break but has since beaten Toronto, Edmonton and Calgary.

Dallas 6, Boston 1--Pat Verbeek scored two goals and Mike Keane got the tiebreaker early in the second period as the Stars extended their unbeaten string to a franchise-record 13 games with a victory at Dallas.

Keane snapped a 1-1 tie and Sergei Zubov extended the lead to 3-1 late in the second period to help the Stars extend their unbeaten run to 10-0-3. The previous club record was a 9-0-3 streak by the Minnesota North Stars in 1982.

Chicago 1, N.Y. Islanders 0--Bob Probert scored his second goal of the season and Jocelyn Thibault stopped 28 shots for his first shutout with the Blackhawks as Chicago won at home.

The Islanders, blanked for a second consecutive game, have lost three in a row.

Toronto 4, Detroit 2--Curtis Joseph made 36 saves and Mats Sundin had two assists at Detroit as the Maple Leafs extended the Red Wings’ winless streak to seven games, their longest in almost eight years.

Igor Korolev, Steve Thomas, Fredrik Modin and Derek King scored for the Maple Leafs, who moved a point ahead of idle Buffalo atop the Northeast Division.

Around the NHL

The NBA’s New Jersey Nets are trying to buy the New Jersey Devils so the owners can move both teams from the Meadowlands to downtown Newark, the Star-Ledger of Newark reported.

The Nets’ chances may hinge on the success of Devil owner John McMullen’s bid to buy the Washington Redskins. McMullen and Charles Dolan, chairman of Cablevision Systems and owner of Madison Square Garden, the New York Knicks and the Rangers, are bidding for the Redskins and Jack Kent Cooke Stadium.

NFL bylaws ban any of its owners to be the principal owner of another pro sports team, which means either Dolan or McMullen must give up current holdings or seek a third party to become the principal owner if they get the Redskins.