Jagr Is Injured in Loss

Jaromir Jagr, the NHL’s leading scorer, injured his right hamstring Monday night in the Pittsburgh Penguins’ 2-1 loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning at Tampa, Fla., and will be sidelined indefinitely.

Jagr, held scoreless for a season-high third consecutive game, heard his hamstring “crack” as he became tangled with the Lightning’s Todd Warriner near the offensive blue line with 12 seconds left in the second period.

Jagr said he was told the injury can sideline a player for as long as a month.

“How severe, I don’t know,” Penguin Coach Herb Brooks said. “But it doesn’t look too good.”

Nashville 5, Dallas 2--Ville Peltonen had a goal and an assist and Tomas Vokoun stopped 23 shots as the Predators ended a six-game losing skid by beating the defending Stanley Cup champions at Nashville, Tenn.

Nashville hadn’t scored more than two goals in a game since Feb. 2, also the last time it won a game. Dallas was coming off a tough 2-1 victory over Colorado at Denver Sunday and appeared tired as it lost for the third time in 10 games.

Detroit 2, New York Islanders 0--Chris Osgood stopped 22 shots as this victory at Uniondale, N.Y., came one day after the Red Wings played a bad third period and lost to the Chicago Blackhawks.

The Islanders have been playing their best hockey of the season. In the past week they earned a tie in Philadelphia and a victory in New Jersey--two of the top three teams in the Eastern Conference.

Buffalo 3, New Jersey 2--Geoff Sanderson scored the winning goal with 3:59 left in the third period at Buffalo and Dominik Hasek made 35 saves for the Sabres.

Ottawa 4, Florida 2--Vaclav Prospal’s shot slipped out of Panther goalie Mike Vernon’s glove for the go-ahead goal for the Senators with 5:58 left in the second period at Sunrise, Fla.

Washington 1, Carolina 1--The Capitals’ Ken Klee deflected a shot past Arturs Irbe with 8:29 left to play at Raleigh, N.C.