Red Wings Have Quite a Legace

Manny Legace doesn’t play often, but when he does he wins.

The Detroit Red Wings’ backup goaltender stopped 36 shots for his seventh win without a loss this season as Detroit defeated the New Jersey Devils, 4-2, on Friday night at Detroit.

Legace has a 19-game unbeaten streak (17-0-2) over the last two years.

“I can’t explain it,” said Legace, who is Dominik Hasek’s backup and served that role behind Chris Osgood last season. “I’m just going out there and trying to compete and play. The stars have pointed down on me.”

Detroit, 8-0-1 in its last nine, improved its NHL-best record to 22-3-1-1.

Legace’s contribution to that is a 7-0-0 record, 1.96 goals-against average and a .931 save percentage.

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Colorado 5, Vancouver 2--Milan Hejduk scored twice and Patrick Roy stopped 31 shots as the Avalanche won at Vancouver, Canada.

Steven Reinprecht, Greg de Vries and Joe Sakic also scored for Colorado, which won its third consecutive.

Washington 6, Carolina 2--Peter Bondra scored twice, establishing a franchise record for goals scored, in the Capitals’ victory over the Hurricanes at Washington.

Bondra notched the 398th goal of his 12-year career 4:04 into the first period when he swept in Dainius Zubrus’ rebound from the right side. Bondra had tied Mike Gartner’s club record of 397 goals Wednesday night in a 5-2 loss to Buffalo.

Toronto 2, Chicago 1--Alexander Mogilny and Mats Sundin scored and Curtis Joseph blocked 18 shots as the Maple Leafs handed the Blackhawks their first home loss of the season.

Injured defenseman Rob Blake didn’t travel with the Colorado Avalanche for their game against the Vancouver Canucks.

Blake stayed in Colorado and is expected to miss the team’s next road game because of a groin injury. He’s expected to return for Tuesday’s home game against Ottawa.