Streaking Red Wings Race Past Coyotes

Not even a poor performance by Chris Osgood and a three-goal deficit in the first-period were able to stop the Detroit Red Wings.

The Red Wings used the strong play of backup goalie Manny Legace, a potent power play and a four-point game from Brendan Shanahan to defeat the Phoenix Coyotes, 6-3, Sunday at Detroit. It gave Detroit an 11-game unbeaten streak (9-0-2) and extended their home unbeaten streak to 12 (11-0-1).

Shanahan, who had two goals and two assists, broke a 3-3 tie with a power-play goal at 8:23 of the third period as the Red Wings moved ahead of St. Louis for first place in the Central Division and second behind Colorado in the Western Conference.

Detroit scored a season-high four power-play goals, and Legace stopped all 18 shots he faced in relief of Osgood.

Edmonton 3, Dallas 2--Todd Marchant scored on a breakaway 31 seconds into overtime at Edmonton.

Anson Carter and Daniel Cleary also scored for the Oilers, who have won three in a row and beat the Stars for the first time since April 3, 1998.

Darryl Sydor and Sergei Zubov scored for the Stars, who were 8-0-2 in their last 10 meetings with the Oilers.

Pittsburgh 6, New York Islanders 1--Few lines in NHL history have been more productive than the Mario Lemieux-Jaromir Jagr line, which has combined for nine scoring titles. But it isn’t the Penguins’ best line right now.

Robert Lang scored twice, and the Penguins didn’t need any goals from their stars to win at Pittsburgh. Lemieux had two assists--the 900th and 901st of his career.

Colorado 5, Atlanta 2--League scoring leader Joe Sakic had a goal and three assists and Rob Blake scored his first goal for the Avalanche and added an assist to lift Colorado at Denver.

Sakic, who began the day with a three-point lead over Jagr--who had one assist against the Islanders--has 10 points in his last five games. He has 36 goals and 52 assists in 63 games.

Philadelphia 2, New York Rangers 1--The Flyers extended their home unbeaten streak to eight games.

Mark Greig had a goal and an assist in his first game as a replacement for leading scorer Simon Gagne. Greig was recalled from the Philadelphia Phantoms of the AHL to fill in for Gagne, who partially dislocated his left shoulder during Saturday’s 0-0 tie with Tampa Bay.

Buffalo 5, Tampa Bay 4--Dave Andreychuk scored twice and added an assist to lead the Sabres at Buffalo. It was the first two-goal game of the season for the 37-year-old Andreychuk, who has 16 goals this season and 568 in his career.

Chicago 6, Toronto 4--Eric Daze scored twice in the third period and Chris Herperger got the game-winner with 3:37 left as the Blackhawks rallied at Chicago.