Thornton’s Goal Lifts Bruins, 5-4

The Boston Bruins have rediscovered their scoring touch and it’s paying off.

Joe Thornton scored at 1:45 of overtime to lift Boston to a 5-4 win over the New Jersey Devils on Thursday night at Boston.

After a stretch of four games in which they scored a total of seven goals, the Bruins now have 10 goals in their last two.

“We have three lines who can score a lot of goals and we are finally coming together,” said Thornton, who also assisted for his 200th NHL point. “We’re finally burying our scoring chances.”

The Devils tied the game at 4-4 when Bobby Holik poked his fifth goal of the season into the net from just in front with 27 seconds left in regulation.

The Bruins had taken a 4-3 lead on Jozef Stumpel’s wrist shot from the slot at 16:37 of the third period.

Bill Guerin scored a goal and added two assists for Boston.

Patrik Elias had a goal and an assist for New Jersey.

Martin Brodeur (8-7-1) made his 16th straight start in goal for New Jersey and stopped 39 of Boston’s 44 shots.

“There are not too many games we can win allowing 44 shots,” Holik said. “We gave them opportunity after opportunity and with that kind of play we’re not going to win many games.”

Phoenix 5, San Jose 3--Daymond Langkow broke a tie with a power-play goal and Ladislav Nagy added his second goal of the game as the Coyotes won at Phoenix.

Sergei Berezin and Krystofer Kolanos also scored for the Coyotes, who overpowered Shark backup goalie Miikka Kiprusoff with a season-high 37 shots.

Chicago 2, Calgary 2--Dean McAmmond’s power-play goal with 4:01 left in the third period gave the Flames a tie at Calgary, Canada.

Jamie Wright also scored for the Flames (12-2-2-2), who rallied from a 2-0 deficit to remain unbeaten in their last seven.

Toronto 3, Tampa Bay 2--Alexander Mogilny scored the tiebreaking goal with 4:18 left in the third period, leading the Maple Leafs to a victory at Tampa Bay, Fla.

Mogilny scored from close range, off a pass from behind the net by Darcy Tucker. The goal was Mogilny’s 18th in 26 games.

Carolina 1, Ottawa 1--Tom Barrasso made 36 saves and Shane Willis scored 14:55 into the second to lift the Hurricanes to a tie at Ottawa.

Martin Havlat, who has scored in five of the Senators’ last six games, got his seventh goal earlier in the second as Ottawa failed to extend its team-best seven-game winning streak.

Philadelphia 5, Washington 0--Keith Primeau, Jiri Dopita and Mark Recchi each scored less than four minutes into the game lifting the Flyers at Philadelphia.

John LeClair and Simon Gagne also scored and Brian Boucher and Roman Cechmanek combined to make 24 saves.

Vancouver 2, St. Louis 1--Matt Cooke scored twice and Dan Cloutier stopped 28 shots as the Canucks won at Vancouver, Canada.

Cooke banged home a loose puck in the crease midway through the first period, then added his second goal with a 15-foot wrist shot 1:10 into the second.