Roy Gets Fourth Shutout in 10 Days

Patrick Roy posted his 57th career shutout and fourth in the last 10 days, and the Colorado Avalanche beat the Edmonton Oilers, 2-0, on Saturday night.

On a night when the Avalanche retired Ray Bourque’s No. 77 sweater, Colorado got a first-period goal from Chris Drury and an empty-netter from Shjon Podein in the final minute.

Roy needed to make only 11 saves for his NHL-leading fifth shutout of the season.

He extended his home shutout streak to 238 minutes, 47 seconds.

Drury scored from the right circle after rookie Radim Vrbata’s long shot rebounded off Oiler goalie Tommy Salo into the slot. Drury raced to the puck, delayed a shot as Salo went sprawling and tucked it past the goalie at 11:45.

The Oilers killed off penalties for the first 3:51 of the second period, which was scoreless despite Colorado’s 9-2 edge in shots.

Roy’s best save came early in the third period when he stopped a point-blank shot by Josh Green. He later had a glove save off Shawn Horcoff.

Before the game, Colorado retired a jersey for the first time, hoisting Bourque’s sweater. Bourque played only 15 months in Colorado but helped the Avalanche win a Stanley Cup last June before retiring.

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Atlanta 6, Ottawa 3--The last-place Thrashers got goals from Pascal Rheaume, Daniel Tjarnqvist and Lubos Bartecko in 67 seconds on their only three shots of the third period to stun the Senators at Ottawa.

The upset ended Ottawa’s 9-0-2-0 undefeated streak.

Rheaume had a pair of goals and Ray Ferraro and Ilya Kovalchuk also scored for the Thrashers, who had not won a road game in 10 attempts since their season-opening victory in Buffalo on Oct. 4.

St. Louis 5, Phoenix 3--Chris Pronger had a goal and two assists as the Blues scored one more goal than they totaled during a five-game losing streak, beating the Coyotes at St. Louis.

Pronger had just one assist in the previous four games and was one of four Blues who ended personal slumps.

Keith Tkachuk and Scott Young each had a goal and an assist for their first points in five games and Doug Weight, scoreless the previous three, had two assists.

The Blues, who were outscored, 12-4, during a dismal five-game trip in which they earned one point for an overtime loss, led 3-0 after the first period.

Toronto 2, Boston 0--Curtis Joseph made 29 saves for his third shutout of the season and 35th of his career as the Maple Leafs won at Toronto.

Travis Green and Jonas Hoglund scored for the Maple Leafs, who had just 12 shots on net.

Montreal 5, Washington 3--Donald Audette, acquired from Dallas on Wednesday, scored his first Montreal goal midway through the third as the Canadiens extended their winning streak to four games with a win at Montreal.

Yanic Perreault, Jan Bulis, Brian Savage and Chad Kilger also scored for the Canadiens.

Pittsburgh 3, Buffalo 1--Kris Beech scored his first NHL goal in the third period to help the Penguins at Pittsburgh.

Beech, one of three players acquired from Washington for Jaromir Jagr, had not scored in 22 games this season and 26 in his career.

Jan Hrdina and Ian Moran also scored for the Penguins.

New Jersey 5, Florida 1--Jason Arnott sparked a four-goal, third-period outburst as New Jersey ended a seven-game winless streak with a win at Sunrise, Fla.

Martin Brodeur stopped 24 of 25 shots. Arnott gave New Jersey a 2-1 lead with a power-play goal at 4:09 of the third period. Petr Sykora, John Madden, Bobby Holik and Jim McKenzie also had Devil goals.