Not Even Avalanche Can Stop Wild, 3-2

Lubomir Sekeras scored 3:43 into overtime Tuesday night to lift the Minnesota Wild to a 3-2 victory over the Colorado Avalanche at St. Paul, Minn., giving the third-year franchise an NHL-best 16 points.

Skating in front of the net, Sekeras took a backhanded pass from Sergei Zholtok from the left side and wristed the puck past David Aebischer to send the sellout crowd into a frenzy.

The Wild, which skated to a 3-3 tie at Colorado on Sunday, is 7-1-2.

Colorado looked dominating early, outshooting the Wild, 14-1, in the first period. But the Wild outshot the Avalanche, 22-9, the rest of the way and again got strong goaltending from Manny Fernandez, who finished with 21 saves.

Aebischer, who started in place of a resting Patrick Roy, made 20 stops and fell to 0-2-0.

Joe Sakic scored Colorado’s goals, and Peter Forsberg had two assists.

Detroit 3, San Jose 2 -- Sergei Fedorov scored two power-play goals, including the game-winner in the third period, as the Red Wings won at Detroit.

Fedorov scored on a five-on-three 2:12 into the third period to break a 2-2 tie. His one-timer from the top of the right circle beat goalie Evgeni Nabokov between the pads.

Fedorov has eight goals this season, and five in his last three games. Jason Williams also scored and Luc Robitaille had two assists for the defending Stanley Cup champions.

Chicago 3, Columbus 2 -- Tyler Arnason deflected in Alexander Karpovtsev’s shot from the point with 6.2 seconds left in the third period to give the Blackhawks a victory at Chicago.

Arnason got the game-winner after Alex Zhamnov won a faceoff in the Columbus zone. Steve Sullivan also scored for Chicago and assisted on Lyle Odelein’s goal. Jocelyn Thibault stopped 20 shots for his 200th NHL victory.

Jaroslav Spacek and Espen Knutsen scored for Columbus, winless on the road this season at 0-3. Marc Denis made 19 saves.

Phoenix 3, New York Islanders 2 -- Landon Wilson batted in a rebound with 3:31 left to give the Coyotes a comeback victory at Uniondale, N.Y.

The Coyotes won the only regular-season meeting between the teams and haven’t lost to the Islanders since Dec. 6, 1997.

Brian Boucher made 31 saves as Phoenix improved its road record to 4-3-0-1. Mike Johnson and Daniel Briere also scored for the Coyotes, who are winless at home (0-3).

Carolina 2, New Jersey 1 -- Jeff O’Neill had a goal and an assist as the Hurricanes again got the best of the Devils in winning at East Rutherford, N.J.

Kevin Weekes made 34 saves and Jaroslav Svoboda also scored as the Hurricanes beat the Devils for the second time this season.

The Devils’ last six losses have all been to Carolina.

The Hurricanes beat them, 4-2, in the first round of the playoffs last year.

Philadelphia 2, Ottawa 1 -- Keith Primeau scored twice to lead the Flyers over the Senators at Philadelphia.

Flyer goaltender Roman Cechmanek stopped 29 shots, including several key saves in the final minutes, as Philadelphia remained unbeaten at home (3-0-1).

Vancouver 1, Buffalo 1 -- Rookie Ales Kotalik scored with 2:39 left in the third period to give the Sabres a tie with the Canucks at Vancouver, Canada.

Ed Jovanovski scored his first goal of the season for Vancouver in the second period.