Devils Hand Flyers a Rare Loss at Home

Martin Brodeur hasn’t been this busy in quite a while.

Brodeur stopped 32 shots to record his 71st shutout, and Grant Marshall and Mike Rupp scored goals as the New Jersey Devils sent the Philadelphia Flyers to their first home loss of the season, 2-0, Saturday night.

The Devils extended their unbeaten streak to five games (4-0-1) and moved within four points of the Atlantic Division-leading Flyers. Philadelphia had won 11 home games in a row and was 12-0-2 overall. The Flyers were the last unbeaten team at home this season.

The teams tied 3-3 on Friday night in New Jersey as the Flyers outshot the Devils, 40-21.

“They threw a lot of shots on the net last night,” Brodeur said. “It was the same type of thing tonight. They got 72 shots in the two games. It usually takes me four or five games to get that.”

Brodeur, the active leader in career shutouts, earned his seventh of the season and recorded his NHL-leading 16th victory. It was his fifth win in a row.

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Boston 3, Ottawa 2 -- Joe Thornton scored with 9:03 left at Ottawa and the Bruins ended a season-high winless streak at five games.

Brian Rolston scored a short-handed goal in the second period to tie the score at 2-2 after making a superb pass to set up Glen Murray’s opening goal only 6:32 into the game.

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Detroit 5, Washington 1 -- Pavel Datsyuk had two goals, including one when his pass was deflected in off a defenseman, and two assists to lead the Red Wings at Washington.

Datsyuk, the NHL points leader with 37, also assisted on goals by Kris Draper and Brendan Shanahan.

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Toronto 3, New York Rangers 1 -- Mikael Renberg scored twice and had an assist at Toronto to lead the Maple Leafs. Gary Roberts scored a goal and two assists for Toronto, which has won 10 of 11.

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New York Islanders 4, Atlanta 0 -- Trent Hunter broke a scoreless tie with 8:45 left and the Islanders tacked on three more goals at Uniondale, N.Y., to end the Thrashers’ winning streak at four.

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Pittsburgh 5, Columbus 3 -- Tomas Surovy scored two goals and Aleksey Morozov had three assists to lead the Penguins at Pittsburgh and keep the Blue Jackets as the NHL’s only winless team on the road (0-10-1-1).

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Montreal 5, Tampa Bay 2 -- Yanic Perreault and Stephane Quintal scored 45 seconds apart late in the first period to lead the Canadiens at Tampa, Fla. Perreault had an empty-net goal in the third period.

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Minnesota 3, Buffalo 2 -- Jim Dowd scored in the final minute to rally the Wild at St. Paul, Minn., and send the Sabres to their fifth consecutive loss.

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Florida 2, Nashville 2 -- Martin Erat scored late in the second period to help the host Predators to a tie at Nashville. Rem Murray scored the other goal for Nashville.

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Colorado 1, Calgary 1 -- John-Michael Liles scored at 13:22 of the third period to lift the visiting Avalanche into a tie at Calgary, Canada.

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The NHL suspended Boris Mironov of the New York Rangers for two games and Adam Mair of the Buffalo Sabres for one game because of their roles in a cross-checking incident Friday.... Ottawa Senator defenseman Anton Volchenkov will have shoulder surgery next week and could be out up to four months.