Blues Steal a Victory From Bruins, 4-3

Boston goalie Felix Potvin learned never to take anything for granted as the Bruins lost in overtime to the Blues, 4-3, Tuesday night at St. Louis in a meeting of first-place teams.

Doug Weight scored with 41 seconds left in overtime, giving St. Louis the victory after Keith Tkachuk had tied the game for the Blues with 29 seconds left in regulation.

“We had them where we wanted to have them, and they made a pretty good play at the end to tie it,” Potvin said.

Weight hit a shot from the faceoff circle, giving the Blues their fifth consecutive home victory. At the other end before Weight’s goal, St. Louis goalie Chris Osgood made a big save on a shot by Sergei Samsonov.

“It was a big win for our team,” Weight said. “With five minutes left being down, 3-2, it was pretty disheartening.”

Tkachuk was parked in front of the net when the rebound of a shot by Scott Mellanby came right to him. Tkachuk put the puck past Potvin for his 11th goal.

“We’re finding ways to win,” St. Louis Coach Joel Quenneville said. “You don’t expect to win like this very often.”

The Blues are 10-4-1 in one-goal games, first in the NHL.

Ottawa 6, Atlanta 3 -- Wade Redden scored two goals, and the Senators rallied from a three-goal deficit to win at Atlanta.

Radek Bonk and Peter Schaefer added goals as the Senators ended the Thrashers’ four-game winning streak.

Atlanta took a 3-0 lead early in the second period before the Senators took control. Redden started the comeback with a goal at 4:30 of the second period. His second goal, 32 seconds into the third period, put Ottawa ahead, 4-3.

Vancouver 5, Montreal 2 -- Markus Naslund had two goals and an assist, and Todd Bertuzzi also had three points to help the Canucks end a five-game road losing streak (0-3-0-2).

Mike Keane scored his first Vancouver goal, and Jason King got his team-leading 11th goal for the Canucks.

Vancouver, coming off back-to-back losses to Toronto, got its first victory in regulation in eight games.

New York Rangers 2, Tampa Bay 0 -- Jussi Markkanen made 36 saves at Tampa, Fla., as the Lightning was shut out for the second consecutive game.

Mark Messier and Jed Ortmyer scored in the first period for the Rangers. For Messier, it was his ninth goal of the season. Ortmyer’s goal was his first in the NHL.

Edmonton 3, Columbus 3 -- Brad Isbister and Radek Dvorak scored third-period goals for the Oilers at Columbus, Ohio.

Manny Malhotra, claimed off waivers from the Dallas Stars on Friday, scored his first goal as a Blue Jacket in his second game with the team. It gave Columbus a 1-0 lead.