Penguins Surprise the Flyers

Dick Tarnstrom and Tom Kostopoulos scored power-play goals, and the Pittsburgh Penguins held off host Philadelphia, 2-1, on Monday night to extend the Flyers’ winless streak to five games.

Jean-Sebastien Aubin made 33 saves for the Penguins, who lost, 8-0, to Montreal on Saturday.

“We’ve been struggling big time with both power plays and penalty killing,” Tarnstrom said. “On my goal, I just wrested it toward the net and had a lot of traffic in front of me.”

Aubin preserved the victory with a brilliant save of Mark Recchi’s backhander with 1 minute 35 seconds left in the third period. He also came up big when the Flyers had a two-man advantage that lasted for 1:46 in the second period.

Mike Comrie scored for the Flyers, who had gone 127:31 without scoring. The Flyers were beaten by Edmonton, 3-0, at home Saturday.

Pittsburgh had been 1-20-1 in its previous 22 games at Philadelphia.

Boston 4, Buffalo 3 -- Sergei Samsonov scored the tiebreaking goal with 7:12 remaining at Boston.

Boston has won four in a row and is 5-0-1 in its last six games.

After Jason Botterill gave Buffalo a 3-1 lead 2:35 into the second period, the Bruins scored three consecutive goals, two by rookie Patrice Bergeron.

Nashville 3, Minnesota 3 -- Sergei Zholtok scored on a slap shot with 13 seconds left in the third period at St. Paul, Minn., to give the Wild a tie.

The Wild outshot Nashville, 39-23, but trailed, 3-2, after Vladimir Orszagh’s goal midway through the third period.

Tomas Vokoun made 36 saves for Nashville in his return from a two-game absence because of flu.

St. Louis 7, Chicago 4 -- Chris Pronger had two goals and an assist for the Blues, and the Blackhawks extended their winless streak on the road to 14 games (0-13-0-1).

Chris Osgood of the Blues gave up four goals on 14 shots and was pulled for Reinhard Divis. Michael Leighton of the Blackhawks got the hook in favor of Steve Passmore after giving up four goals on 16 shots.