DETROIT - Brendan Shanahan's second goal of the game snapped a third-period tie, and the Detroit Red Wings beat the Rangers, 4-3 on Saturday, to break New York's streak of seven games in which it earned at least a point.
Robert Lang and Johan Franzen also scored for the Red Wings.
Jaromir Jagr, Michael Nylander and Jed Ortmeyer had the goals for the Rangers.
Shanahan's second goal broke a 2-2 tie when he poked his own rebound over sprawled Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist less than six minutes into the third period. It was Shanahan's 22nd goal of the season.
Franzen then tipped in a pass from Kris Draper with 5:21 left.
Ortmeyer got his goal with 2:26 remaining.
Jagr, the NHL's scoring leader, had the only goal of the first period.
He put a one-time shot past Manny Legace from the bottom of the left circle with 1:15 remaining. He now has 29 goals.
STARS 2, BRUINS 1 (SO)
In Boston, Jussi Jokinen scored the only goal of the shootout to lift Dallas to its season-high sixth consecutive win.
Stars goalie Marty Turco made 26 stops before turning aside Patrice Bergeron, Marco Sturm and Sergei Samsonov in the shootout.
The Stars tied the game 1-1 when Sergei Zubov completed a two-on-one break with Mike Modano 8:42 into the third period by firing a wrist shot inside the right post.
AVALANCHE 5, FLYERS 4 (OT)
In Philadelphia, Alex Tanguay scored with 45.8 seconds left in overtime, helping Colorado spoil Peter Forsberg's first game against his former team.
The Flyers forced overtime with a frantic final 2 minutes of regulation, getting goals from Mike Knuble and Forsberg before getting dominated in the extra period.
The Avalanche took nine of their 34 shots in overtime and held the Flyers without a shot.
CANUCKS 8, ISLANDERS 1
In Uniondale, N.Y., Todd Bertuzzi scored twice on Vancouver's first three shots en route to his fifth career hat trick, and the Canucks chased New York Islanders goalie Rick DiPietro with three second- period goals.
The good feeling the Islanders generated Thursday night in interim coach Brad Shaw's NHL debut was lost quickly as the Canucks built a three-goal lead in the first 11 minutes.
Vancouver scored three more goals in the second period, two against DiPietro and one against Wade Dubielewicz - 9 seconds after he came in.
CANADIENS 6, SHARKS 2
In Montreal, Andrei Markov had two goals and two assists in a six-goal second period to help Montreal general manager Bob Gainey win his Canadiens coaching debut.
Markov and Chris Higgins scored short-handed goals and Markov also had one of Montreal's four power-play goals in the second.
All of the Canadiens' goals against Evgeny Nabokov in the period came as the result of special teams play.
COYOTES 4, MAPLE LEAFS 3
In Toronto, Paul Mara, Geoff Sanderson, Ladislav Nagy and Fredrik Sjostrom scored goals to help Phoenix overcame a three-goal, first-period deficit in a victory over Toronto.
Phoenix has won two consecutive following a four-game losing skid.
CANADIENS: The Montreal Canadiens fired coach Claude Julien, with general manager Bob Gainey taking over on an interim basis and Guy Carbonneau slated to become coach at the season's end.
The Canadiens got off to a strong 12-3 start this season under Julien before losing 18 of their past 25 games.
"We have to push back so that we're moving up the standings by putting points on the board, rather than the other direction," Gainey said at a news conference.
Gainey and Carbonneau, who played together in Montreal and worked together in Dallas, agreed to defer Carbonneau's appointment so he could develop a relationship with the players.
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