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PITTSBURGH — Martin St. Louis put a backhander between Marc-Andre Fleury’s pads in a shootout and the Tampa Bay Lightning shook off a remarkable goal by Sidney Crosby while skating on his stomach to beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 3-2 Sunday night.
Fleury stopped Brad Richards and Vincent Lecavalier to start the shootout, but St. Louis skated down the slot and faked out Fleury by going to his backhand and then slipping the puck between the goalie’s legs. Crosby had a chance to send the shootout to another round but, like Eric Christensen and Evgeni Maklkin before him, couldn’t get the puck past Johan Holmqvist.
Holmqvist has stopped all 10 skaters he has faced in shootouts this season.
Nick Tarnasky put Tampa Bay ahead 2-1 with about six minutes left in the third period by lifting a wrist shot from the high slot past Fleury, but Mark Recchi — who also set up Crosby’s goal — tied it on a power-play goal set up by Crosby with 2 1/2 minutes left in regulation.
Devils 3, Canadiens 0
MONTREAL — Martin Brodeur made 28 saves for his league-leading seventh shutout of the season and Brian Gionta scored twice, lifting the Devils.
Brodeur, who leads the league with 25 wins, is third in career shutouts with 87. He trails George Hainsworth (94) and Terry Sawchuck (103).
Gionta, who scored late in the first to put New Jersey up 2-0, got his second of the game — his team-leading 19th — on a power-play 12:47 into the third.
Mike Rupp scored his third goal 2:21 in, and Scott Gomez and Brian Rafalski each had two assists for the Devils, who have won three in a row.
Senators 6, Flyers 1
OTTAWA — Dany Heatley had two goals and an assist, and linemate Daniel Alfredsson added a goal and two assists in the Senators’ victory.
The third member of that line, Chris Kelly, had a goal and an assist to help the Senators win.
Martin Gerber, making a rare home start in place of Ray Emery, made 20 saves, allowing only R.J. Umberger’s goal.
Antero Niittymaki made 37 saves for Philadelphia in his 11th straight loss.
Coyotoes 4, Blackhawks 2
CHICAGO — Jeremy Roenick had a goal and an assist as the Coyotes won their season-high sixth straight.
Michael Zigomanis, Fredrik Sjostrom and Oleg Saprykin also scored for Phoenix.
Patrick Sharp and Peter Bondra scored for the Blackhawks.
Ducks 4, Red Wings 2
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Bjorn Melin scored in his NHL debut and the Anaheim Ducks also got goals from Travis Moen and Ryan Getzlaf to beat the Red Wings, ending a four-game losing streak.
Ilya Bryzgalov, making his third consecutive start in net because of Jean-Sebastien Giguere’s groin injury, made 33 saves to help send Detroit to its third straight loss. Rob Niedermayer added an empty-net goal with 4.1 seconds left.