NEW YORK -- Michael Ryder struck for the second straight
night, wristing a shot off goaltender Kevin Weekes 2:10 into
overtime that gave the Montreal Canadiens a 4-3 victory over the
New York Rangers on Thursday.
Ryder, who had Montreal's first goal of the game, scored the
game-winner Wednesday with 11 seconds remaining in the Canadiens'
season-opening 2-1 victory at Boston.
Alexander Perezhogin had given the Canadiens a 3-2 lead in the
second period before Dominic Moore tied it with 2:36 left in
regulation. Chris Higgins also scored for Montreal.
Marcel Hossa, acquired last Friday from the Canadiens, scored
his second goal of the season and Martin Rucinsky also added one
for the Rangers.<
^Red Wings 4, Blues 3=
ST. LOUIS -- Robert Lang had a goal and an assist, and Jason
Williams had three assists to lead Detroit to a season-opening
home-and-home sweep of the Blues.
Detroit, which beat the Blues 5-1 at home Wednesday night, could
not have asked for a better opponent to open the season. Since
2002-03, Detroit is 11-1-1 against St. Louis.
Mikael Samuelsson, Jiri Fischer and Brendan Shanahan also scored
for Detroit, while Manny Legace made 23 saves for his second win in
as many nights. The victory wasn't assured until the final seconds
as the Blues, with the goalie pulled for an extra attacker, got off
several shots in a goal-mouth scramble. St. Louis outshot Detroit
11-4 in the final period.
Doug Weight had a goal and an assist for St. Louis, while
defenseman Andy Roach scored his first career goal and Dean
McAmmond got his first goal as a member of the Blues.<
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