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| October 26, 2001 | Friday | Shaba'an 8, 1422 |
Caps triumph in overtime
SUNRISE (Florida), Oct 25: Peter Bondra, Washington’s perennial scoring leader pre-Jaromir Jagr, notched his second goal of the game 45 seconds into overtime to lift the Capitals to a 4-3 win over the Florida Panthers on Wednesday.
Bondra took a pass from Andrei Nikolishin in the neutral zone, cut to the edge of the left faceoff circle and snapped a wrist shot past Florida goaltender Roberto Luongo for the game winner.
He also scored a powerplay goal in the second period — his league-leading sixth — and assisted on Nikolishin’s first-period tally.
With nine goals in the young season, Bondra is tied for the league lead with Mark Parrish of the New York Islanders.
Five-time NHL scoring champion Jagr, who was acquired by Washington from Pittsburgh in July, sent the game into overtime by scoring the equalizer 2:50 into the third period after being sprung on a breakaway by a pass from Ulf Dahlen.
“Russian Rocket” Pavel Bure had given Florida a 3-2 lead with a powerplay goal at 12:31 of the second period.
Washington’s Olaf Kolzig finished with 22 saves.
In Detroit, Luc Robitaille and Sergei Fedorov extended goal-scoring streaks and the Red Wings took their winning streak to six games with a 4-1 triumph over the Edmonton Oilers.
Fedorov buried a slap shot from the right point on a powerplay in the first period to open the scoring. He now has at least one goal from each of the last five games.
Robitaille made it 3-0 early in the third and has a goal in six consecutive contests.
Tomas Holmstrom and Boyd Devereaux also scored for the Red Wings and defenseman Nicklas Lidstrom assisted on Detroit’s first three goals.
Red Wings goalie Dominik Hasek made 27 saves and improved to 7-1-0 but had his shutout bid foiled when Sean Brown beat a screened Hasek with 5:15 left in the final period.
“He’s a fantastic goaltender,” Oilers center Todd Marchant said. “I thought we had a lot of opportunities to get the puck past him but we couldn’t.”
In Pittsburgh, Stephane Richer had a goal and an assist and goalie Johan Hedberg recovered from a shaky start as the Penguins rallied for a 3-2 victory over the Dallas Stars.
Hedberg surrendered goals to Kirk Muller and Joe Nieuwendyk on Dallas’s first five shots of the game but stopped the next 28 he faced, including a penalty shot by Stars sniper Mike Modano in the third period.
Richer set up Mike Wilson’s first goal of the season to knot the game with 4:50 left in the second period.
At 7:50 of the third, Richer took a pass from Kevin Stevens to beat Ed Belfour and snap the 2-2 tie.
Just under five minutes later, Hedberg denied Modano’s penalty shot as Pittsburgh won for the fourth time in five games, snapping an eight-game winless streak against Dallas.
WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS
DETROIT 4 Edmonton 1
Washington 4 FLORIDA 3 (OT)
Carolina 7 MINNESOTA 3
PITTSBURGH 3 Dallas 2
Anaheim at PHOENIX —Reuters
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