A Healthy Heinze Leads Bruins Over Hurricanes

If Steve Heinze could only stay healthy.

The Boston Bruins’ right wing had three goals and an assist in leading Boston to a 4-1 victory over the Carolina Hurricanes on Saturday night at Boston.

He now has five goals in the five games since returning from a foot injury which kept him out of the lineup for 14 games.

The loss ended a three-game unbeaten streak for Carolina, which played its sixth game in the past nine days.

“The Bruins seemed more fired up than they were last week in Carolina [in a 3-1 Hurricanes victory],” said Carolina Coach Paul Maurice.

Bruin goaltender Byron Dafoe (10-10-4) stopped 24 shots to notch Boston’s first back-to-back wins in a month.

Colorado 6, Vancouver 4--Eric Lacroix scored two goals and Peter Forsberg and Joe Sakic had two assists each as the first-place Avalanche increased its lead over the Kings and Mighty Ducks by beating the Canucks at Denver.

Patrick Roy stopped 31 shots and remained unbeaten in seven games (5-0-1 with a no-decision).

Paval Bure had a hat trick and an assist for the Canucks, 4-1-1 in their last six road games. Bure has 12 goals and 14 assists in his last 16 games.

Vancouver goaltender Kirk McLean was pulled at 7:18 of the second period after giving up three goals in 18 shots.

St. Louis 4, Calgary 3--Geoff Courtnall scored with 22 seconds left in overtime to give the Blues a victory over the Flames at St. Louis.

Courtnall scored from a pileup in front of the net after taking a pass from Brett Hull.

The game went into overtime after Calgary’s German Titov scored with less than nine minutes remaining to tie the score.

The Blues had overcome a two-goal deficit to lead 3-2 when Titov scored on a power play at 11:15 of the third. The Flames had not scored in their last 47 power plays before Titov’s goal.

New York Rangers 3, Montreal 3--Adam Graves scored with 5:23 left in the third period to give the struggling Rangers a tie at Montreal. But the Rangers are still winless in eight games.

It was the 11th tie of the season for the Rangers, who played Philadelphia to a 4-4 draw Friday night. New York is 0-4-4 in its last eight games.

Brian Skrudland had two goals for New York (8-12-11), which is 13 ties short of the NHL record for a season. The 1969-70 Philadelphia Flyers were involved in 24 deadlocks.

Ottawa 3, Buffalo 0--Ron Tugnutt stopped 25 shots and earned his first shutout of the season as the Senators beat the Sabres at Kanata, Canada.

Alexandre Daigle and Shawn McEachern scored power-play goals as the Senators snapped Buffalo’s four-game unbeaten streak. Randy Cunneyworth added an empty-netter with 48 seconds left in the game, his first goal in 24 games.

New Jersey 4, Tampa Bay 2--Brian Rolston scored two goals at East Rutherford, N.J., as the Devils struck down the Lightning, the NHL’s worst road team.

Bill Guerin and Bobby Holik also scored for the Devils, 11-4-0 in their last 15 games.

New York Islanders 4, Phoenix 0--Tommy Salo stopped 22 shots for his second shutout this season to lead the Islanders over the Coyotes at Uniondale, N.Y.

The Islanders have won three of their last four at home. The shutout was the seventh of Salo’s career.