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OTTAWA - It was only a matter of time before Russian sniper Nikita Filatov started filling the net at the world junior hockey championship.

Scoring summaries from Saturday’s NHL games:Canadiens 3 at Penguins 2First Period1. Montreal, A.Kostitsyn 7 (Plekanec, Gorges) 1:152. Pittsburgh, Dupuis 8 (Whitney, Crosby) 14:443.

CALGARY – Rene Bourque scored his first career NHL hat trick Saturday night leading the Calgary Flames to a 6-3 victory over the Ottawa Senators.

DENVER – Peter Budaj stopped all three shots in the shootout, and Wojtek Wolski scored the lone goal in the tiebreaker, lifting the Colorado Avalanche to a 4-3 victory over the Detroit Red Wings on Saturday night.

GLENDALE, Ariz. – Jonathan Quick’s formula for success is simple.”I just stop the puck,” said Quick, who made 30 saves for his second shutout in three games in the Los Angeles Kings’ 4-0 victory over the Phoenix Coyotes on Saturday night.

ST. LOUIS – Shrugging off their latest misfortune, the St. Louis Blues beat the NHL-leading San Jose Sharks. One of their many fill-ins played a key role.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. – John Vigilante scored two goals as the Syracuse Crunch rallied to beat the Hamilton Bulldogs 5-4 on Saturday night in American Hockey League action.

DALLAS – Even after scoring hundreds of goals and being the face of the Dallas Stars for more than a decade, 38-year-old Mike Modano still amazes his younger teammates.

Don Parsons, a forward with the Bloomington PrairieThunder of the IHL, netted his 678th career goal to become the all-time minor league goal-scoring leader Saturday night.

OTTAWA – This was a first for Slovakia’s Jaroslav Janus.

In a 7-2 win over Latvia in the world junior hockey championship on Saturday, Janus faced only 17 shots but not a single one of those came in the second period.

TAMPA, Fla. – Vincent Lecavalier scored twice, and Martin St. Louis had a goal and three assists to help the Tampa Bay Lightning win their third straight game, 6-4 over the Florida Panthers on Saturday night.

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Ales Kotalik and Drew Stafford scored shootout goals, and Ryan Miller stopped both of New York’s attempts in the Buffalo Sabres’ 4-3 victory over the New York Islanders on Saturday night.

TORONTO – Goalie James Reimer won his American Hockey League debut and Jiri Tlusty scored in the shootout to lead the Toronto Marlies over the visiting Manitoba Moose 3-2 in AHL action on Saturday night.

NEW YORK – Travis Zajac had a goal and two assists for the New Jersey Devils, who broke out of a team-record scoreless drought and beat the New York Rangers 4-2 Saturday night.

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Rookie Steve Mason made 20 saves for his third shutout in Columbus’ 3-0 victory over Philadelphia on Saturday night, the Blue Jackets’ first win over the Flyers in franchise history.

RALEIGH, N.C. – Blake Wheeler scored twice in the second period, and Michael Ryder broke a tie with 6:14 left to help the Boston Bruins win their seventh straight game, 4-2 over the Carolina Hurricanes on Saturday night.

PITTSBURGH – Andrei Kostitsyn had his first career hat trick, leading the Montreal Canadiens to a 3-2 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday night.

ST. LOUIS – St. Louis Blues forward Paul Kariya will have surgery on his left hip and could miss the rest of the season.Kariya hasn’t played since Nov.

NEW YORK – Rangers defenceman Michal Rozsival sat out Saturday night against the New Jersey Devils due to family issues, but is expected to return for New York’s next game.

BUFFALO, N.Y. – The New York Islanders recalled centre Jeremy Colliton from Bridgeport of the AHL on Saturday, a day after left wing Andy Hilbert sustained a hairline fracture in his left foot in a victory over Toronto.