Oct 9, 2005 3 min read

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) – John Grahame had 28 saves and Fredrik Modin ended Florida goalie Roberto Luongo’s season-opening shutout streak Saturday night in the Tampa Bay Lightning’s 2-1 victory over the Panthers. Luongo allowed his first goal of the season on Modin’s breakaway 55 seconds into the second period that gave Tampa Bay a 1-0 lead. Modin had just completed serving a minor penalty when he picked up a loose puck in the neutral zone and skated in on Luongo alone.

Luongo, who hadn’t allowed a goal in 148 minutes, 21 seconds dating back to the 2003-04 season, posted 2-0 shutouts over Atlanta and the Lightning in his two previous games this year.

Martin St. Louis put the Lightning ahead 2-0 during a five-on-three power play with 8:09 left in the third.

Florida got a power-play goal from Joe Nieuwendyk with 51.8 seconds to play.

Islanders 3, Hurricanes 2

UNIONDALE, N.Y. – Miroslav Satan finally scored his first goal in an Islanders jersey and Rick DiPietro made 42 saves, leading New York past Carolina.

It wasn’t the most glamorous of goals for Satan, who scored 259 before signing with the Islanders in the offseason. In fact, it was Carolina defenseman Oleg Tverdovsky who knocked it past goalie Cam Ward.

Jason Blake and Shawn Bates added goals for New York.

Eric Staal scored twice for Carolina, including a goal with 1:01 remaining that made it 3-2. He has four on the season and has scored in all three Hurricanes games.

Senators 5, Sabres 0

OTTAWA – Dominik Hasek stopped 35 shots for his 64th career shutout, and Wade Redden had a goal and two assists to lead the Senators over the Sabres.

Dany Heatley was credited with a pair of power-play goals, and Jason Spezza and Martin Havlat also scored for the Senators, who improved to 2-0-0 after recording the NHL’s first shootout victory Wednesday night with a season-opening 3-2 win in Toronto.

Making his Ottawa debut before a Corel Centre-record crowd of 19,661, Hasek registered his first shutout since Nov. 10, 2003, for Detroit to win his second straight start with the Senators.

Canadiens 5, Maple Leafs 4

TORONTO – Mike Ribeiro scored with 4:27 left to help the Canadiens beat the Maple Leafs for their third straight road victory of the season and first 3-0-0 start in 27 years.

Ribeiro, standing alone beside the net, tapped in a cross-ice pass from defenseman Andrei Markov for the winner.

Steve Begin, Sheldon Souray, Alexander Perezhogin and Niklas Sundstrom also scored for the Canadiens in only their third victory at the Air Canada Centre.

The Canadiens gave up a 3-2 lead in the third period on goals by Matt Stajan and Nik Antropov.

Alexander Steen scored his first NHL goal for Toronto, and Tie Domi also scored for the Maple Leafs.

Thrashers 8, Capitals 1

ATLANTA – Peter Bondra got the best of his former team for the second straight night, scoring two goals and adding an assist to help the Thrashers beat the Capitals.

The Thrashers put their home opener out of reach in the third period as Scott Mellanby, Serge Aubin, Marc Savard, Marian Hossa and Patrik Stefan each scored a goal. Savard finished with four assists. Aubin had two.

Jamie Heward scored Washington’s lone goal on a power-play with 55 seconds remaining in the first period that cut the lead to 2-1.

Atlanta defenseman Greg de Vries had made it 2-0 with a 58-foot wrister.