Feb 18, 2013 4 min read

NEWARK, N.J. – Jakob Silfverberg beat Martin Brodeur to his stick side in the shootout and goalie Ben Bishop turned aside 30 shots for his first victory of the season, giving the Ottawa Senators a 2-1 victory over the New Jersey Devils Monday.

Silfverberg, who also had an assist on the Senators’ regulation goal, skated in on Brodeur in the shootout and fired a right-handed wrist shot which caught the NHL’s all-time wins leader by surprise. When Bishop stopped former Senator Bobby Butler on the Devils’ third shootout attempt, Ottawa (8-6-2) had its third road win of the season.

Stephen Gionta scored his second goal of the season in the opening minutes of the game and Brodeur made 29 saves for New Jersey.

Daniel Alfredsson scored in the third period for Ottawa.

Philadelphia 7, New York Islanders 0: The line of Claude Giroux, Matt Read and Jakub Voracek combined for three goals and 10 points Monday, helping the Philadelphia Flyers break a slump with a 7-0 matinee victory over the New York Islanders.

Giroux scored two goals and added an assist, Read had a goal and two assists and Voracek had four assists. Ilya Bryzgalov was solid in making 19 saves for his first shutout of the season and 30th in the NHL.

Zac Rinaldo scored his first goal of the season, and third of his NHL career, when he scored into a vacated net to make it 5-0 at 3:31 of the third. Danny Briere closed by scoring twice in the third period.

New York couldn’t sustain its momentum generated by wins over the rival Rangers and Devils in its previous two games following a five-game losing streak. While the Flyers will soon be heading home, the Islanders will begin a three-game trip at Ottawa today.

Toronto 3, Florida 0: Ben Scrivens notched his second consecutive shutout, and Clarke MacArthur and Nazem Kadri each had a goal and an assist to lead the Toronto Maple Leafs to a 3-0 win over the Florida Panthers on Monday night.

Scrivens, who got his first career shutout last Saturday in a 3-0 victory over Ottawa, stopped 37 shots.

Phil Kessel also scored for the Maple Leafs, who won for the sixth time in seven games. Toronto is off to its best road start since opening 7-2-0 away from home during the 1940-41 season. The Leafs beat the Panthers for the first time in seven games dating to a 4-3 shootout win Feb. 1, 2011.

Jose Theodore made 29 saves for Florida, which lost its fifth straight and sixth in the past seven at home.

Montreal 3, Carolina 0: Tomas Plekanec and Max Pacioretty scored 18 seconds apart in the third period to seal the Montreal Canadiens’ fourth straight win, a 3-0 victory over the Carolina Hurricanes Monday night.

Pacioretty added an assist and Brandon Prust also scored for Montreal in the third.

Peter Budaj made 19 saves for his second win of the season and his first shutout in a Canadiens uniform.

Cam Ward stopped 23 shots for Carolina, which saw its three-game winning streak snapped.

Colorado 6, Nashville 5: Paul Stastny and Jamie McGinn scored goals 13 seconds apart and the Colorado Avalanche snapped a nine-game losing streak to Nashville with a 6-5 win over the Predators in a Monday matinee.

The Predators pulled their goalie and Shea Weber scored with 1:18 left to make it a one-goal game, the only score of the final period.

Matt Duchene had a goal and two assists in helping the Avalanche to a rare win over the Predators, who had outscored Colorado 34-14 while sweeping the season series each of the past two years.

The Predators had pulled to 4-3 on Colin Wilson’s goal before the double-whammy by Stastny and McGinn restored Colorado’s cushion and forced Nashville coach Barry Trotz to summon Pekka Rinne, who is 6-1-1 in his past eight starts, to the net with 6 minutes left in the second period.