Mathieu Garon made 23 saves to help the Edmonton Oilers beat Dallas 5-2 on Wednesday in the Stars' second NHL game without suspended agitator Sean Avery. Shawn Horcoff, Lubomir Visnovsky, Marc-Antoine Pouliot, Ales Hemsky and Andrew Cogliano scored for Edmonton. Mike Modano scored twice in third period for Dallas to push his record for NHL goals by a US-born player to 539. Rangers 3, Penguins 2, SO: At New York, Petr Prucha returned from exile to score his first goal of the season late in the third period as New York went on to beat Pittsburgh in a shootout. Prucha had been a healthy scratch for the previous 10 games and turned down the Rangers' request over the weekend to go down to the AHL on a conditioning assignment. Confident he was fit enough to play, New York coach Tom Renney put him in the lineup and was rewarded. Scott Gomez, who assisted on both Rangers goals, fired wide of the net but the rebound bounced off the end boards to Prucha for the putback at the right post that beat sprawling goalie Dany Sabourin with 5:57 left. Markus Naslund, Nikolai Zherdev and Fredrik Sjostrom had shootout goals for the Rangers, who allowed only defenseman Kris Letang to score in the tiebreaker. New York is 7-1 in the tiebreaker this season. Senators 5, Thrashers 1: At Ottawa, Dany Heatley had a goal and two assists, and Ottawa got first-period goals from each member of the Pizza Line. Heatley opened the scoring with his 13th goal 1:18 in, and set up goals by linemates Jason Spezza and Daniel Alfredsson later in the period. Brendan Bell added his first goal in six games with Ottawa in the second, and Alex Auld stopped 22 shots. Eric Boulton scored his first goal in 47 games for Atlanta. Wild 4, Blues 0: At St. Paul, Minnesota, Niklas Backstrom made 22 saves for his third shutout of the season and 12th in three seasons with Minnesota. Blackhawks 4, Ducks 2: At Chicago, Jonathan Toews broke a tie with 1:35 left in regulation for Chicago, beating Anaheim goalie Jonas Hiller from the edge of the crease after taking a backhand cross-crease pass from Kris Versteeg.
