Fuhr Stops 27 to Lead Blues to 3-0 Victory

Grant Fuhr stopped 27 shots Thursday night to lead the St. Louis Blues to a 3-0 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning at St. Louis and earn his 25th shutout.

“It’s nice,” Fuhr said of the milestone. “There are still a couple of other milestones I want to reach. I think I need six more wins to get to 400 and I want to get there. Depending on how the body feels, I may get to 1,000 games. So there’s still a couple things down the road I want to get.”

What he wanted most on Thursday was a victory, and he got it for the Blues, who were outshot, 27-24.

“It was nice to see Grant play well and get the shutout and get us the win,” St. Louis Coach Joel Quenneville said. “This was one of those games where you look over the season you hope your goaltender can steal you a game. Tonight, he got it for us.”

Scott Pellerin also contributed, scoring twice.

Boston 3, Montreal 2--Anson Carter had a goal and two assists at Montreal as the Bruins improved their playoff position.

Carter crashed the net on a rush and tipped in Steve Heinze’s pass for his career-high 17th goal to break a 2-2 tie 8:48 into the final period.

The Bruins, who hold the eighth and final Eastern Conference playoff position with eight games left to play, moved seven points ahead of the Florida Panthers and the New York Rangers and within two points of the seventh-place Buffalo Sabres.

Washington 5, Florida 3--Richard Zednik raced down the right flank to score the go-ahead goal with 10:10 to play at Washington.

Pittsburgh 3, Ottawa 3--Jaromir Jagr scored twice and added an assist in the third period as the Penguins erased a three-goal deficit at Kanata, Canada.

Philadelphia 2, Nashville 1--Rod Brind’Amour scored the winning goal in the second period and Mikael Reneberg, who has eight points in seven games, had a goal and an assist at Nashville, Tenn.

Phoenix 4, Calgary 1--Greg Adams and Rick Tocchet scored 33 seconds apart in the first period and Nikolai Khabibulin made 33 saves at Calgary.

Toronto 5, Edmonton 1--Sergei Berezin scored two of his three goals in the first period at Edmonton.

Around the League

Forward Shayne Corson of the Montreal Canadiens was suspended six games by the NHL for high-sticking and chasing Ed Jovanovski of the Vancouver Canucks into the locker room during Saturday’s 5-1 loss at Vancouver. Corson was given a match penalty and ejected for striking Jovanovski on the side of the head with his stick at 12:39 of the third period. He then pursued Jovanovski, who was also penalized, into Vancouver’s locker room in spite of warnings from the league’s security representative on duty at GM Place. “The NHL has never tolerated, and will never tolerate, inappropriate off-ice conduct such as this,” NHL senior vice president Colin Campbell said in a statement. . . . Jim Campbell of the St. Louis Blues will be sidelined for the rest of the season because of a groin injury that will require surgery.