Coyotes Get First Win, 5-2

Mike Gartner, Norm MacIver and Oleg Tverdovsky scored in the first period as the Phoenix Coyotes gained their first victory, 5-2, over the Bruins at Boston.

Gartner finished with a hat trick and Nikolai Khabibulin stopped 30 shots for the Coyotes, who were the Winnipeg Jets until this season. Phoenix lost its opener, 1-0, to Hartford on Saturday.

“We have a lot of new guys on the team and a new identity,” said Gartner, who had his 17th career hat trick to give the franchise its first victory over Boston since 1992. “I don’t think those past things carry over much.”

After Boston took a 1-0 lead on Jeff Odgers’ goal 2:16 into the game, Phoenix scored four consecutive goals with Keith Tkachuk getting three assists.

“I’m not really concerned about what they’ve done in the past,” Phoenix first-year Coach Don Hay said. “It’s what we do in the present and the future that concerns us.”

Philadelphia 3, New Jersey 1--Rod Brind’Amour tied the score with a short-handed goal early in the final period and assisted on the game-winner for the Flyers at Philadelphia.

Brind’Amour’s goal at 1:08 of the third came off a perfect pass from Joel Otto while Philadelphia was killing the end of a major penalty.

Karl Dykhuis then gave Philadelphia a 2-1 lead with a power-play goal with 9:59 remaining. Shjon Podein sealed the victory with a slap shot from 70 feet to give the Flyers their 700th victory at home and their first at the new CoreStates Center.

New Jersey captain Scott Stevens didn’t play. He was suspended by the league for one game and fined $1,000 because of a high-sticking incident Saturday against Detroit’s Igor Larionov.