Michael Ryder struck for the second straight night, wristing a shot off goaltender Kevin Weekes 2:10 into overtime that gave the Montreal Canadiens a 4-3 victory over the New York Rangers on Thursday.

Ryder, who had Montreal's first goal of the game, scored the game-winner Wednesday with 11 seconds remaining in the Canadiens' season-opening 2-1 victory at Boston.

Alexander Perezhogin had given the Canadiens a 3-2 lead in the second period before Dominic Moore tied it with 2:36 left in regulation. Chris Higgins also scored for Montreal.

At St. Louis, Robert Lang had a goal and an assist, and Jason Williams had three assists to lead Detroit to a season-opening home-and-home sweep of the Blues.

Detroit, which beat the Blues 5-1 at home Wednesday night, could not have asked for a better opponent to open the season. Since 2002-03, Detroit is 11-1-1 against St. Louis.

The victory wasn't assured until the final seconds as the Blues, with the goalie pulled for an extra attacker, got off several shots in a goal-mouth scramble. St. Louis outshot Detroit 11-4 in the final period.

Doug Weight had a goal and an assist for St. Louis, while defenseman Andy Roach scored his first career goal and Dean McAmmond got his first goal as a Blue.

At Los Angeles, Alexander Frolov scored the go-ahead goal on a power play in the second period, giving Los Angeles Kings a victory over Phoenix that kept Wayne Gretzky winless as an NHL coach.

The Coyotes had a man advantage for most of the final minute, but didn't score, dropping Gretzky's record to 0-2. Phoenix lost 3-2 at Vancouver on Wednesday.

Sundin to miss four to six weeks: Toronto captain Mats Sundin could miss four to six weeks after breaking the lower orbital bone when he was hit in the face by a puck in the season opener, the Maple Leafs announced Thursday.

Sundin, who was not at practice Thursday, has an unfortunate track record with face injuries, suffering both cuts and dental damage in past incidents.

''Nobody envisions that serious things [will] happen to themselves and when they happen, everybody responds differently,'' said Toronto coach Pat Quinn.

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