OTTAWA, March 25 (UPI) -- Alex Tanguay scored with 11 seconds remaining in the third period Tuesday night to lift the Colorado Avalanche into a 2-2 tie with the league-leading Ottawa Senators.
After a subpar 2001-02 season and a slow start to this one, Tanguay was placed on a line centered by Hart Trophy candidate Peter Forsberg and has amassed 54 points in his last 46 games. Along the way, he compiled an NHL-best 16-game points streak.
With goaltender Patrick Roy pulled for an extra attacker, Forsberg took a feed from captain Joe Sakic behind the net and lifted a pass over a defenseman's stick to Tanguay, who put the puck past Patrick Lalime from the doorstep to tie it.
Ottawa had taken the lead, thanks to Vaclav Varada. After drawing the penalty that put the Senators on the power play, Varada redirected defenseman Zdeno Chara's slap shot from the blue line just inside the left goalpost with 54 seconds left in the third to break a 1-1 tie.
Martin Havlat also tallied for Ottawa, which extended its unbeaten streak to four games.
Defenseman Rob Blake scored his second goal in three games and Roy turned aside 37 shots for the Avalanche, who moved two points ahead of fifth-place St. Louis for home-ice advantage in the first round of the NHL Western Conference playoffs.
