MILWAUKEE — Mo Williams had 20 points and 12 assists, and the MilwaukeeBucks beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 106-97 in a preseason game on Saturdaynight.

Michael Redd added 18 points, Andrew Bogut and rookie forward Yi Jianlianeach had 15 and Bobby Simmons 10 in what could be a preview of Milwaukee’sstarting lineup.

Yi, the sixth overall selection in the 2007 NBA draft, had his best game sofar. In 28 minutes, he was 6-of-9 from the floor and grabbed 12 rebounds in histhird start for the Bucks (3-2).

Rookie forward Corey Brewer led Minnesota (2-4) with 27 points, Al Jeffersonadded 21, and Marko Jaric 14.

Brewer, taken one pick after Yi, made his second start for the Timberwolves.He shot 10-of-15 and had six assists in his best preseason outing.

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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Carlos Brown ran for 113 yards filling in for Mike Hartand Mario Manningham scored two touchdowns to give No. 24 Michigan a 27-17 winover Illinois.

Hart, the nation’s leading rusher with 152 yards a game, watched from thesideline in street clothes after hurting an ankle last weekend in a win overPurdue.

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SEATTLE — Jonathan Stewart can handle the entire rushing load for Oregonjust fine.

Still, he didn’t mind a little help from Andre Crenshaw and Dennis Dixon.

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ST. LOUIS — Eric Belanger had a goal and an assist, Josh Harding made 33saves and the Minnesota Wild remained the NHL’s only unbeaten team by beatingthe St. Louis Blues 3-1 on Saturday night.

Brent Burns and Pavol Demitra also scored and Pierre-Marc Bouchard had twoassists for the Wild (6-0-1), who have won six of their first seven despite notscoring more than three goals in any game. The only blemish was a shootout lossin Los Angeles on Tuesday.

Steve Wagner scored his first NHL goal for the only tally for St. Louis,which had its four-game winning streak snapped. Martin Rucinsky also had amilestone on that goal, picking up an assist for his 600th career point.

Manny Legace made 31 saves for the Blues.

Minnesota came into the game ranked 29th in the NHL with one goal in 22power-play attempts. But the Wild converted twice with a man advantage and thatwas the difference.

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DALLAS — Mike Ribeiro and Jere Lehtinen each had a goal and an assist tohelp the Dallas Stars beat the Anaheim Ducks 3-1 on Saturday night.

Brenden Morrow added a goal, and Marty Turco made 20 saves as Dallasimproved to 3-0-1 at home.

Chris Pronger scored a power-play goal for the defending Stanley Cupchampion Ducks, winless on the road (0-4-1).

The Stars had been getting off to slow starts, but they reversed that trendwith Morrow’s power-play goal at 2:05 of the opening period. Morrow notched hisfourth of the season from the slot off a centering pass by Ribeiro.

Ribeiro made it 2-0 at 7:48 of the second period, jamming a loose puck pastgoaltender Jean-Sebastien Giguere while the Stars had an extra attacker becauseof a delayed penalty on the Ducks.

Lehtinen extended the lead to 3-0 at 10:01 of the second period with hisfirst goal of the season, and at that point, Anaheim coach Randy Carlylereplaced Giguere with Ilya Bryzgalov. Dallas’ Philippe Boucher dumped the puckinto the Anaheim zone and it bounced hard off the end boards and onto the stickof Lehtinen, who fired a shot past Giguere from the inner part of the rightcircle.

Pronger got Anaheim on the board with his first goal of the season at 18:24of the second period while the Ducks held a two-man advantage.

Notes

Stars C Mike Modano remains four points short of matching PhilHousley’s points record of 1,232 for U.S.-born players. Modano has only twopoints in eight games this season. …The Ducks were without injured RW ToddBertuzzi (concussion) and D Mathieu Schneider (ankle). C Todd Marchant was backin the Anaheim lineup after missing two games due to an ankle injury. …Dallasbegan a stretch of 10 of its next 11 games against Pacific Division competition….The Ducks assigned C Petteri Wirtanen to Portland of the AHL. Wirtanen madehis NHL debut on Oct. 17, scoring his first career goal against Nashville. …Turco played in his 325th game for the Stars, tying Jon Casey for third amonggoaltenders in franchise history. Cesare Maniago is the leader with 420 games.

UNIONDALE, N.Y. — Bill Guerin’s power-play goal with 3.7 seconds left inovertime gave the Islanders a 4-3 victory over the New Jersey Devils after NewYork squandered a two-goal lead in the third period Saturday night.

The Islanders captain got to a loose puck in front after it kicked aroundfollowing a shot by Mike Comrie. He smacked it past backup goalie Kevin Weekes,subbing for a rarely rested Martin Brodeur.

Guerin, the fifth overall pick by the Devils in the 1989 draft, scored forthe fourth time in two games for the Islanders, who made him their captainshortly after he signed this summer.

His hat trick Thursday at Washington helped New York snap a two-game losingstreak.

Guerin’s latest goal salvaged this win that seemed secure until the Devilsstaged a third-period rally to wipe out New York’s 3-1 lead.

Josef Vasicek started a three-goal Islanders run in the second period, andMiroslav Satan added his first of the season in the spurt that was capped byMike Comrie’s power-play tally.

Zach Parise scored in the first period and Jay Pandolfo and Brian Gionta gotthe Devils even in the third but New Jersey lost its third in five games.

PHILADELPHIA — Simon Gagne scored his second goal of the game 48 secondsinto overtime and the Philadelphia Flyers won their fifth straight game, 3-2over the Carolina Hurricanes on Saturday night.

Mike Richards also scored for the Flyers, who won their fourth straight athome. The Flyers had not won five straight games since Dec. 22-29, 2005.

Jason Willliams and Eric Staal scored for the Hurricanes, who had theirthree-game winning streak snapped by Pittsburgh on Friday night.

Gagne stopped a pass from Derian Hatcher with his skate, then snapped thegame-winner into the net. It was his 400th career point.

WASHINGTON — Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins got the better ofAlex Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals, just like they always do.

Crosby set up the go-ahead goal on a power play, Ovechkin was held without apoint for the first time this season, and Pittsburgh beat Washington 2-1Saturday night.

The Penguins won for the second night in a row; the Capitals have droppedfour consecutive games after opening the season 3-0.

It was the ninth NHL meeting between two of the league’s young superstars,and the Penguins have won eight. Part of the reason for the success? Ovechkin — who edged Crosby for top rookie honors in 2005-06 — has no goals or assists inthree of the past four games between the teams.

Players and coaches from both sides can talk all they want about how thesecontests are about much more than Sid the Kid and Alexander the Great — a coupleof forwards who both reached 200 points faster than any other active NHLers — but it was clear who the spectators came to see.

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MONTREAL — Chris Higgins scored on a two-man advantage 12:38 into the thirdand added an empty net goal to lift the Montreal Canadiens to a 4-2 win over theBuffalo Sabres on Saturday night.

Higgins flicked a backhand towards the net that bounced off goalie RyanMiller’s right arm and into the net with Montreal enjoying a 5-on-3. He scoredagain into an empty net with 24.9 seconds remaining to seal the win.

Bryan Smolinski and Kyle Chipchura also had goals for the Canadiens, whoended a three-game losing streak (0-2-1), including a 4-3 loss in Ottawa onThursday.

Paul Gaustad and Derek Roy scored goals nine seconds apart for Buffalo,which lost its second in a row to begin a five-game road trip.

Miller made 23 saves, one night after stopping 26 shots in a 3-0 loss toColumbus.

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TORONTO — The Chicago Blackhawks scored five goals in the third period torally past the Toronto Maple Leafs 6-4 on Saturday night.

Jason Williams, Andrei Zyuzin, Duncan Keith, Robert Lang, Patrick Sharp andTuomo Ruutu, with an empty-netter with 25 seconds left, scored for theBlackhawks.

Mats Sundin scored twice and Tomas Kaberle and Chad Kilger once each for theLeafs.

Trailing 3-1 at the start of the final period, Chicago rallied, scoring twogoals in 30 seconds.

Zyuzin, gliding into the middle of Toronto’s end during a power play,redirected a Patrick Kane pass through Raycroft’s legs at 1:04.

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