NHL - Friday’s other games

Hurricanes 7, Oilers 2

RALEIGH, N.C. — All-Star Eric Staal scored three goals, one on a penalty shot, and the Hurricanes routed Edmonton to snap its season-worst four-game losing streak. Rod Brind’Amour had a goal and two assists, Sergei Samsonov and Chad LaRose both had a goal and an assist and Tim Gleason also scored for Carolina, which broke it open with five third-period goals. Andrew Cogliano had a goal and an assist, and Patrick Thoresen scored for the Oilers, who lost their third straight and were skating in Raleigh for the first time since the Hurricanes beat them in Game 7 of the 2006 Stanley Cup finals.

Panthers 2, Devils 1

NEWARK, N.J. — Radek Dvorak and David Booth scored early in the third period to lift Florida. Backup goalie Craig Anderson made 31 saves and the Panthers ended a three-game losing streak and gave Jacques Martin his 500th coaching victory. Travis Zajac scored for the Devils, who had won their past six home games against the Panthers. Dvorak and Booth scored 1:17 apart in the third to give Florida the lead. Dvorak got the equalizer 2:28 in. Brett McLean unloaded a hard shot on Martin Brodeur who made a stick save. Dvorak pounced on the rebound for his first goal in 11 games. Ruslan Salei fired a shot that missed completely but bounced off the end boards right to Booth for a tiebreaking tap-in. Anderson secured the win down the stretch, denying Brian Gionta from the slot with 21⁄2 minutes remaining.

Ducks 4, Wild 2

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Todd Bertuzzi scored twice, Ryan Getzlaf had three assists, and Anaheim’s streaking top line lifted the Ducks. Corey Perry scored his 26th goal, and the Ducks won their season-high seventh straight game after surviving a second-period surge by the Wild. Since luring defenseman Scott Niedermayer out of semiretirement and trading for veteran center Doug Weight, Anaheim is 12-2-2. Chris Pronger also scored for the Ducks, who led 3-0 until Minnesota’s Nick Schultz and Mikko Koivu scored 14 seconds apart in the second period. But the Bertuzzi-Getzlaf-Perry line has been unstoppable lately. Bertuzzi worked his way in the slot and, on an assist from Perry, scored midway through the third. Getzlaf has at least one point in a career-high 13 straight games. Perry, whom Getzlaf argued should have joined him on the All-Star team, and Bertuzzi have a point in six consecutive games.

Sabres 10, Thrashers 1

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Drew Stafford and Derek Roy had hat tricks and the Sabres routed the Thrashers to end a 10-game winless skid. Thomas Vanek, Jochen Hecht and Ales Kotalik each had a goal and two assists for the Sabres, who got off to a fast start with four goals in the first period. Stafford added two assists for a career-high five points. Colin Stuart scored for Atlanta, which was playing 24 hours after losing in a shootout to Montreal. The loss, coupled with Carolina’s win over Edmonton on Friday, dropped the Thrashers out of first place in the Southeast Division. Buffalo came within two games of tying a franchise-record 12-game winless stretch set in 1991 and matched in 2002.

Associated Press