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Hurricanes 2, Senators 1

RALEIGH, N.C. — Joe Corvo scored with 2:40 left to help Peter Laviolette become the winningest American-born coach in NHL history. Fellow defenseman Dennis Seidenberg also scored and Corvo added an assist for the Hurricanes, who trailed 1-0 after two periods but scored twice in the final 9 minutes. Mike Fisher scored for the Senators. Michael Leighton made 22 saves in his second straight start on home ice to help Laviolette surpass former Tampa Bay coach John Tortorella with his 240th career victory. Corvo took advantage of an Ottawa turnover in its own zone to score the go-ahead goal. Sergei Samsonov kept the puck in the zone, Tim Gleason’s slap shot was stopped by Martin Gerber and the puck made its way to Corvo, who beat the Senators goalie with a snap shot from the right circle. That came about six minutes after Seidenberg started Carolina’s comeback with a power-play goal with 8:54 left. He beat Gerber with a slap shot from just inside the blue line for the first power-play goal allowed by the Senators in four games. Former Penguin Jarkko Ruutu appeared to have tied it with 1:49 left when his slap shot from the blue line got past Leighton, but the goal was waved off because he was offsides. Gerber — who set the Hurricanes’ single-season records with 38 victories and a .707 winning percentage in 2005-06, his only season with them — stopped 28 shots in his return to the Senators’ lineup after missing six games with a leg injury. Fisher put Ottawa up 1-0 in the final moments of the second period after Gleason couldn’t make a play on the puck near the blue line. Ottawa’s Daniel Alfredsson gathered the puck, skated down the right side and wristed a shot into Leighton’s pads, and Fisher zipped in from the left side to poke the rebound past the goalie’s right pad with 1:52 left.

Thrashers 5, Sabres 4, OT

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Jason Williams scored his second goal of the game 48 seconds into overtime, and Bryan Little had two goals and an assist for Atlanta. On a power play, Williams lifted a rebound off a shot from Ilya Kovalchuk over goalie Ryan Miller to give the Thrashers their third straight victory. Todd White also scored for the Thrashers, who last won three straight in February. Atlanta (5-7-2) won for the first time in seven road games this season. Slava Kozlov extended his points streak to five games with three assists for the Thrashers. Thomas Vanek scored his NHL-leading 12th goal, and Clarke MacArthur, Ales Kotalik and Maxim Afinogenov also scored for the Sabres.

Associated Press