Anthony Stewart and Mike Van Ryn scored power-play goals, and Juraj Kolnik added a short-handed score Thursday to give the Florida Panthers a 3-2 victory over the Washington Capitals.
The Panthers entered the game with the 29th-ranked power play in the NHL. Their penalty killing had allowed three goals in each of the last two games, losses at the New York Rangers and New Jersey.
Rookie Alexander Ovechkin scored both goals for Washington. The top pick in the 2004 draft has a point in each of Washington's eight games, the longest scoring streak in the league.
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Kolnik and Van Ryn scored in the second period when the Panthers broke a 1-1 tie and set a franchise record with 28 shots. Florida outshot Washington 49-31 overall.
Islanders 5, Rangers 4
At Uniondale, New York, Mark Parrish scored twice and Arron Asham had a short-handed goal and an assist as the New York Islanders overcame Jaromir Jagr's first hat trick with the Rangers to sweep a home-and-home series.
Miroslav Satan and Jason Blake also scored for the Islanders, who beat the Rangers 3-2 in a shootout Wednesday at Madison Square Garden. Rick DiPietro stopped 26 shots in the rematch to give the Islanders their first winning streak of the season.
Jagr had his first three-goal game since Feb. 4, 2003, when he was with Washington. He leads the NHL with 10 goals and has a six-game point streak (8 goals, 2 assists).
Martin Rucinsky had the other goal for the Rangers, who got 16 saves from Kevin Weekes.
Sabres 4, Bruins 3
At Boston, J.P. Dumont deflected Teppo Numminen's shot into the net to break a third-period tie and Buffalo scored two power-play goals to beat Boston and snap an 0-for-27 slump.
Ryan Miller stopped 29 shots for the Sabres, and Ales Kotalik scored with 6:12 left to make it 4-2. Boston pulled within one just 25 seconds later on Sergei Samsonov's goal.
But the Bruins never came close to tying it, failing to mount a threat even after pulling goalie Hannu Toivonen in the final half-minute. Toivonen made 33 saves for the Bruins, and captain Joe Thornton returned after three games with a strained back. But Boston has lost both home games this season and is 0-5 in the Northeast Division.
Devils 6, Penguins 3
At Pittsburgh, Brian Gionta scored two goals for the second time in as many games against Pittsburgh this season, and New Jersey ran the Penguins' start-of-season winless streak to a franchise-record seven games.
Scott Gomez added a goal and assisted on Gionta's goals in a near-replay of the Devils' 5-1 win over Pittsburgh on opening night Oct. 5, Penguins rookie Sidney Crosby's long-awaited debut game. The only difference was Crosby, who got an assist that night, went scoreless for the first time in his seven-game NHL career in the rematch.
Mario Lemieux scored one of two Penguins goals during a 29-second span of the second period that briefly tied it at 2, but he drew a tripping penalty eight seconds after scoring to set up a 4-on-3 advantage for New Jersey.
Gionta has six goals in 13 career games against the Penguins, who lost their eighth in a row at home to New Jersey. The Devils have won 14 of 18 from Pittsburgh over the last four seasons.
Maple Leafs 5, Hurricanes 4, OT
At Toronto, Ken Klee scored a power-play goal 4:44 into overtime and Toronto edged Carolina to win its fourth straight game.
Eric Lindros scored his sixth goal for the Maple Leafs, undefeated since going winless in their first three games.
Erik Cole, Oleg Tverdovsky, Ron Brind'Amour and Cory Stillman scored for the Hurricanes, who tied it after trailing 4-2 in the third.
Darcy Tucker, Alexander Steen and Matt Stajan had the other goals for Toronto.
Predators 3, Blues 2, SO
At Nashville, Tennessee, Tomas Vokoun turned away both shots he faced in the shootout with St. Louis and Nashville won its sixth straight to open the season.
The Predators have won half of their games by shootout and own the NHL's best mark (6-0). Steve Sullivan and Marek Zidlicky both scored past St. Louis goalie Patrick Lalime in the new tiebreaker, and Vokoun turned away Petr Cajanek and Doug Weight as the Blues fell to 2-4-1.
Jeremy Stevenson scored his first goal of the season for the Predators at 3:00 of the third period to make it 2-2. Dan Hamhuis also scored for Nashville.
Dean McAmmond and Eric Brewer had St. Louis goals.
Flames 3, Oilers 1
At Calgary, Alberta, Chuck Kobasew scored two goals, including the winner, to lead Calgary over Edmonton.
Miikka Kiprusoff made 28 saves to record his second victory in six days over the Oilers. Edmonton has dropped five straight after starting the season with a three-game winning streak.
Edmonton took a 1-0 lead in the first period on Ethan Moreau's first goal of the season.
Kobasew then gave Calgary a two-goal lead late in the game.
Canucks 3, Coyotes 2
At Vancouver, British Columbia, Matt Cooke scored a disputed goal 4:21 into the third period to give Vancouver a victory over Phoenix.
After being stymied by goaltender Curtis Joseph all night, the Canucks broke a 2-2 tie by pushing him and the puck into the net. Joseph stopped Ed Jovanovski on a breakaway, but momentum carried both of them into the net while a charging Cooke knocked the puck in just as the net was dislodged.
Referee Michael McGeough waved the goal off emphatically, but the call was overturned after a lengthy video review.
Nolan Baumgartner and Jovanovski scored their first goals of the season -- both on the power play -- as Vancouver won its fourth straight.
Keith Ballard and Geoff Sanderson scored for the Coyotes. Joseph finished with 35 saves.
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