Stefan Noesen, Andrei Svechnikov and Teuvo Teravainen scored on power plays and Antti Raanta’s 19 saves produced a shutout as the Carolina Hurricanes beat the Florida Panthers 4-0 on Friday night in Raleigh, N.C.

The Hurricanes broke a franchise record by winning their 10th game in a row. Their 16-game point streak increased a franchise-best mark.

Raanta has recorded shutouts in consecutive games.

The first three Carolina goals came on power plays before Jesperi Kotkaniemi scored a third-period goal. Brent Burns and Seth Jarvis each assisted on two goals.

It was the first time this season that Carolina produced three goals on power plays. The Hurricanes had a total of two power-play goals in the previous five games combined.

Panthers goalie Spencer Knight stopped 30 shots.

A night after compiling a season-high goals total in a 7-2 whipping of the Montreal Canadiens, the Panthers were shut out for the first time this season. They went 0-for-6 on power plays.

Carolina’s production on power plays came out of nowhere as the Hurricanes began the day ranked 27th in the NHL in power-play efficiency.

Knight was in just his second game since Dec. 6, though his 40-save shutout of the Hurricanes came Nov. 9 at home.

In the first period, Sebastian Aho’s shot slammed off Knight. Noesen was there to bat in the rebound a the 7:05 mark.

The assist for Aho marked his first point in three games since returning to the lineup from a seven-game injury absence.

Carolina built a 12-3 advantage in shots on goal through the first period.

Svechnikov’s goal came at 4:58 of the second period, giving him a team-high 19 goals this season.

Teravainen converted at 11:55 of the second period for his third goal of the season.

Three Staal brothers competed in the game. Ex-Carolina standout Eric Staal and Marc Staal played for the Panthers, while Hurricanes captain Jordan Staal was on the opposite team. It was the second time this season that the trio all played in the same game and 12th time in their career.

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Nico Hischier’s shorthanded goal in the second period stood as the winner Friday as the New Jersey Devils ended a two-game losing streak with a 4-2 win over the host Pittsburgh Penguins.

Jack Hughes added two goals and Dougie Hamilton a goal and an assist for the Devils, who are 2-7-1 in their past 10 games.

New Jersey goaltender Vitek Vanecek made 25 saves.

Evgeni Malkin and Jeff Carter scored for the Penguins, who have lost four in a row (0-2-2).

Pittsburgh goaltender Tristan Jarry made 24 saves.

The Penguins played without top defenseman Kris Letang, who has a lower-body injury.

Malkin, near the blue line in his own end, stole the puck from Hamilton for a breakaway and sent a shot over Vanecek’s glove to make it 1-0 at 14:26 of the first.

That moved Malkin past Sergei Fedorov into second all-time among Russian-born NHL players with 1,180 points.

At 3:21 of the second, Hamilton’s shot from the right circle went in, but it was immediately waved off as no goal because of goaltender interference, with New Jersey’s Erik Haula in the crease. The Devils unsuccessfully challenged the call.

New Jersey tied it with a goal that stood at 6:18 of the second. On a power play, Hughes lofted a shot from the left dot that went off Jarry’s right shoulder and under the crossbar. Hamilton picked up an assist for his 400th career point.

Carter gave the Penguins a 2-1 lead at 12:30 of the second. P.O Joseph got around Devils defenseman Jonas Siegenthaler — who was temporarily limited just after blocking a shot — and dished to Carter, who slipped the puck toward the top of the crease, where it bounced in.

New Jersey tied it again at 17:37 of the second. Hamilton, from the inner edge of the right circle, scored short side.

Hischier gave the Devils their first lead, 3-2, with a shorthanded goal with 37.1 seconds left in the second. From the right point, he got past Malkin for a clear path to the net and scored far side.

Hughes added an empty-netter with 4.1 seconds left in regulation.

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The Vancouver Canucks have an outstanding division record, and that should provide a boost of confidence when they hit the ice on Saturday for a road clash against the Calgary Flames.

Heading into the New Year’s Eve nightcap, the Canucks have a 10-2-0 mark against Pacific Division foes. It is an impressive achievement for a Vancouver team with a 16-16-3 record that will be at least a half-dozen points outside of a playoff spot at puck drop.

The Canucks need that positive energy after their three-game winning streak was snapped in a disappointing 4-2 loss to the Winnipeg Jets on Thursday. the result also ended Vancouver’s seven-game road winning streak.

Oddly enough for a team that has struggled to keep pucks out of the net, the issue according to coach Bruce Boudreau was that his squad lacked offensive push.

“We started to focus a little too much on defense and not on offense at all,” Boudreau said.

The Canucks have a couple of other aspects in their favor heading into the Flames game. Vancouver took the first meeting of the season, a 4-3 shootout win in Calgary on Dec. 14.

Plus, the Canucks have produced a strong offensive attack of late, led by captain Bo Horvat and his 26 goals, while Elias Pettersson, who leads the Canucks with 43 points, has a four-game streak in which he has collected three goals and six assists.

They can top it off with renewed motivation.

“As the (Jets) game got going on, they elevated and we didn’t. We weren’t able to match it,” Vancouver forward Curtis Lazar said. “The urgency throughout the game just wasn’t there.”

Speaking of divisional success, the Flames (who are 7-3-2 in division games) are coming off a 3-2 road victory over the Seattle Kraken on Wednesday. Calgary is on a 4-1-1 run in its past six outings, all against Pacific Division teams.

“We needed the two points,” Flames forward Andrew Mangiapane said of beating Seattle. “Everybody came out really strong and we worked well as a team. That’s how we need to play. We need to come out and win those close games.”

Calgary has fallen short of expectations so far this season, but the Flames — who have a 7-3-4 record in their past 14 games — see plenty of positives from the past few weeks.

“We had a good road trip before Christmas, and I think we can’t look back,” Flames left winger Jonathan Huberdeau said. “We just gotta play better, play well defensively that’s the strength usually of our team and that’s how we are going to win. We have a lot of older guys on the team, a mature team and that’s gotta show too on the ice.”

The Flames saw another bright light in the Seattle win. Huberdeau struggled with his new team in the first couple of months but is finding his form. A notorious pass-first player, Huberdeau scored the game-winning goal in Seattle and now has collected seven points (two goals, five assists) in the past six games.

“Its going to come, shooting more. It’s been better the past few games and I got to build on that,” said Huberdeau, who was roundly criticized for passing up scoring chances a couple of weeks ago. “When you get a lot of chances, you are going to get some shots. … I gotta obviously keep it more simple, get some more shots and the confidence will come, too.”

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The Dallas Stars aim to extend their winning streak to a season-high four games and slow down red-hot defenseman Erik Karlsson on Saturday when they host the San Jose Sharks.

The Stars won three straight games to start the season and again from Nov. 1-5 before matching that total following a 4-1 victory over the Minnesota Wild on Thursday.

“We’re happy, but we’re never satisfied,” said Tyler Seguin, who scored twice to help Dallas improve to 6-1-1 in its last eight games.

“Once you get past Thanksgiving, it’s all about keep climbing. With our schedule right now, we’ve got to get all the points we can.”

Rookie Wyatt Johnston scored the go-ahead goal in the third period. The 19-year-old has collected four goals and an assist in his past five games.

“I think for me personally, just getting more comfortable, getting kind of more used to the game, just building chemistry with my linemates, I think that’s a really big thing,” Johnston said. “I think the past few games we’ve been improving every game, just kind of learning off of each other. Obviously, I’m playing with two really good players right now (captain Jamie Benn, Mason Marchment), so that makes it a lot easier.”

Speaking of Benn, he also scored on Thursday to extend his point streak to seven games (four goals, four assists). Benn also had two goals in Dallas’ 5-4 setback to San Jose on Nov. 11.

Jason Robertson had an assist on Thursday to extend his point streak to six games (one goal, eight assists). He had two assists in the previous encounter versus the Sharks. Robertson leads the team in goals (24), assists (28) and points (52).

Jake Oettinger made 23 saves on Thursday to improve to 8-3-0 with a 2.21 goals-against average and .924 save percentage this month.

“We were, I think, definitely the better team (Thursday), and we deserved to win that game,” Oettinger said. “Great road effort by our team. … They didn’t ask me to do anything special.”

Oettinger, however, was blitzed for five goals on just 18 shots in the first encounter with San Jose.

While the Stars are ascending, the Sharks have plummeted with five losses in their last six games (1-3-2). On Thursday, San Jose let a two-goal lead in the third period go by the boards in a 4-3 overtime setback to the Philadelphia Flyers.

“That’s something that good teams are really good at and teams that don’t win that much are not,” Karlsson said. “It’s something we have to get better at.”

Karlsson notched two assists to extend his point streak to 11 games (two goals, 16 assists), one shy of the franchise record shared by Rob Gaudreau (1992-93) and Jonathan Cheechoo (2005-06).

Karlsson also reached the 50-point plateau in just 37 games, the fastest mark for a blueliner since Hall of Famer Al MacInnis accomplished the feat in 35 games for the Calgary Flames in 1990-91.

Tomas Hertl collected two goals and an assist on Thursday. He had one of each in the previous encounter versus Dallas.

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Filip Forsberg had a goal and two assists for the visiting Nashville Predators in a 6-1 win against the Anaheim Ducks on Friday.

Colton Sissons had a goal and an assist and Juuso Parssinen had two assists for the Predators, who snapped a two-game skid and are 3-1-1 in their past five games after a six-game losing streak (0-4-2). Juuse Saros made 26 saves.

Sam Carrick scored and John Gibson made 37 saves for the Ducks, who have lost four of their past five (1-3-1).

Sissons opened the scoring at 8:06 of the first period. Forsberg intercepted Anaheim defenseman Urho Vaakanainen’s rim around the boards at the left wall and quickly fed Sissons, who snapped it top shelf on the far side from the left circle to give the Predators a 1-0 lead.

Carrick deflected Vaakanainen’s point shot from in front to tie it 1-1 at 2:20 of the second period.

Yakov Trenin put the Predators ahead 2-1 at 9:04. After collecting a loose puck off a faceoff in the left circle for a shot that was stopped by Gibson, Trenin scooted to the inner hashmark of the right circle to pick up the rebound and backhand it in far side.

Forsberg, playing his 600th NHL game, pushed it to 3-1 at 13:20. Gibson made the save on a Sissons shot from the left circle but the rebound popped out to the other side, where Parssinen got a piece of it before Forsberg pushed home the bouncing puck.

Cole Smith sent a backhand feed from behind the net to Thomas Novak wide open in the slot to extend it to 4-1 at 10:44 of the third period.

Roman Josi scored on a point shot through traffic on the power play to make it 5-1 at 15:43 and Nino Niederreiter made it 6-1 from in front with 13 seconds left.

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When the Colorado Avalanche play at home, there’s a good chance the game will need more than 60 minutes.

The last three games at Ball Arena have gone to overtime, with two going to a shootout. Colorado is 2-0-1 in those games after a 5-4 shootout loss to Los Angeles on Thursday night. Now the Avalanche will end 2022 by hosting the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday night in Denver.

Toronto is coming off a 6-3 loss at Arizona on Thursday night, one of two setbacks the Maple Leafs suffered in two days. On Wednesday, the NHL fined Toronto $100,000 for a holiday travel violation.

The league has a designated annual holiday break from Dec. 24-26 and the Maple Leafs flew out of Toronto late Monday night for Tuesday’s game against the St. Louis Blues.

The loss to the Coyotes was rare for Toronto, which has been on a tear since losing four in a row at the end of October. The Maple Leafs have gone 18-4-4 since an overtime loss at Anaheim on Oct. 30 and have stayed relatively close to red-hot Boston in the Atlantic Division.

Toronto led in the third period against Arizona and needed overtime to beat St. Louis in a game they led after 40 minutes.

“That is two games in a row now that we have given up a lead in the third period,” Maple Leafs coach Sheldon Keefe said. “It’s two games we’ve been in control of. It got away on us for different reasons.”

Saturday night will see the return of Dryden Hunt, whom the Avalanche dealt to Toronto for Denis Malgin on Dec. 19. Malgin has played in four games since the deal while Hunt played his first game with the Maple Leafs on Thursday night.

Colorado has dropped two in a row and recently lost Valeri Nichushkin when he aggravated his surgically repaired ankle, but things might be looking up for the reigning champions. Nathan MacKinnon, who hasn’t played since suffering an upper-body injury on Dec. 5, could play Saturday night.

MacKinnon’s original timeline for returning was four to five weeks, but he has been skating and coach Jared Bednar said he is a possibility for the game against Toronto.

MacKinnon was in a red non-contact jersey during Friday’s practice.

“When he feels comfortable enough to start taking full contact and getting into drills (he will),” Bednar said.

Forward Darren Helm, who has yet to play this year due to an abductor injury that required surgery, was on the ice Friday but is not set to return to the lineup.

If MacKinnon does return, it will ease the burden on Mikko Rantanen, who has carried the load among forwards this month with 11 goals, an Avalanche record for December. He has a four-game point streak, with three goals and four assists in that span.

Defenseman Cale Makar has been vital to keeping Colorado afloat. He scored his 57th career goal Thursday night, passing Adam Foote for sixth place in franchise history for goals by a defenseman.

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Drake Batherson and Alex DeBrincat haven’t cooled off since the Ottawa Senators’ last visit to Detroit.

The Senators will visit the Red Wings once again on New Year’s Eve.

Batherson scored twice and DeBrincat collected three assists in a 6-3 Ottawa victory over Detroit on Dec. 17.

Batherson will carry a 12-game point streak (seven goals, 10 assists) into the rematch. DeBrincat has scored four goals in the last three games, including the tying and winning goals in a 4-3 road victory over Washington on Thursday.

DeBrincat, acquired from Chicago during the offseason, had six goals and 11 assists entering the month. He’s notched seven goals and 11 assists in December. He has at least one point in 12 of the last 13 games.

“In any new system, it takes some time,” center Shane Pinto said. “He’s in a new spot and you knew he was going to start scoring. It was just a matter of time. He’s such an elite player and he’s just getting more and more comfortable and he’s just showing everyone what he can do. I’m not surprised at all.”

The Senators, who have won two straight, erased 2-0 and 3-1 deficits. They are 8-3-2 this month.

“We battled back,” Jake Sanderson said. “Thought there was probably like five minutes throughout the game where we weren’t ourselves, but we battled back, and we felt like we deserved this one.”

Washington had won five straight prior to Ottawa’s rally.

“They’ve been on a hot streak right now, and we did a good job of shutting them down for the most part,” DeBrincat said.

Detroit rallied from a 4-0 deficit to defeat Pittsburgh in overtime on Wednesday. The Red Wings trailed 5-0 to Buffalo after two periods on Thursday. They scored three unanswered goals in the third but wound up losing 6-3.

“You try to push because we know we did it the night before, so there’s no reason not to do it again,” forward Dominik Kubalik said. “We had some scoring chances in the beginning, too, and we just didn’t capitalize. A couple of mistakes ended up in our net, so we learned a little lesson.”

Kubalik scored twice against the Sabres, giving him 12 on the season. He and David Perron trail team leader Dylan Larkin by one goal.

“We just ran out of time,” Larkin said. “We gave up too much early in the game and a lot of times we shot ourselves in the foot and didn’t defend well enough, giving them easy chances.”

Coach Derek Lalonde lamented turnovers in their zone.

“In the second, we literally had three pucks on our stick that ended up in the slot on their stick and that was just too easy for them,” he said.

The Red Wings have lost seven of their last nine games, going 2-5-2 during that span. The game on Saturday begins a stretch in which they play six of seven games at home.

Ottawa will host Detroit on back-to-back nights on Feb. 27-28. The two teams were supposed to play in Ottawa on Dec. 23 but severe weather in the area forced a postponement.

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The St. Louis Blues have earned points in eight of their last nine games, but they are still playing catch-up in the Western Conference playoff race.

So the Blues will carry a sense of urgency when they host the Minnesota Wild on Saturday.

St. Louis, which is 5-1-3 during that nine-game span, is currently on the outside of the playoff bracket looking in.

“I think every point is important where we are right now,” Blues defenseman Calle Rosen said after the Blues defeated the Chicago Blackhawks 3-1 Thursday. “It was two big points for us today, and we’ve got to work to get another two points in two days here.”

The Blues suffered a 5-4 shootout loss to the Vegas Golden Knights on the road and a 5-4 overtime loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs at home in their previous two games.

“We need all the points we can get,” goaltender Jordan Binnington said. “We’re working through it, and we’re going to keep going and playing tighter and playing together. This is the fun part.”

This will be the first meeting between the Blues and their Central Division-rival Wild this season.

After winning six consecutive games, Minnesota has lost two of its last three. The Wild are coming off a 4-1 defeat at home to the Dallas Stars in a game that was closer than the score indicated.

“I think we are pretty confident that if we play our style of game and play how we want to play, we match up with everyone, whether it’s our division or not,” Wild winger Jordan Greenway said. “We didn’t get it done tonight against a division opponent, but we’ve got St. Louis coming up. Now our focus has got to be towards that and cleaning up the things that we didn’t do tonight.”

While the Stars were able to get shots toward the net for deflections and rebound opportunities, the Wild weren’t able to create their own puck luck around the net against the Stars.

“We got pucks up to the top and we had lanes to shoot. We didn’t,” Wild coach Dean Evason said. “We thought offensively we were doing the right things, but then we just shovel it back down low where they’re strong and we didn’t get anything going. It was a bit of a frustrating game in that aspect.

“But having said that, it was still a really good hockey game, really competitive hockey game. It was playoff atmosphere. It felt like it. Both teams were playing hard, playing well. They just caught a couple tips and got pucks to the net, and we didn’t.”

With offensive defenseman Torey Krug sidelined for roughly six weeks with a lower-body injury, Blues coach Craig Berube is giving defenseman Colton Parayko more power-play time and encouraging him to pick up some of the offensive slack.

“We need him to keep pounding on those pucks,” Berube said. “I think when he’s skating and closing plays out, skating pucks out of our zone and getting up the ice, he’s effective … really effective.”

The Blues hope to get winger Vladimir Tarasenko back in the lineup after he missed the Blackhawks game due to illness.

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The Arizona Coyotes are riding an unusual wave of momentum that, for a downtrodden franchise, is hard to fathom.

After yet another victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Thursday, the Coyotes will face a second Atlantic Division powerhouse when they put a three-game winning streak on the line against the host Tampa Bay Lightning on Saturday afternoon in a New Year’s Eve matchup.

Since the calendar flipped a year ago to 2022, Arizona has beaten the Leafs — owners of the Eastern Conference’s third-best record — all four times in the last 12 months.

The Coyotes defeated Toronto 2-1 and 5-4 in January and March, respectively. Then they topped the Canadian club 4-2 in Ontario on Oct. 17. In Thursday’s final meeting, the Coyotes piled it on the Leafs, beating them 6-3 at the Central Division team’s tiny rink on the campus of Arizona State.

That victory made it a 4-0-0 mark in 2022 against a group featuring superstars Auston Matthews, John Tavares and Mitch Marner.

Arizona enters Friday ranked 27th in points percentage out of 32 teams. It was 31st in the league last season with just 57 points.

“We’re winning games against really good opponents,” said Coyotes coach Andre Tourigny, whose squad was 6-1-1 at home in December.

He added that his team constantly tweaked its game to beat Toronto.

“They’re so relentless on the puck,” Tourigny said. “You have no time, no space, everywhere. … Tonight was a working day. We needed to dig in and go deep behind their (defense) and go to work. Lot of credit to our players. They adjusted during the game and were really good in the second period.”

Toronto led 3-2 after 40 minutes, but Arizona responded with a four-goal third. J.J. Moser tallied on the power play, and Jack McBain netted the game-winner at 13:43. McBain and Barrett Hayton put markers into an empty net.

After winning for the sixth straight time at home, Tampa Bay has been well-tested as it prepares for the last game of 2022.

Going 9-3-0 thus far in December, the Lightning won for the first time in five regular-season games against the New York Rangers by rallying for a 2-1 shootout win Friday.

They trailed 1-0 in the third, got a goal from Brayden Point to force overtime and won their second straight on Alex Killorn’s shootout winner and goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy (45 saves) stopping five of six New York shots in the extra session. Point also scored in the shootout.

By all accounts, it was a hard-fought tilt that resembled a match played with plenty more on the line than two points.

“That was a good hockey game,” Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper said. “You play 82 of them. It’s NHL hockey, but to me, you could’ve inserted that for any one of the playoff games last year.

“It was wildly entertaining, goalies were making saves, guys were getting chances, posts were ringing at both ends of the ice. It’s pretty fitting that it went to a shootout.”

Against Arizona, the Lightning are 9-5-0 in their past 14 meetings dating back to the 2014-15 season. Overall this year, they are 14-4-1 at home and 6-1 in overtime and shootouts.

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