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Oilers top Canes to halt winless streak
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February 3, 2010, Wednesday
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THE Edmonton Oilers avoided matching a franchise-record winless streak with a 4-2 victory over the Carolina Hurricanes on Monday.
The game was locked at 2-2 in the second period before Marc Pouliot and Sam Gagner found the net to ensure the Oilers ended a run of 13 straight losses, one shy of Edmonton's longest stretch without a win set in 1993.
"It hasn't been easy and it was certainly not something I expected to happen to this hockey team," Oilers coach Pat Quinn told reporters.
"We've had some rough spots in a lot of these games and haven't held up. We had a couple of rough stretches again tonight but we bent and came back tonight. It's something we have to keep building on."
Edmonton appeared on course for a familiar fate when Carolina's Andrew Alberts scored from a slap shot less than three minutes into the game but Jean-Francois Jacques and Gilbert Brule put the Oilers ahead before the end of the opening period.
Jussi Jokinen tied the contest for the Hurricanes at 10:49 in the second before the Oilers regained control to win for the first time this year.
Worst record
Edmonton (17-31-6) has the worst record in the NHL but moved within five points of Carolina (19-29-7). Gagner provided another strong performance for the Oilers, his power play goal at 17:05 in the second was his fifth in six games.
Oiler's goalie Jeff Deslauriers recorded 33 saves, including 15 in the third when the Canes turned up the pressure, while his opposite number Cam Ward managed 23 in the loss.
"It wasn't a pretty game to watch from either side," said Carolina coach Paul Maurice. "Cam Ward has really been the difference for us the last two weeks but he wasn't at his 'A' game best tonight."
The game was a rematch of the 2006 Stanley Cup Final when the Hurricanes captured the best-of-seven series 4-3, but this season neither team is likely to make the postseason.
Carolina had a four-game winning streak snapped but will still hope to put together a run reminiscent of last year, when it won 24 of its final 36 games and advanced to the conference finals.
In Pittsburgh, Sidney Crosby scored three goals in slightly more than eight minutes of the second period as the Penguins held on to beat the Buffalo Sabres 5-4. Crosby tied San Jose's Patrick Marleau for the NHL goals lead with 37.
In NHL action elsewhere, it was: Ducks 3, Panthers 0; and Flyers 3, Flames 0.
The game was locked at 2-2 in the second period before Marc Pouliot and Sam Gagner found the net to ensure the Oilers ended a run of 13 straight losses, one shy of Edmonton's longest stretch without a win set in 1993.
"It hasn't been easy and it was certainly not something I expected to happen to this hockey team," Oilers coach Pat Quinn told reporters.
"We've had some rough spots in a lot of these games and haven't held up. We had a couple of rough stretches again tonight but we bent and came back tonight. It's something we have to keep building on."
Edmonton appeared on course for a familiar fate when Carolina's Andrew Alberts scored from a slap shot less than three minutes into the game but Jean-Francois Jacques and Gilbert Brule put the Oilers ahead before the end of the opening period.
Jussi Jokinen tied the contest for the Hurricanes at 10:49 in the second before the Oilers regained control to win for the first time this year.
Worst record
Edmonton (17-31-6) has the worst record in the NHL but moved within five points of Carolina (19-29-7). Gagner provided another strong performance for the Oilers, his power play goal at 17:05 in the second was his fifth in six games.
Oiler's goalie Jeff Deslauriers recorded 33 saves, including 15 in the third when the Canes turned up the pressure, while his opposite number Cam Ward managed 23 in the loss.
"It wasn't a pretty game to watch from either side," said Carolina coach Paul Maurice. "Cam Ward has really been the difference for us the last two weeks but he wasn't at his 'A' game best tonight."
The game was a rematch of the 2006 Stanley Cup Final when the Hurricanes captured the best-of-seven series 4-3, but this season neither team is likely to make the postseason.
Carolina had a four-game winning streak snapped but will still hope to put together a run reminiscent of last year, when it won 24 of its final 36 games and advanced to the conference finals.
In Pittsburgh, Sidney Crosby scored three goals in slightly more than eight minutes of the second period as the Penguins held on to beat the Buffalo Sabres 5-4. Crosby tied San Jose's Patrick Marleau for the NHL goals lead with 37.
In NHL action elsewhere, it was: Ducks 3, Panthers 0; and Flyers 3, Flames 0.
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