OTTAWA – Marian Hossa had a goal and an assist, and the Ottawa Senators scored five times in the second period en route to a 6-1 victory over the Carolina Hurricanes on Thursday night.

Hossa, who leads the Senators with 10 goals and 20 points, assisted on Vaclav Varada’s tying goal with 9.6 seconds left in the first. It was Ottawa’s first even-strength goal in four games.

Jason Spezza, Radek Bonk, Peter Schaefer, Todd White and Hossa scored in the second as the Senators outshot Carolina 17-4 in the period.

The six goals in the game tied a season high set in a 6-2 win in Montreal on Oct. 25.

Bryan Smolinski and Zdeno Chara each had two assists for Ottawa, which ended a 2-2 homestand. During that stretch, the Senators lost consecutive home games for the first time in two years.

Radim Vrbata scored his first goal in nine games for Carolina, which tied Philadelphia 2-2 on Tuesday and remained winless in three.

Ottawa allowed the first goal for the seventh straight game when Vrbata finished off a two-on-one with Eric Staal 12:38 in.

Lightning 3, Islanders 2

TAMPA, Fla. – Cory Stillman scored his 10th goal of the season in the third period to help lift the Tampa Bay Lightning over the New York Islanders 3-2 Thursday night.

Stillman’s goal from the left circle gave Tampa Bay a 3-0 lead 4:27 into the third. Fredrik Modin and Brad Richards had the other Tampa Bay goals.

Arron Asham and Mariusz Czerkawski scored for the Islanders late in the game to make it close.

Asham brought the Islanders within 3-1 at 14:19 of the third, and Czerkawski made it a one-goal game with 1:24 left.

Modin’s backhander put the Lightning ahead at 13:28 of the first. Tampa Bay (10-2-2-1) is 9-0-1 when scoring first. Richards made it 2-0 after a New York turnover at 17:21, scoring his first goal in nine games.

Flyers 3, Wild 1

PHILADELPHIA – Mark Recchi had two power-play goals and an assist, helping the Philadelphia Flyers extend their unbeaten streak to eight games with a 3-1 victory over the Minnesota Wild on Thursday night.

The Flyers, 7-0-1 in their last eight games, are 8-0-2 at home this season.

Alexandre Daigle scored against his former team for the Wild, who shut out the Flyers in consecutive games last February.

Tony Amonte added a goal and assist, and Jeremy Roenick had two assists for Philadelphia. The line of Roenick, Recchi and Amonte has 51 points in 15 games since they were united four games into the season.

Jackets 3, Red Wings 0

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Dan Fritsche became the first Ohio native to score a goal for the Columbus Blue Jackets in a 3-0 victory over the Detroit Red Wings on Thursday night.

Marc Denis stopped 25 shots for his second shutout of the season and 11th of his career.

The 18-year-old Fritsche’s wrister early in the third period was the first goal of his NHL career. The Parma, Ohio, native was a second-round pick in this year’s draft.

Rick Nash and Andrew Cassels added goals for the Blue Jackets, who were beaten 5-1 by the Red Wings on Wednesday in Detroit.

The Wings, who fell to 14-3-1 in the series, won the previous two meetings this season by a combined 9-2 score. Detroit also came in unbeaten in five games (4-0-1) while the Blue Jackets were winless in five (0-3-2).

Fritsche skated down the left wing, faked a pass and rocketed a shot from the top of the circle inside the far post to make it 3-0 just 3:11 into the final period. The goal came on his 14th career shot. Kent McDonell earned his first NHL assist on the score.

Columbus led 1-0 after a period on Nash’s 11th goal of the season.

Rostislav Klesla half-whiffed on a drive from the point, and the puck lazily went through the slot where it tipped off Trevor Letowski’s stick. The puck bounced to Nash who was waiting at the doorstep at the 8:53 mark.

Manny Legace gave up a soft goal to make it 2-0.

Cassels was playing the puck after Geoff Sanderson sent it around the back boards. From a hard angle near the right goal line, Cassels wristed a shot at Legace, who was tight up against the near post. But the puck somehow got through off Legace’s glove.

Sanderson’s assist gave him a three-game point streak.

Denis was solid throughout. The Wings’ best chance in the opening period came when Boyd Devereaux had an open net in front of him just seconds after Nash’s goal.

Pavel Datsyuk had prime scoring chances in both the second and third periods, firing one shot over the goal and then taking a pass from Brett Hull and shooting wide at 4:15 of the third.

Denis gloved Kirk Maltby’s blast from the right hash with 3:17 left.

Notes: Columbus had given up at least one power-play goal in each of its last four games, but the Red Wings were 0-for-3 on the power play. … Legace came in 5-1-1 against Columbus. … The Blue Jackets improved to 2-2-1-4 at home against Detroit.

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