SUNRISE, Fla. – Shawn McEachern had two goals, and Ilya Kovalchuk scored his NHL-leading 15th to lead the Atlanta Thrashers to their third straight victory, 6-3 over the Florida Panthers on Friday night.

The Thrashers scored twice on the power play, and twice while skating short-handed in the second period.

McEachern, with only three goals this season, scored to give Atlanta leads of 1-0 and 5-3. Kovalchuk added two assists and has 27 points this season. J.P. Vigier and Andy Sutton had the short-handed goals.

Sabres 5, Hurricanes 0

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Mika Noronen made 35 saves for his third career shutout, and J.P. Dumont had two goals and an assist to lead the Buffalo Sabres to a 5-0 victory over the Carolina Hurricanes on Friday.

Ales Kotalik and Jochen Hecht each added a goal and an assist for Buffalo, which scored three goals in the second period en rout to its second win in three games.

Hecht, Kotalik and Chris Drury scored for Buffalo in a 10:59 span in the second.

Devils 2, Penguins 1

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J – Patrik Elias scored two goals, including the game-winner 39 seconds into overtime Friday night, to stretch the New Jersey Devils’ unbeaten streak to 11 games with a 2-1 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins.

The Penguins forced overtime when Dick Tarnstrom scored a power-play goal with 26.8 seconds left in regulation.

On Elias’ second goal, he took a pass in his own end from Brian Rafalski and skated to the Penguins zone. He used Pittsburgh defenseman Drake Berehowsky as a screen to beat goalie Marc-Andre Fleury, who kept the Penguins in the game throughout.

Stars 3, Kings 1

DALLAS – Marty Turco bounced back from a shaky performance to make 25 saves, and Brenden Morrow scored twice to help the Dallas Stars halt a seven-game winless streak with a 3-1 victory over the Los Angeles Kings on Friday night.

Turco, who gave up a 90-foot tying goal to Anaheim’s Andy McDonald in the third period of Wednesday’s tie, allowed only Alexander Frolov to beat him Friday with a second-period, power-play goal. Turco also had some luck on his side as the Kings hit the goal posts three times with shots. Two came in the third period by Eric Belanger and Trent Klatt.

Sharks 5, Coyotes 0

PHOENIX – Marco Sturm and Mike Ricci scored on San Jose’s first two power plays, and the Sharks rolled to a 5-0 victory over the Phoenix Coyotes on Friday night.

Alyn McCauley, Vincent Damphousse and Brad Stuart also had goals for the Sharks, who have an NHL-high eight ties – one off their 2002-03 total. They needed the win just to tie Pittsburgh for fewest victories in the NHL (4). Stuart’s goal typified how things fell apart for the Coyotes. He was the last Sharks player to touch the puck before Phoenix defenseman Brad Ference, trying to clear it from the boards, slapped it into the skates of goaltender Brian Boucher.