By The Associated Press

RALEIGH, N.C. – Jochen Hecht had two goals and Martin Biron made 37 saves, helping the Buffalo Sabres erase a two-goal deficit and beat the Carolina Hurricanes 4-2 on Sunday.

Derek Roy’s third-period goal put the Sabres ahead to stay, and Milan Bartovic had a goal and an assist for Buffalo, which finished a five-game road trip 2-3.

Erik Cole and Kevyn Adams scored for the Hurricanes, who had a 39-21 advantage in shots.

The Sabres rallied from a two-goal deficit with two second-period goals and some big saves by Biron.

Roy’s second goal of the season gave the Sabres the lead and sent Carolina to its fourth straight home loss.

After a turnover by defenseman Bruno St. Jacques in the Carolina zone, Bartovic shot on Jamie Storr, who made the save but failed to control the puck. Roy pushed the rebound into the left side of the net at 5:15 of the period. Hecht added an insurance goal at 18:31.

The Sabres scored twice off rebounds. Bartovic scored Buffalo’s first goal off a shot by Delmore, poking the puck past Storr at 3:55.

Hecht tied it midway through the period, sidestepping defender Niclas Wallin and scoring on a shot from the left circle.

Biron also had three big stops late in the period, turning back shots by Ron Francis, and Justin Williams, and making a diving stop on a shot by Josef Vasicek after getting caught behind the net.

Carolina, which has started slowly in recent games, charged to an early lead on Cole’s eighth goal of the season.

He took Vrbata’s pass from behind the net and beat Biron with a short shot from the left side at 4:06.

The Hurricanes took a 2-0 lead on Adams’ short-handed goal early in the second period. After racing up the ice on a turnover, he hesitated on the shot to let a sprawled-out Andy Delmore slide by before beating Biron at 2:14.

Flyers 4, Capitals 1

WASHINGTON – Mark Recchi and John LeClair each had a goal and three assists in the Philadelphia Flyers’ 4-1 victory over the short-handed Washington Capitals on Sunday night.

Washington played with just five defensemen after losing Sergei Gonchar to a shoulder injury Friday night in a loss in Florida.

Recchi opened the scoring at 5:30 of the first period, beating goalie Rastislav Stana with a wrist shot after LeClair’s strong play to keep the puck in offensive zone.

LeClair made it 2-0 less than three minutes later, tipping a shot behind Stana, who started in place of Olaf Kolzig for the first time since being recalled from Portland on Jan. 6.

Recchi has 18 goals this season, and LeClair has 13.

Devils 3, Thrashers 2

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. – Jeff Friesen scored his third goal in four games early in the third period to lead the New Jersey Devils to a 3-2 victory over the Atlanta Thrashers on Sunday night.

Martin Brodeur made 24 saves, including a spectacular tumbling stop on Frantisek Kaberle in the second period, and Grant Marshall scored a goal and set up another by Patrik Elias to help the Devils win for the fourth time (4-1-1) in six games.

Ilya Kovalchuk scored his 26th goal of the season and Jeff Cowan added another for Atlanta, which lost for the second time in two nights.

The Thrashers actually were inches away from wiping out a 2-1 deficit to start the third period when things fell apart.

Kovalchuk had tied the game at 4:19 with his first career short-handed goal.

A little more than two minutes later, he led a three-on-one rush into the Devils’ zone.

Brodeur made a pad save on the initial shot and Cowan banged the rebound off the goal post.

Erik Rasmussen’s slap shot on the ensuing rush didn’t find the net. The Thrashers made an errant pass from the side boards trying to get the puck out of their zone and Friesen ripped a shot past Dafoe.

for his 11th goal.