RALEIGH, N.C. – Josef Vasicek scored with 11:51 left to help the Carolina Hurricanes overcome a two-goal deficit in a 3-2 victory over the Florida Panthers on Thursday night.

Rod Brind’Amour and Kevyn Adams also scored for the Hurricanes, who rallied for just their third win in 27 games when trailing going into the third period.

Nathan Horton and Niklas Hagman scored for the Panthers, and Roberto Luongo made 42 saves, giving him an NHL-record 2,219 on the season. That broke the record of 2,214 set by Toronto’s Felix Potvin in 1996-97.

Predators 4, Rangers 2

NEW YORK – Andreas Johansson snapped a third-period tie, and the Nashville Predators moved into seventh place in the Western Conference with their team-record 35th win Thursday night, 4-2 over the New York Rangers.

Defensemen Marek Zidlicky and Mark Eaton, and Martin Erat also scored for Nashville. Steve Sullivan had three assists to give him two goals and 12 assists in his last 11 games, and eight goals and 19 assists in 19 games since being acquired from Chicago.

Jaromir Jagr reached 30 goals for 13th straight season and Karel Rachunek also scored for New York, which dropped its eighth straight (0-5-0-3). Counting overtime losses, New York has been beaten a team-record 46 times.

Senators 4, Canadiens 0

MONTREAL – Daniel Alfredsson scored twice and added an assist, and Patrick Lalime made 29 saves in the Ottawa Senators’ 4-0 victory over Montreal 4-0 on Thursday night.

Montreal, 2-1 losers in Buffalo on Wednesday night, failed for the second straight game to earn the single point it needs to clinch a playoff spot.

Alfredsson had 13 points in six games against Montreal this season to help Ottawa take the season series 4-2. The Ottawa captain also matched his career high of 78 points set last season.

Lightning 2, Devils 1

TAMPA, Fla. – Brad Richards scored with 4:58 left to give the Eastern Conference-leading Tampa Bay Lightning a 2-1 victory over the New Jersey Devils on Thursday night.

Richards’ pass from behind the net appeared to deflect into the net off New Jersey defenseman Viktor Kozlov.

New Jersey tied it at 1 midway through the period on Patrik Elias’ 35th goal of the season.

Red Wings 3, Avalanche 1

DENVER – Manny Legace stopped 34 shots and Detroit scored twice in the final 2 minutes, lifting the Red Wings to a 3-1 win over Colorado on Thursday night.

Detroit managed just 23 shots, but Tomas Holmstrom scored on a power play in the first period and Pavel Datsyuk sealed the win with 2:32 left when goalie David Aebischer failed to cover a shot by Henrik Zetterberg.

Wild 8, Blackhawks 2

CHICAGO – Alexandre Daigle scored twice and the Minnesota Wild set a franchise record for goals, beating the Chicago Blackhawks 8-2 on Thursday night.

Andrei Zyuzin, Wes Walz, Matt Johnson, Anti Laaksonen, Rickard Wallin and Marian Gaborik also scored for Minnesota. Pascal DuPuis had four assists, and Filip Kuba and Gaborik assisted on two goals.

Islanders 4, Flyers 2

PHILADELPHIA – Wade Dubielewicz came off the bench to stop all 14 shots in his NHL debut to lead the New York Islanders to a 4-2 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers.

Adrian Aucoin scored two goals in the first period, and Mark Parrish netted the game-winner on a breakaway in the second to give the Islanders their fourth straight victory.

Dubielewicz, who replaced Garth Snow after the first period, made three sprawling saves in the second and reached back with his stick to stop two of the shots from crossing the goal line.

Blues 3, Mighty Ducks 2

ST. LOUIS – Jamal Mayers scored the game-winner with his first goal in 18 games, and Chris Pronger had three assists in the St. Louis Blues’ 3-2 victory over Anaheim.

The Blues have 83 points, tied with the Oilers for the eighth spot in the Western Conference, with six games to go in a tight four-team battle for the final two positions.

At stake is their streak of 24 consecutive postseason appearances, the longest current run in professional sports.

Mayers had one assist since his last goal, a bad-angle game-winning goal in a 4-2 victory over the Coyotes on Feb. 16. He also entered the game with a minus-20 rating, by far the worst on the team, before scoring on a deflection at 8:26 of the third period.

Pavol Demitra had a goal and an assist and Keith Tkachuk also scored for the Blues, who finished the season series 2-1-1 against the Mighty Ducks. St. Louis, playing on four days’ rest, cranked it up in the final period after a so-so start.

Jason Krog and Rob Niedermayer scored for the Mighty Ducks, who had totaled 12 goals in winning their two previous games. In this one, they often dominated play but were frustrated by goalie Chris Osgood.

Krog’s deflection at 11:49 of the first period of a point shot by Niclas Havelid gave the Mighty Ducks the early lead.

The Blues tied it at 37 seconds of the second period on Demitra’s 22nd goal on the power play, a shot from the right circle that beat a screened Jean-Sebastien Giguere. Tkachuk lifted Giguere’s stick as the puck went through, snapping an 0-for-10 slump with the man advantage for St. Louis.

A rebound shot from Niedermayer at the end of a flurry on a power play put the Ducks back in front at 6:39 of the second. The Blues retied it on Tkachuk’s deflection from Demitra on a power play at 10:02, 14 seconds after Vitaly Vishnevski was whistled for charging.

Notes: The Blues have played a franchise-record 32 one-goal games, going 22-10. … Blues F Mark Rycroft missed his sixth game with a leg injury. … Krog scored his first goal in 15 games. … Tkachuk has a team-leading 31 points on the power play on 17 goals and 14 assists. … Pronger had totaled one assists in his previous five games.

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