RALEIGH, N.C. – Nathan Horton had a goal and an assist and the Florida Panthers beat Carolina 4-3 on Friday night to prevent the Hurricanes from clinching the Southeast Division.

Radek Dvorak added a goal and an assist, and Jay Bouwmeester and Steve Montador also scored for the Panthers, who snapped a 13-game losing streak on Carolina’s home ice and won here for the first time since 2002.

Eric Staal, Sergei Samsonov and Trevor Letowski each scored for the Hurricanes, who would have clinched the division with a victory and outshot Florida 46-17 while committing no penalties to the Panthers’ nine.

Instead for Carolina, it will be a long weekend of scoreboard watching. Washington would clinch the division title by beating Florida on Saturday night. The division goes to the Hurricanes with a Capitals loss.

Tomas Vokoun stopped 17 of the 18 shots he faced in the first period before leaving with back spasms and giving way to Craig Anderson, who finished the game and made 26 saves for the Panthers. Cam Ward made 13 saves in his 20th straight start for Carolina before he was pulled for an extra attacker with about 11/2 minutes left.

Samsonov had pulled Carolina within one goal by scoring on the power play midway through the third period, taking a feed from Ray Whitney and one-timing it high and past Anderson’s glove side to make it 4-3. But Anderson was impenetrable after that, making flashy save after flashy save to seal Florida’s first victory in Raleigh since a 2-0 win on Dec. 6, 2002.

Islanders 4, Rangers 3

NEW YORK – Richard Park scored a short-handed goal in the second period and then added the decisive tally in the shootout for the New York Islanders, who finished a disappointing season with a 4-3 victory over the New York Rangers on Friday night.

Jaromir Jagr got the Rangers even at 3 just 4:20 into the third period, with his third goal in two games, but it wasn’t enough.

Kyle Okposo and Blake Comeau scored on the Islanders’ first two shootout attempts against Henrik Lundqvist, but Nigel Dawes and Fredrik Sjostrom tied it.

In the fourth round, Park beat Lundqvist again before Wade Dubielewicz turned aside Petr Prucha. Dubielewicz made 48 saves, and Lundqvist stopped 29 shots before the shootout.

The Islanders earned a split of the home-and-home series with their archrivals, but didn’t meet their prime objective of spoiling the Rangers’ postseason plans. The Rangers locked up an Eastern Conference playoff berth with a 3-0 victory on Long Island on Thursday night.

All that remains on the line for the Rangers is a chance to finish fourth in the East and have home-ice advantage over the New Jersey Devils in the first round of the playoffs. The Rangers and Devils close the regular season Sunday in New Jersey.

Flyers 3, Devils 0

PHILADELPHIA – Martin Biron stopped all 22 shots for his fourth shutout and the Philadelphia Flyers clinched a playoff spot with a 3-0 win over the New Jersey Devils on Friday night.

The Flyers’ remarkable turnaround from the worst team in the NHL last season to the Eastern Conference playoffs was completed when Florida beat Carolina 4-3 shortly after Philadelphia’s win.

R.J. Umberger scored his 13th goal of the season only 5:44 into the game, and Scottie Upshall and Joffrey Lupul scored 37 seconds apart in the third.

Biron, who has never played a postseason game, recorded his 22nd career shutout.

There could be a Philly playoff double on Friday night. The 76ers needed to win at Atlanta to reach the postseason for the first time since 2005.

Martin Brodeur made 33 saves and was having one of the more dazzling performances against the Flyers by a visiting goalie this season until the third.

The Flyers attacked Brodeur all three periods, putting him on his back, on his knees or sprawled along the crease on almost every shot. He stopped just about everything until he allowed two straight goals and was pulled for Kevin Weekes.

‘Hawks 3, Predators 1

CHICAGO – NHL rookie scoring leader Patrick Kane recorded his 20th goal and had an assist, and Patrick Lalime made 29 saves in the Chicago Blackhawks’ 3-1 win over the Nashville Predators on Friday night.

Rookies Jonathan Toews and Adam Burish also scored for Chicago, which won its fourth straight.

Rich Peverley scored for Nasvhille, which lost for the first time in regulation following a 5-0-1 stretch. The loss locked the Predators, who played their final regular-season game, into eighth place and the last playoff spot in the Western Conference.

Nashville will face league-leading Detroit in the opening postseason round. The Predators were 3-3-2 against the Red Wings in regular-season play.

The Blackhawks were eliminated from the playoffs for the ninth time in 10 seasons on Thursday night when Nashville defeated St. Louis.

Chris Mason started in goal for Nashville and allowed three goals on 12 shots. He was replaced midway through the second period by Pekka Rinne, who made eight saves.

Coyotes 4, Stars 2

DALLAS – Rookie Daniel Carcillo had three goals for his first career hat trick, rookie Martin Hanzal notched the tiebreaking goal in the second period, and the Phoenix Coyotes beat the Dallas Stars 4-2 on Friday night to snap a three-game losing streak.

With the game tied at 2, Hanzal took a long lead pass from Zbynek Michalek and beat Dallas goalie Marty Turco on a breakaway for his eighth goal of the season at 13:13 of the second period.

Carcillo put the game away with an empty-netter with 2.7 seconds left, his 11th of the season.

The teams completed a home-and-home, back-to-back situation, with Dallas having won Thursday night’s matchup in Glendale, Ariz., 4-2.