RALEIGH — Forward Cory Stillman had a goal and an assist against his former team and the Carolina Hurricanes hung on to beat the Florida Panthers 2-1 at RBC Center Tuesday.

In the first period, Stillman scored when linemate Erik Cole broke away and was brought to his knees with Florida's Darcy Hordichuk in pursuit. Cole, sliding towards the end boards, still managed to pass the puck to the slot, where Stillman sent it five-hole at 5:25.

Stillman, in his third game with the Canes since being traded by the Panthers, has scored in consecutive contests.

RALEIGH — A slapshot from Florida defenseman Bryan Allen gave the Panther a 4-3 overtime win over the Carolina Hurricanes at the RBC Center tonight.

Allen scored at the 1:16 mark of the overtime period, as the Panthers gained a point on the Hurricanes and moved past the Ottawa Senators for 10th place in the Eastern Conference with 38 points. The Hurricanes are in ninth place with 41 points and were lucky to salvage a point.

Carolina was down 3-1 with under 15 minutes left in the third period but tied the game 3-3 at about the halfway point of the period.

SUNRISE, Fla. — The Carolina Hurricanes had a police escort, sirens blazing, Wednesday from their hotel in Fort Lauderdale Beach to the Florida Panthers' BankAtlantic Center.

Once at the arena, the Hurricanes were on their own. The Panthers made all the early noise, but the Canes were loud late. Very loud.

Trailing 3-0 barely five minutes into the game, the Hurricanes rallied behind rookie Jeff Skinner, veteran Tuomo Ruutu and backup goalie Justin Peters for pulsating 4-3 victory.

From Talking Points: 

Maybe Olli Jokinen wasn't the problem in Sunrise after all.

The Florida Panthers are busy choking their way out of the playoffs for the umpteenth straight year, and without Jokinen to blame this time. This time they've lost eight of 10, which is about par for March (although they're way behind pace in the "Carolina is a bunch of divers" category).

Each spring, as the Panthers faded their way out of the playoff chase, there were whispers that Jokinen's leadership was at fault. After all, he'd never played in a single playoff game. (Never mind that anyone who played for the Islanders, Kings and Panthers had an uphill climb in that category anyway.)

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Maybe Olli Jokinen wasn't the problem in Sunrise after all.

The Florida Panthers are busy choking their way out of the playoffs for the umpteenth straight year, and without Jokinen to blame this time. This time they've lost eight of 10, which is about par for March (although they're way behind pace in the "Carolina is a bunch of divers" category).

Each spring, as the Panthers faded their way out of the playoff chase, there were whispers that Jokinen's leadership was at fault. After all, he'd never played in a single playoff game. (Never mind that anyone who played for the Islanders, Kings and Panthers had an uphill climb in that category anyway.)

SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Ray Whitney scored 1:37 into overtime to lead the surging Carolina Hurricanes to a 3-2 victory over the Florida Panthers on Monday night.

Tuomo Ruutu and Patrick Eaves also scored for Carolina, which improved to 8-1-2 in its last 11 games and moved past Pittsburgh into fifth place in the Eastern Conference.

Jay Bouwmeester and Cory Stillman scored for Florida, which has lost six of seven. The Panthers tied idle Montreal for eighth in the East with 81 points. Florida has played one more game.

The day after the Carolina Hurricanes fell 5-0 to the Florida Panthers, coach Paul Maurice went to the drawing board during practice Friday.

“The first two goals, we left a hole in the middle of the ice because we just didn’t work hard enough to get back there,” said Maurice.

Maurice said the game had to be dealt with, and was today, but that team wasn’t as bad as the score suggested. Likewise, he said they weren’t as good Saturday in their 7-2 win over the Phoenix Coyotes as that score would suggest. He looked at the big picture and noted that his team is 6-3-0 in their last nine games.

The Florida Panthers shutout the Hurricanes 5-0 behind the goaltending of Tomas Vokoun.

Staff photo by Chris Seward

Panthers 5, Hurricanes 0 (second period):

The Panthers score twice in 12 seconds.

First, center Anthony Stewart breaks away and backhands the puck past Ward at 9:18 of the second period.

Then, at 9:20, center Gregory Campbell wrists one past Ward in the slot. Right wing Radek Dvorak had centered the puck to Campbell from the right wing.

Hurricanes coach Paul Maurice responds by pulling Ward from the game for backup Michael Leighton.

Then center Michael Frolik scored at 13:33 to make the score 5-0, firing from the slot on the pass from Kamil Kreps, who was in the left corner. ...