Thrashers Roll to a 9-0 Victory

A night after scoring a career-high four goals, Ilya Kovalchuk had two goals to help the Atlanta Thrashers set a franchise scoring record in a 9-0 victory over Southeast Division-leading Carolina on Saturday night at Raleigh, N.C.

“Kovalchuk started us again with another of his rockets,” Coach Bob Hartley said. “Then we just kept building and they got into penalty problems and we took advantage of them.”

The Thrashers, who broke the team mark of eight goals, ended Carolina’s franchise-record winning streak at nine games. It was Carolina’s first loss since falling in overtime at Toronto on Oct. 20 and its first home loss this season.

Atlanta scored on its first two shots, with Kovalchuk and Scott Mellanby beating Martin Gerber, who was pulled after Mellanby’s goal with 9 minutes 3 seconds left in the period.

New York Rangers 6, Pittsburgh 1 -- Former Penguin Jaromir Jagr scored three goals, including two 15 seconds apart in the second period, and the Rangers won their third in a row on the road.

Jagr has 17 goals and is tied for the league lead with Philadelphia’s Simon Gagne.

Ottawa 6, Buffalo 1 -- Dany Heatley scored twice at Ottawa to extend his club-record scoring streak to 15 games.

Heatley has at least one point in every game the Senators (13-2-0) have played this season. He has 15 goals and 13 assists.

Toronto 5, Montreal 4 -- Jeff O’Neill scored a power-play goal with 46.8 seconds left in overtime at Montreal.

Jason Allison scored the tying goal with 2:28 remaining in the third period.

Calgary 5, Colorado 3 -- Jarome Iginla, Tony Amonte and Craig MacDonald scored in a 2:05 span in the Flames’ four-goal first period at Calgary, Canada.

Philadelphia 5, Florida 4 -- Mike Knuble scored a short-handed goal with 3.2 seconds left, giving the Flyers their sixth consecutive victory and ninth in a row at home.

Knuble scored twice, Simon Gagne had his 17th goal and Peter Forsberg had his NHL-leading 25th assist.

New York Islanders 5, Boston 2 -- Trent Hunter of the Islanders ended a 12-game scoring drought with a goal at Uniondale, N.Y.

Shawn Bates had two goals for the Islanders and teammate Mike York scored his 100th goal.

New Jersey 3, Washington 2 -- Martin Brodeur made 18 saves at East Rutherford, N.J., for his second consecutive victory over Washington since returning from a knee injury.

Grant Marshall, Vladimir Malakhov and Jamie Langenbrunner had power-play goals for the Devils.

Nashville 3, St. Louis 1 -- Scott Hartnell scored on a power play 58 seconds into the second period and gave the host Predators the lead with a short-handed goal at 7:59.

Dallas 3, San Jose 2 -- Jussi Jokinen and Sergei Zubov beat Evgeni Nabokov in a shootout at San Jose to help the Stars win for the fourth time in five games. The Sharks lost their third in a row.