clear to new general manager Paul Fenton whether they’re contenders this season or not.“Everyone wants to be here in this room and win, but if we keep putting up efforts like this,

RALEIGH Colton Parayko Jersey , N.C. (AP) — Bill Peters’ return to Carolina went about as perfectly as he could have imagined.He has the players he brought with him to Calgary to thank for that.Derek Ryan, Elias Lindholm and Noah Hanifin all scored in their first game back in Carolina, and the Flames beat the Hurricanes 4-3 on Sunday in Peters’ return to Raleigh.Peters resigned as Carolina’s coach last offseason and took over in Calgary. Shortly after, the Flames acquired Lindholm and Hanifin in a trade with the Hurricanes, and Ryan signed with Calgary after three seasons in Carolina.The ex-Hurricanes had a hand in all four Flames goals. Lindholm pulled Calgary into a tie late in the first, Ryan scored the go-ahead goal in the second and assisted on Garnet Hathaway’s goal later in the period, and Hanifin finished the scoring with a slap shot in the third.“You can’t script that,” said Peters, who coached the Hurricanes for four seasons. “All the guys involved had a positive impact on the game.”David Rittich made 34 saves as Calgary improved to 9-1-1 in its last 11 games.A pregame video welcoming Peters, Ryan, Lindholm and Hanifin back to Carolina was met with boos by the crowd.It only served to fire the players up. After the final buzzer sounded, Lindholm began clapping his hands over his head, mocking what the Hurricanes do after home victories. Lindholm received even louder boos after that.“My name came up twice on the JumboTron and I got booed http://www.officialblues.com/authentic-adidas-dmitrij-jaskin-jersey , so that was a nice way to end it,” Lindholm said. “I was surprised. I tried to play hard here for five years and got booed. It is what it is. It was nice to end it that way.”Sebastian Aho, Teuvo Teravainen and Dougie Hamilton each had a goal and an assist for the Hurricanes. Petr Mrazek made 28 saves.The Flames scored three consecutive goals after Carolina took an early lead, and Rittich made it stand up with a string of highlight-reel saves.Rittich stopped Justin Williams’ chance at an open net off a deflection and Micheal Ferland’s point-blank slap shot in the first period. He made a terrific pad save on Lucas Wallmark’s one-timer in the second as well as stopping Ferland’s late deflection in front of the net, and he robbed Williams again with a pad save on a one-timer in the third to preserve Calgary’s one-goal lead.“Big-time saves,” Peters said. “It was a hell of a hockey game and those were some high-end plays.”After a turnover by Flames defenseman TJ Brodie in front of Rittich led to Carolina’s first goal, Calgary took control. Mark Giordano’s wrist shot from the point redirected off Lindholm’s leg into the net to tie the score at the end of the first, and Ryan took over in the second.He gave the Flames their first lead with a wraparound 7:38 into the period, and served as the catalyst for a short-handed goal that made it 3-1. Ryan forced a turnover just inside his own blue line, skated the length of the ice along the left boards and finished a 2-on-1 with a pristine pass to Hathaway on the far post.“(Ryan) has had a lot of good games in this building,” Peters said. “He was real good. Brought a little extra juice for him coming back into PNC Arena.”Allowing the short-handed goal was punch to Carolina’s power play, which finished 0-for-4 on the day.“If you want to look at one big difference in the game you can look at that,” Williams said. “Our power play was minus-1 Youth Jaden Schwartz Jersey , which can’t happen. We need to execute and we need to score goals and those are crunch times. Instead of being 2-2 it’s 3-1 and that’s a tough hill to climb, especially against one of the better teams in the league.”After Rittich stonewalled numerous Carolina rushes in the third, Hanifin provided the backbreaker with 6:55 to go.Aho scored with the extra attacker on with 55 seconds remaining, but Carolina’s comeback attempt ran out of time.NOTES: Aho extended his point streak to five games. … Flames D Travis Hamonic did not dress after suffering a lower-body injury on Friday. … Hurricanes G Curtis McElhinney (knee) missed his sixth straight game. He remains day-to-day.UP NEXTFlames: Host San Jose on Thursday.Hurricanes: At Pittsburgh on Tuesday. ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Edmonton Oilers played with an edge and an eagerness to snap out of their slump, taking full advantage of a sleepy start by Minnesota.The Wild sure could use some of that same urgency.Darnell Nurse gave Edmonton an early boost by scoring 2:15 into the first period, and the Oilers stopped a six-game losing streak with a 4-1 victory Thursday night that sent the Wild to their fourth straight loss.“We just were hungry,” Oilers coach Ken Hitchcock said.Ty Rattie, Leon Draisaitl and Zack Kassian also scored, Connor McDavid and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins each had two assists, and Cam Talbot bounced back from an early exit with 35 saves for the Oilers, who were just 5-13-2 in their previous 20 games. They squandered a third-period lead in each of those last three losses, and Talbot was pulled Tuesday night against Chicago after giving up three goals in less than six minutes out of the second intermission.“I thought the guys played hard for him Jake Allen Jersey , and he played hard for them,” Hitchcock said. “He’s got a little bit of confidence going right now, so that’s a good sign.”Talbot won for the first time in four starts since Jan. 10.“We needed this one. This is a tough building to play in. They usually come out pretty hot,” Talbot said. “Our start was great tonight. We got all over them early, and we did the little things we needed to do to win the hockey game down the stretch.”The Wild picked up the pace in the second period with a 15-5 shots-on-goal advantage, but they found themselves in a two-goal hole at the second intermission, because of Rattie’s tap-in of a centering feed from Nugent-Hopkins only 4:32 into the middle frame.Joel Eriksson Ek had the Wild’s lone goal 2:50 into the third period , one encouraging sign for a team that just lost captain, center and defensive stalwart Mikko Koivu to a season-ending knee injury . Eriksson Ek was recalled from the AHL to take Koivu’s place, and coach Bruce Boudreau limited his compliments to Eriksson Ek and fellow youngsters Luke Kunin and Kyle Rau.As for right wing Mikael Granlund, who has just two goals in his last 37 games?“I can’t go out there and hang on his back and follow him up like a close-talker and say, ‘Hey, shoot the puck!’ He’s a smart enough player Joel Edmundson Jersey ,” Boudreau said.The Wild, who are clinging to seventh place and the first wild-card spot in the Western Conference, have 57 points for their lowest total at the 54-game mark since the 2005-06 season.“There’s some guys out there that just are a shell of the players that I’ve known for 2½ years,” Boudreau said.Minnesota’s momentum from Eriksson Ek’s goal was wiped out less than three minutes later. Jason Zucker checked Edmonton defenseman Kris Russell hard and sent him hurtling face first into the left post, angering the Oilers and drawing an interference penalty the Wild disputed. Twenty seconds into the power play, Draisaitl pushed the lead back to two for his eighth goal in the last six games.Kassian, who also had an assist, scored on an empty-netter after the puck skipped out to him following a denial of Granlund on the other end by Talbot.With a snowstorm swirling outside all day and keeping some fans away, the energy in the arena was already substandard. Then the Oilers took the lead on the first shot on goal of the game, when Nurse stepped into a pass from McDavid and let the puck fly from the top of the left circle past goalie Devan Dubnyk’s glove.“This was the quietest that I’ve heard it in the first period, ever,” Boudreau said, “but we didn’t do anything to excite them Vladimir Tarasenko Jersey , either.”The Oilers started the day in 12th place, but they’re now only three points behind the Wild, who have yet to make clear to new general manager Paul Fenton whether they’re contenders this season or not.“Everyone wants to be here in this room and win, but if we keep putting up efforts like this, it’s pretty easy for the GM to make a phone call,” right wing Marcus Foligno said.NOTESHitchcock was struck by a loose puck on the ear at one point during the game and needed stitches. “My reflexes are a little slower I would say. That’ll teach me for looking for the next lineup change,” he said. … The Oilers made fourth-line center Kyle Brodziak, who has a minus-12 rating, a healthy scratch for just the second time this season and the first since Oct. 11. Rookie Colby Cave replaced him in the lineup. … The Oilers scored 14 goals in three games this season against the Wild, winning two. … Eriksson Ek has three goals in 36 games this season.UP NEXTOilers: Return home to face San Jose Saturday night, before beginning a three-game road trip to take on Eastern Conference teams.Wild: Play at New Jersey Saturday afternoon and Sunday afternoon in New York against the Islanders.