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The Toronto Maple Leafs' Mikhail Grabovski battles the Carolina Hurricanes' Ray Whitney during the first period of their NHL hockey game in Raleigh on Nov.

Leafs drop into last place Matt Cullen of the Carolina Hurricanes scores a second-period goal against the Toronto Maple Leafs at the RBC Center on November 19, 2009 in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Kyle Okposo scored with 14.4 second left in overtime, and John Tavares had the first two-goal game to help the New York Islanders beat Carolina 4-3 on Friday night, extending the Hurricanes' winless streak to 14 games.

Randy Jones had a goal and an assist in his debut with Los Angeles, and the Kings beat Carolina 5-2 on Wednesday night to extend the Hurricanes' winless streak to 13.

Carolina Hurricanes' Tuomo Ruutu and teammate Joe Corvo leave the ice following their loss.

The Toronto Maple Leafs are no longer the worst team in the National Hockey League.

John Tavares scored in the shootout to give the New York Islanders their first victory of the season, 4-3 over the Carolina Hurricanes on Wednesday night.

"The knee feels better but I'll have to wait and see this afternoon," said Pitkanen, who practiced with the team for a third straight day.

It was a little over two months into his second tour of duty as head coach of the Carolina Hurricanes that Paul Maurice began to sense a collective turnaround.

It wouldn't surprise Carolina Hurricanes coach Paul Maurice or General Manager Jim Rutherford if the Tampa Bay Lightning orchestrated the season's biggest turnaround.

Forwards Brendan Morrison and Mike Knuble replace Sergei Fedorov and Viktor Kozlov.

It doesn't matter what team Ray Emery is playing for. The Carolina Hurricanes never seem to get anything going against him, and that made for a memorable debut with Philadelphia.

The Carolina Hurricanes look much like the team that won the Stanley Cup in 2006.

Brian Burke, the Anaheim Ducks general manager, wants to make one thing clear: he is not is not interested in becoming the general manager of the Maple Leafs if his counterpart in Toronto, John Ferguson Jr., is fired by the team.

The remaking of the Flyers' blue line continued Thursday when hard-edged defenseman Ole-Kristian Tollefsen agreed to a one-year contract worth $600,000. Two knee surgeries sidelined Tollefsen for all but 19 games last season, but the 25-year-old native of Oslo, Norway, passed a physical given by the Flyers on Saturday and is expected to report to ...

The Philadelphia Flyers signed defenseman Ole-Kristian Tollefsen to a one-year contract on Thursday.

The remaking of the Flyers' blue line continued Thursday when hard-edged defenseman Ole-Kristian Tollefsen agreed to a one-year contract worth $600,000. Two knee surgeries sidelined Tollefsen for all but 19 games last season, but the 25-year-old native of Oslo, Norway, passed a physical given by the Flyers on Saturday and is expected to report to ...

Head coach Claude Julien wasn't at Fenway Park on Wednesday afternoon for the long-expected announcement that his Bruins will host Philadelphia On Jan.

John Tavares signed a three-year entry-level contract with the New York Islanders, who took the 19-year-old standout first overall in last month's draft.

With Red Sox reliever Hideki Okajima playing catch in the outfield and a bright blue summer sky hovering over Fenway Park, Boston Bruins defenseman Aaron Ward stood on the infield of the major leagues' oldest ballpark and pretended to be miffed.