EDMONTON James Van Riemsdyk Jersey Womens , Alberta (AP) — Two players mired in major scoring slumps provided plenty of offense for the Edmonton Oilers on Monday.Milan Lucic and Zack Kassian each scored a pair of goals as the Oilers defeated the Buffalo Sabres 7-2.“It feels good as an individual to pop a couple tonight, but the most important thing is that we got the two points in the standings,” said Lucic, who had two goals in the entire calendar year of 2018. “I’m not even going to go into 2018, there is lots to play for in 2019 to get ourselves back in the mix and now it is about stringing a few wins together moving forward.”Kassian was also relieved to see a couple of goals go in.“It is nice to chip in two goals,” he said. “I don’t think I have ever had a stretch where I had gone 40-plus games and had only two goals before. It is nice to score goals, it’s the National Hockey League. Hopefully the floodgates open now.”Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl also scored for the Oilers, who have won two of their last three.Casey Mittelstadt and Evan Rodrigues scored for the struggling Sabres Matt Cullen Jersey Womens , who have lost three straight.“It seems like our mistakes right now, every single one ends up in our net,” Buffalo captain Jack Eichel said. “You know you’re going to make mistakes over the course of the game and the magnitude of the mistakes are probably too big.“It’s frustrating. It’s a rough patch for our group right now. We have to find a way out of it and we have to stick together.”The Sabres kicked off the flurry of scoring by making good on the first shot, exactly one minute in, when Mittelstadt tipped a shot past Oilers starting goalie Mikko Koskinen.However, Edmonton pulled even on the game’s second shot a minute-and-a-half later when a shot by Kassian ticked off a Sabres’ stick and past Buffalo netminder Carter Hutton.The Oilers also scored on their second shot, 50 seconds later, when Nugent-Hopkins deflected in a shot by Caleb Jones for his 15th of the season.Edmonton made it 3-1 before the game was even five minutes old when Tobias Rieder found Kassian in front and he scored his second of the game and fourth of the season into a wide open net.The Sabres got one back nine minutes into the first after a giveaway led to a goal by Rodrigues.The Oilers added to their total just 24 seconds into the second as McDavid shrugged off a trip for a clear breakaway, scoring his 28th of the season.Edmonton made it 5-2 five minutes into the middle frame when Lucic picked off a pass and scored.Linus Ullmark replaced Hutton in the Buffalo net.Lucic scored his second of the game four minutes into the third Derek Grant Jersey Womens , giving him three goals in his last four games after scoring only two goals in his previous 91 games.The Oilers continued their offensive outburst a couple minutes later when Draisaitl scored his 24th.NOTES: Oilers defenseman Oscar Klefbom (hand) is expected to soon have medical clearance to begin skating and is hopeful he’ll rejoin the team for practices ahead of the all-star break and make his full return after that.UP NEXTSabres: At Calgary on Wednesday.Oilers: At Vancouver on Wednesday. RALEIGH, 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 Erik Karlsson Jersey Womens , 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, 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 www.ducksshoponline.com , 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 Patrick Maroon Jersey Womens , 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.