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PHILADELPHIA (AP) A crucial victory kept the Flyers in control of their own playoff destiny.Jakub Voracek scored with 5:45 left in the third period to lift playoff-chasing Philadelphia over the Carolina Hurricanes 4-3 on Thursday night.Claude Giroux Custom Calgary Flames Jerseys , Ivan Provorov and Michael Raffl also scored for Philadelphia, which began play holding the second and final wild card, four points ahead of Florida. The Flyers would have clinched a playoff spot if Boston beat the Panthers, but Florida topped the Bruins 3-2 later Thursday.Philadelphia can secure a playoff spot in its final regular-season game on Saturday with a victory over the Rangers or an overtime loss. A Florida loss in either of its final two games, Saturday against Buffalo and Sunday at Boston, also would send Philadelphia to the postseason.”We got the job done tonight,” Flyers coach Dave Hakstol said. ”Now we have a big one Saturday afternoon.”The Flyers seemed in great shape when Giroux put them up 3-2 with 9:42 remaining behind a wrist shot that beat goalie Scott Darling. It extended the Flyers captain’s career-high totals to 31 goals and 98 points. Flyers fans shouted ”M-V-P!” `’M-V-P!” when Giroux was shown on the video board following the tally.The Hurricanes erased the lead when Brian Elliott let in his second soft goal of the game, this one Jordan Staal’s backhander from a sharp angle near the side boards with 6:19 left.Elliott returned to work after missing the last 25 games following core muscle surgery on Feb. 13. Elliott www.officialhurricanes.com , who was injured on Feb. 10, entered 21-11-7 with a 2.72 goals-against average and .908 save percentage this season. He finished with 19 saves.”It’s almost like opening-night jitters again,” Elliott said. ”It’s hard to replicate a game in practice.”Voracek scored on a wrist shot from a sharp angle that got past Darling’s left shoulder.It was enough to send the Flyers to victory.”We battled hard, we grinded it out and we played the right way,” Giroux said.Philadelphia’s captain is feeling good about his team’s chances in their final – and most important – game.”We like the way we’re playing right now,” he said. ”Everybody is doing their job, doing what they’re best at. Normally when you do that, you get wins.”Klas Dahlbeck and Sebastian Aho also scored for Carolina Carolina Hurricanes T-Shirts Authentic , which has lost three straight and four of five. The Hurricanes had already been eliminated from playoff contention.”We got better as the game went on and more competitive as the game went on,” Hurricanes coach Bill Peters said.The Flyers dominated the opening 10 minutes, outshooting Carolina 13-3, but couldn’t get on the board. The Hurricanes finally struck with 6:15 left in the first when Dahlbeck netted his first goal in his 32nd game of the season and just the sixth in his 169-game career.Raffl answered 53 seconds later when he banged home a shot in front after Giroux’s pass was intercepted by Carolina’s Justin Williams but went fortuitously to Raffl in front of the net.The Hurricanes quickly broke the tie when Aho scored on a backhander from a sharp angle to the right of Elliott 14 seconds after Raffl’s tally. The goal was a soft one for Elliott.Philadelphia scored the only goal in the second period when Provorov finished an excellent pass from Sean Couturier right in front of Darling to tie it at 2. The tying score came after some near misses in the period for Philadelphia, as Jori Lehtera hit the post from close range and Voracek missed a golden opportunity from Darling’s doorstep two minutes later.NOTES: Giroux has five goals and 10 assists during a nine-game point streak. … Aho extended his team-leading totals to 29 goals and 65 points. … Couturier and Shayne Gostisbehere each had two assists.UP NEXTHurricanes: Host Tampa Bay on Saturday night to end regular season.Flyers: Host Rangers on Saturday to finish regular season.— SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida Panthers bounced back from a crushing loss in a big way.Aleksander Barkov set a franchise record with five assists, and defensemen MacKenzie Weegar and Mike Matheson each scored twice as the Panthers beat the Minnesota Wild 6-2 on Friday night to snap a six-game losing streak.The Panthers lost 4-3 in Boston on Thursday night when the Bruins scored twice in the final 37 seconds.“It was probably the toughest loss we ever had, 30 seconds away from a perfect 60-minute game against a really good team Carolina Hurricanes Hoodies Authentic ,” Barkov said. “Coming here, we had two choices — either forget about the last game and play as hard as we could this game, or just feel sorry about ourselves. I think we really played our butts off and deserved the win.”Jonathan Huberdeau had a goal and three assists, Mike Hoffman also scored and Evgenii Dadonov added three assists. Sam Montembeault made 26 saves in his second career start for his first NHL win.“It’s great,” Montembeault said. “It’s obviously good to put it behind me. Now next game I can just go out there and play my game and not even think about anything.”Barkov appeared to have scored a goal as well, but it came a split second after the second period ended. He expressed appreciation to his teammates for helping him break the assists mark.“Of course, it’s a nice milestone,” Barkov said. “I just gave the puck to my own players and they scored. I’m thankful for them.”The line of Barkov Carolina Hurricanes Hats Authentic , Huberdeau and Dadonov combined for 12 points.“We needed that today,” Panthers coach Bob Boughner said. “We needed someone to put us on their back and carry us a little bit early and that was Barky’s line, for sure.”Weegar and Matheson’s two goals apiece marked the first time in Panthers history two defensemen scored two or more in the same game.Marcus Foligno and J.T. Brown scored for the Wild, who had their eight-game point streak stopped. Devan Dubnyk allowed three goals on seven shots before he was replaced by Alex Stalock to start the second period. Stalock stopped 19 shots.The Wild had beaten Tampa Bay 3-0 on Thursday night.“Obviously, we didn’t have the same kind of jump that we had against Tampa,” coach Bruce Boudreau said. “Those are the things that make coaches go nuts because we needed it and we didn’t show up.”Florida stretched its lead to 5-1 when Matheson scored with a wrist shot from the right circle at 17:40 of the second period. The Wild answered 15 seconds later on Foligno’s tap-in.Matheson’s second goal came on a wraparound at 10:23 of the third and made it 6-2.Hoffman’s one-timer from the right circle during a 5-on-3 power play gave the Panthers a 4-0 lead at 3:34 of the second.Brown deflected a shot by Jonas Brodin into the net to make it 4-1 at 9:02 of the second.The Panthers took a 3-0 lead on seven shots in the first period. They went up 1-0 on Huberdeau’s goal 61 seconds in. Barkov passed from behind the net to Huberdeau in front and he skipped the puck into the net.Weegar, who had one goal in 49 games this season, scored two in a span of 1:40.His first goal gave the Panthers a 2-0 lead when his wrist shot from the point bounced off the back of Minnesota’s Ryan Suter and across the goal line at 16:51.Weegar stretched it to 3-0 on his second goal Custom Carolina Hurricanes Jerseys , a shot from the top of the right circle that got past Dubnyk at 18:31.A potential goal by Aaron Ekblad midway through the first period was disallowed after Minnesota successfully challenged for offside. Barkov would have had another assist if the goal had counted.NOTES: Panthers G James Reimer returned after missing five games with a lower-body injury and backed up Montembeault, who is now a regular recall. The Panthers will go with three goalies the rest of the season. … Wild C Luke Kunin was scratched with an upper-body injury sustained in Thursday’s game at Tampa Bay.UP NEXTWild: Host the San Jose Sharks on Monday.Panthers: Host the Detroit Red Wings on Sunday.