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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Florida Panthers kicked off their longest road trip of the season with another victory.Aaron Ekblad and Evgenii Dadonov scored goals Jeff Carter Jersey , Roberto Luongo made 29 saves and the Panthers beat the Philadelphia Flyers 2-1 Tuesday night for their fifth straight win.“It’s starting to feel like toward the end of last season,” Luongo said, referring to a five-game winning streak that concluded a year in which the Panthers missed the playoffs. “We’re confident we can get a win no matter the situation,”Jakub Voracek had the lone goal for the Flyers, who had won three straight and five of six.Both teams have rebounded nicely after struggling early in the season. The Panthers are 7-5-3, while the Flyers are 9-8-1.Just eight seconds after Voracek tied the game, Luongo stoned him on a breakaway after Nolan Patrick won the face-off. Oskar Lindblom hit a post on a shot a few minutes later for Philadelphia.“I thought I had him but I was unlucky http://www.kingsproshop.com/authentic-jonathan-quick-jersey ,” Lindblom said.Down 2-0 after two periods, the Flyers came out with energy to start the third. Voracek snapped a shot from the right side past Luongo for his fifth goal to cut the deficit in half.But they couldn’t get another one past the veteran.“They made a strong push, they were flying all over the ice and had us on our heels but Lu made a couple big saves,” Florida’s Mike Hoffman said.Ekblad scored his first goal this season to give the Panthers a 1-0 lead almost midway through the second period. Shortly after Ivan Provorov’s tripping penalty gave Florida a power play, Frank Vatrano deflected Hoffman’s slap shot and the puck trickled to the left side of the net. Ekblad flipped a backhander that hit goaltender Brian Elliott’s stick and glove before going into the net.“I was just trying to whack it toward the next and got lucky,” Ekblad said. “It has been a while. I never waited this long to score a goal at any level. It’s tough to stay resilient.”Hoffman has a point in 13 straight games, tying Pavel Bure’s franchise.Dadonov made it 2-0 late in the second period on his eighth goal. He skated from his blue line up the ice and fired a wrister from just outside the right circle into the top shelf.“They’re a good Nate Thompson Jersey , underrated team,” Flyers captain Claude Giroux said.NOTES: The Flyers beat the Panthers 6-5 in a shootout on Oct. 16. The teams meet one more time. … Panthers began a season-high six-game road trip. … Flyers played the middle game of a five-game homestand. … Dadonov has four goals in the last six games. He has six goals in seven career games against Philadelphia. … Ekblad hadn’t scored a goal since March 29 last season, when he recorded his career-best 16th goal. … Dadonov’s points streak has reached 12 games.… Florida has a power-play goal in six straight games.UP NEXTPanthers: Continue road trip at Columbus on Thursday night.Flyers: Continue homestand against New Jersey on Thursday night. DETROIT (AP) — Andreas Athanasiou has become a more consistent player this season, and the score sheet is starting to reflect it.Athanasiou tied it midway through the third period and scored 49 seconds into overtime to lift the Detroit Red Wings over the Boston Bruins 3-2 on Wednesday night.The 24-year-old Athanasiou leads Detroit with nine goals, including five with three assists in his past six games.“Early in the season he wasn’t getting points, but he probably deserved more,” Red Wings coach Jeff Blashill said. “I think from Day 1 Authentic Oscar Fantenberg Jersey , he’s been very engaged. I thought his first practice in training camp was excellent. I think he’s carried that forward.”It was the Red Wings’ fifth comeback win in their last seven games.“I think our starts aren’t very good and we know that. It’s something we need to work on,” said Tyler Bertuzzi, who also scored. “But it shows what we have in this room to bounce back from being down and come back in games like this.”Jimmy Howard stopped 34 shots for Detroit, which has won nine of 11 and is over .500 (10-9-2) for the first time this season.Jakob Forsbacka Karlsson and Chris Wagner scored for Boston, which lost for only the third time to the Red Wings in the last 18 meetings (15-1-2). Tuukka Rask made 24 saves.“We had a lot of opportunities, but we didn’t take advantage of them,” Bruins coach Bruce Cassidy said. “There were too many times where we tried to make a pretty play or a fancy play instead of making the simple play and putting the puck on net.”Athanasiou got control of a loose puck in the slot during overtime Tanner Pearson Jersey , spun around and beat Rask.“It was kind of just a scrum and the puck was just bouncing and I just turned and shot it,” Athanasiou said. “I don’t know where it went, but (I’m) happy it went in.”Athanasiou tied it 8:59 into the third when he put in the rebound of Gustav Nyquist’s shot from the left circle off the rush.Wagner made it 2-1 6:45 into the third when he tipped Sean Kuraly’s shot. It was Wagner’s second goal.Forsbacka Karlsson gave the Bruins a 1-0 lead 4:08 into the second period when he put in a loose puck from a goal-mouth scramble. It was Forsbacka Karlsson’s second goal.Bertuzzi tied it at 1 9:48 into the middle period when he tipped defenseman Nik Jensen’s shot between Rask’s pads. It was Bertuzzi’s sixth goal.NOTE: Boston D Kevan Miller returned after missing 13 games with a hand injury. … The Bruins were without several key players due to injuries including star C Patrice Bergeron (rib/sternoclavicular), D Zdeno Chara (lower body) and D Charlie McAvoy (concussion). … LW Thomas Vanek returned for Detroit after missing eight games with a knee injury. … The Red Wings recalled C Christoffer Ehn from AHL Grand Rapids.UP NEXT:Boston: Hosts Pittsburgh on Friday night.Detroit: Visits Washington on Friday.