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RALEIGH Philadelphia Flyers Hats Authentic , 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 Custom Philadelphia Flyers Jerseys , 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, 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 www.officialpenguinsproshop.com , 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, 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. WASHINGTON (AP) — Alex Ovechkin heard Capitals fans chanting, “We want 50!” after scoring his 49th goal of the season.“Next game,” Ovechkin said.The next game could bring milestones for Ovechkin and Washington, which beat the Carolina Hurricanes 4-1 Tuesday night to move to the verge of clinching a playoff berth. The defending Stanley Cup champions are a victory away from their 11th playoff appearance in the last 12 seasons.“That’s why we play 82 games, to clinch the playoffs,” Ovechkin said after adding to his NHL-leading goal total. “Both teams understand we need the points. I don’t know how the different teams played, I didn’t look at that Pittsburgh Penguins T-Shirts Authentic , but that was important.”The Capitals beating the Hurricanes in regulation and results elsewhere made it a great night for Washington and a bad one for Carolina. The Columbus Blue Jackets’ defeat of the New York Islanders allowed the Capitals to extend their lead atop the Metropolitan Division to three points, and that, coupled with the Montreal Canadiens’ victory over the Florida Panthers, allowed those teams to gain ground on the Hurricanes.“You can’t look for help,” Hurricanes captain Justin Williams said. “That’s not the way you do it.You take care of your own business and if someone loses, great. But you go into everything assuming you need to win because every other team is going to win, too.”Looking for their fourth consecutive division title, the Capitals again came away with two points when there was a chance they’d fall into second place.“We don’t care too much about the standings,” said goaltender Braden Holtby, who made 27 saves. “We’re focused on trying to win a game, so we’re not letting anything get in our head, saying we must win this or that or whatever.”Ovechkin’s go-ahead goal 4:31 into the third period put him one away from joining Wayne Gretzky and Mike Bossy as the only players in league history with 50 in eight different seasons. With his 656th career goal Pittsburgh Penguins Hoodies Authentic , the Russian superstar tied Brendan Shanahan for 13th on the all-time list, but has to wait for No. 50 this season.“It would be nice to get it,” Ovechkin said. “But we still have five games. I have lots of chances to score tonight, but finally I get one because I think last couple games I didn’t use my chances. It was important goal and I’m happy with the win.”Countryman Evgeny Kuznetsov assisted on goals by T.J. Oshie, Ovechkin and John Carlson to give him three on his bobblehead night. Nicklas Backstrom added an empty-netter as Washington won its second consecutive game.“I wish every player on the team have a night like that,” Kuznetsov said. “Bobblehead is special. Of course, when your organization does something for you and fans cheering for you, you want to give them back something. The best thing we give them the win.”The Hurricanes had their two-game winning streak snapped despite 24 saves from Petr Mrazek and a goal by Dougie Hamilton during a delayed penalty. Carolina still leads Montreal and Columbus in the race for the final two playoff spots in the Eastern Conference, but a flat effort Tuesday didn’t help.“They were good. We were not,” coach Rod Brind’Amour said. “Put those two together, and we really had no chance in that game. That’s what it felt like the whole way.”NOTES: Oshie’s goal was his 23rd of the season. … Hamilton scored his second goal in four games. … Capitals D Michal Kempny missed his third consecutive game with a lower-body injury that could sideline him for the remainder of the season.UP NEXTThe Capitals open a three-game road trip when they visit the Hurricanes on Thursday in the second half of the teams’ home-and-home series.