Flyers Remain the Only Unbeaten Team at Home

The team with the NHL’s best record finally found a way to beat the club with the worst mark.

Radovan Somik, Eric Weinrich and Chris Therien scored their first goals of the season to help the Philadelphia Flyers extend their home unbeaten streak to 13 games with a 5-2 victory Wednesday night over the Pittsburgh Penguins.

The teams tied twice earlier this season, once in Philadelphia and last week in Pittsburgh.

Jeremy Roenick and Mark Recchi also scored for Philadelphia, the only team in the NHL still unbeaten at home (11-0-2). The Flyers had their overall 12-game unbeaten run (10-0-2) end with a loss Monday at Ottawa.

Philadelphia Coach Ken Hitchcock said he knew the Flyers were going to win the game.

How did he know?

“Because we are a better team,” Hitchcock said. “We have more talent. We are deeper, we have a good work ethic. I knew we were going to win the game. Pittsburgh is not going to beat us at home.”

Nashville 2, Carolina 1 -- Scott Hartnell scored 3:30 into overtime at Raleigh, N.C., extending the Predators’ winning streak to a team-record five games.

Nashville won despite allowing 41 shots.

Ottawa 4, Florida 0 -- Backup goalie Martin Prusek stopped 30 shots for his first career shutout to help the Senators win at Sunrise, Fla. Prusek has given up one goal in two starts in place of Patrick Lalime, out with flu. Zdeno Chara had a goal and two assists, matching his career high of three points. Daniel Alfredsson, Jason Spezza and Martin Havlat scored the other goals.

Boston 6, Atlanta 4 -- Martin Lapointe scored the go-ahead goal in his 700th game, helping the Bruins beat the Thrashers at Atlanta. The Bruins weren’t called for a penalty for the first time since March 28, 2001, against the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Buffalo 3, Chicago 2 -- Dmitri Kalinin and Maxim Afinogenov scored third-period goals to lead the Sabres at Chicago.

Minnesota 1, Edmonton 0 -- At Edmonton, Canada, Manny Fernandez stopped 34 shots for his first shutout of the season and the Wild beat the Oilers, extending Edmonton’s winless streak to six games.

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Atlanta Thrasher Dany Heatley, who hasn’t played this season after being injured in a car accident that killed teammate Dan Snyder, has received 10,368 votes for the All-Star game.