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Injuries and a struggling offense have led to the Carolina Hurricanes posting their worst start in franchise history. Air Max 270 Cheap Sale . The Hurricanes hope to bounce back quickly and earn their first win of the campaign tonight as they visit the Edmonton Oilers. The Oilers lost their first five games (0-4-1) of the season, including the opener of a seven-game homestand on Oct. 17, but have rebounded to win two straight. They have picked up wins over Tampa Bay and Washington, both by a 3-2 score, most recently topping the Capitals on Wednesday. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Justin Schultz and Nikita Nikitin all scored and Ben Scrivens made 13 of his 32 saves in the third period to win his second straight outing. I havent done anything different the last two games. Were just starting to get bounces, Scrivens said. Scrivens has allowed only five goals in his last three starts after giving up 14 over his first three appearances. He is 1-2-0 with a 2.38 GAA and .933 save percentage in three previous starts against the Hurricanes. The Oilers won both of their meetings against the Hurricanes last season and have won four of the last six encounters in Edmonton. Carolina remains without Jordan Staal, Eric Staal and Patrick Dwyer due to injury and has also seen Jeff Skinner, Nathan Gerbe and John-Michael Liles sit out at times this season. The Hurricanes have lost 24 man games to injury through six contests, part of the reason they are 0-4-2. The other reason is the fact that the Canes have scored only two goals in their past three outings and they officially got off to their worst start in club history with last nights 5-0 setback in Calgary. Cam Ward allowed all five goals on 24 shots as Carolina surpassed five-game winless streaks set in 1987-88 and 2003-04. It got away from us, Carolina head coach Bill Peters said. There were too many freebies, too many easy goals, and too much time and space. Its not the way weve played up to this point. Carolina concludes a five-game road trip on Tuesday in Vancouver -- a game in which Eric Staal may return for -- and Peters is likely to go with Anton Khudobin in net tonight. Khudobin is 2-1-0 with a 1.40 goals against average and .960 save percentage in three games versus the Oilers, including two starts. Oilers Projected Lines Forwards Hall - Nugent-Hopkins - Eberle Perron - Draisaitl - Purcell Pouliot - Arcobello - Yakupov Hendricks - Gordon - Joensuu Defence Nikitin - Schultz Marincin - Fayne Ference - Petry Goaltender Scrivens Air Max 270 Cheap Wholesale . -- Steven Stamkos scored his first goal since returning from a major injury, Ryan Callahan had his first goal with Tampa Bay, and the Lightning beat the Florida Panthers 5-4 on Thursday night. Air Max 270 Sale Online . -- The defending Canadian womens curling champions squandered an opportunity to take sole possession of first place in the standings Tuesday at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts.Chapel Hill, NC (SportsNetwork.com) - Brice Johnson posted 18 points and 14 rebounds as 15th-ranked North Carolina kept up its strong recent play with a 78-74 victory over Florida State. Marcus Paige added 19 points and Justin Jackson put up 14 in the Tar Heels ninth triumph in their last 10 outings. North Carolina (16-4, 6-1 ACC) will take a five-game win streak into a difficult upcoming stretch against Syracuse, Louisville and No. 2 Virginia. I think we are getting tougher and tougher every day, said Tar Heels center Kennedy Meeks, who finished with 12 points. We have a lot of guys out, so we are just trying to bring it together, really grind it out in practice and focus on what Coach (Roy Williams) is saying. Florida State (10-10, 2-5) hung tough for most of the afternoon, with Xavier Rathan-Mayes career-high 35 points keeping the Seminoles in it, before ultimately being dealt its fourth loss in its last five in ACC play. Though the Tar Heels were in front most of the way, their lead was just 67-63 with under five minutes remaining after Rathan-Mayes knocked down jumpers on consecutive possessions. The teams then traded free throws before North Carolina began to draw clear down the stretch. Jackson tipped in a Paige miss and J.P. Tokoto followed with a successful midrange shot after Rathan-Mayes missed a 3-point try, with the basket extending the lead to 71-63 with 2:57 to go. Florida State came up empty on its next four trips down the court as well, and the margin was 10 when Meeks scored inside for UNC with 46 seconds left. Defensively, we did everything we could to try to keep the ball out of the post, Seminoles head coach Leonard Hamilton said. There were a couple of occasions where they threw it over the top and got some easy buckets. I thought those two thinngs are where we fell short. Air Max 270 Wholesale. Rathan-Mayes buried a trio of 3-pointers thereafter, however, with the final one trimming FSUs deficit to 75-72 before Paige helped seal the outcome by making a pair of foul shots with 16 seconds to play. He was a difficult guy for us to guard, Tar Heels head coach Roy Williams said of Rathan-Mayes. Sometimes hed come off the screen and a big guy would be there, and the next time he would refuse a screen and beat a defender back to the basket. The Tar Heels opened up a 21-12 advantage nearing the midway mark of the first half after Paige scored the final five points of a 9-1 run, and the differential was 11 points when Tokotos bucket with five minutes left in the period put North Carolina up by a 30-19 count. Florida State then began to heat up offensively, hitting three straight shots to finish off a 12-3 spurt. The last of those makes, a 3-pointer from Devon Bookert, pulled the Seminoles within 33-31 prior to Jacksons jumper in the final minute that sent North Carolina into the break ahead by four. A 6-0 stretch staked the Tar Heels to a 54-45 lead with under 10 1/2 minutes remaining, and owned a 63-54 edge until another Booker trey ignited a 7-2 FSU flurry. Game Notes Rathan-Mayes previous career high was 26 points, set against the Citadel on Nov. 25 ... Johnson finished 7-of-9 from the field ... Tar Heels guard Nate Britt, questionable coming into the game after he sustained a lacerated lip that required 15 stitches in Wednesdays win at Wake Forest, did play and scored four points in 14 minutes ... North Carolina improved to 10-0 when Jackson scores in double figures ... The Tar Heels improved to 19-4 all-time against Florida State in Chapel Hill and have won five straight overall in the series. ' ' '