SUNRISE San Jose Sharks Hoodies Womens , Fla. (AP) — The Florida Panthers are happy to have Roberto Luongo back in net.Luongo made 26 saves in his second start since missing nine games with a knee injury to lift Florida over the Edmonton Oilers 4-1 on Thursday night.The Panthers won two games in a row for the first time this season. They beat Winnipeg 4-2 in Finland last Friday.The victory also marked Florida’s first in its home rink this season.“I just wanted to keep building off the last game and make sure that I gave my team a chance to win,” Luongo said. “It’s nice you get rewarded with a few goals there in the second period and in the third.”Luongo made several big stops early in the first.“He was the best player on the ice tonight,” Panthers coach Bob Boughner said. “I was a little leery about us starting slow in the first five or 10 minutes. He stopped two or three big-time chances. That’s what he does.”Evgenii Dadonov, Nick Bjugstad, Jonathan Huberdeau and Colton Sceviour scored for the Panthers. Mike Hoffman and Vincent Trocheck each had two assists.The Panthers defeated Edmonton at home for the first time since March 8, 2002, a span of 10 games.The Oilers have lost three straight overall.“You never want to lose three in a row San Jose Sharks Hats Womens ,” center Connor McDavid said. “Obviously, it’s frustrating but we have to regroup here.”Leon Draisaitl scored for the Oilers, and Cam Talbot stopped 29 shots.“I thought today we started well,” coach Todd McLellan said. “We had some opportunities early (but) Luongo made some good saves. We didn’t bear down.”The Oilers play three of their next four at home.“We have to come home now and put an end to this streak that we’re on,” McLellan said. “Good teams find a way to do that. We haven’t been able to do it on the road, so we have to do it at home now.”Edmonton closed to 2-1 on Draisaitl’s goal 23 seconds into the third period. Draisaitl redirected a pass from McDavid and beat Luongo up high.Huberdeau’s power-play goal from the left circle made it 3-1 at 3:43 of the third. Sceviour added an empty-netter with 49 seconds left.Dadonov gave the Panthers a 1-0 lead at 6:45 of the second. He took a backhand pass from Aleksander Barkov in front and slid the puck past Talbot while falling to the ice. Dadonov extended his point streak to a career-high nine games.Bjugstad found a loose puck in front and poked it into the net at 8:12 of the second.NOTES: Hoffman’s assist on Dadonov’s goal made him the fourth player in Panthers history to have a 10-game point streak. … D Mark Pysyk, who missed six games with an upper-body injury Custom San Jose Sharks Jerseys , was cleared to play but got scratched. … Edmonton has played six of its last eight games on the road.UP NEXTOilers: Host the Colorado Avalanche on Sunday.Panthers: Host the New York Islanders on Saturday. WASHINGTON (AP) The Washington Capitals put Evgeny Kuznetsov in the lineup for Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final against the Vegas Golden Knights on Saturday night and he didn’t miss a beat.The Russian star scored and added an assist in the Capitals’ 3-1 win that put Washington two wins away from the championship.”You play a little bit better when you’re hurt,” Kuznetsov saidThe leading scorer in the playoffs left Wednesday’s Game 2 clutching his left arm after a big hit from Brayden McNabb and did not return.Kuznetsov took part in an optional practice Friday and the morning skate Saturday and said the undisclosed upper-body injury ”feels better every day.” Coming into the game, Kuznetsov’s 25 points are the most of any player this postseason and he’s a weapon at even strength and on the power play even if he’s not 100 percent.”Kuzy’s a surprisingly tough kid,” Capitals defenseman Matt Niskanen said. ”He’s kind of a slender guy, wiry strong, but guys play through stuff all the time throughout the year and then especially this time of year.”Washington defenseman Michal Kempny was also in the lineup after a scare during pregame warmups. Kempny stepped on a puck, crashed into the boards and went off the ice for repairs before returning.Kempny and Kuznetsov were the last two players on the ice. The 26-year-old Russian center spent all the time allotted to him stickhandling and shooting to test the injury.”In these type of games you always want to play www.stlouisbluesteamshops.com , but you have to do better for your team and you have to understand it doesn’t matter who you are, what kind of player, you have to understand can you help the team or no,” Kuznetsov said earlier in the day. ”That’s the biggest part. You have to understand it and you have to communicate with the coaches, doctors and everybody, can you help the team?”—More Stanley Cup coverage: https://apnews.com/tag/StanleyCupFinals—