CALGARY Adidas Alex Galchenyuk Jersey , Alberta (AP) The Florida Panthers have been on quite a roll since the All-Star break.Mike Matheson scored twice, Aleksander Barkov had a goal and two assists, and the Florida Panthers beat the Calgary Flames 6-3 Saturday night for their seventh win in eight games.”We’ve been doing a lot better job of playing within our systems,” Matheson said. ”Early on in the year we were trying to get used to it a little bit. Since having a bit of time off at the All-Star break, I think we’ve been able to come back hard knowing we really can’t afford to be leaving points out there.”Article continues below ...Roberto Luongo stopped 30 shots in his first appearance since a groin injury on Dec. 4, and picked up his first win since Nov. 27.”Still not quite as sharp as I want to be, but for the first game back I thought it was pretty good,” Luongo said.Evgenii Dadonov and Vincent Trocheck each had a goal and an assist, and Jared McCann also scored to help the Panthers get their fifth straight road win.Florida went into the league’s four-day break 12 points out of a playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. They’ve cut the margin in half, now trailing the New York Islanders for the second wild card spot by six points.”Guys are playing like it’s our playoffs right now,” Panthers coach Bob Boughner said. ”We’ve got to just keep digging in and getting as many points as we can right now. We’re still in the thick of it and we have some games at hand.”Dougie Hamilton scored three goals for his first career hat trick for the Flames Adidas Barrett Hayton Jersey , who are 0-3-3 in their last six at home. It was the first three-goal game by a Flames defenseman since Al MacInnis in 1992.”Obviously a cool thing to do, but tough in a game like that,” said Hamilton, playing in his 400th NHL game. ”I’ve had two goals before and you always say to yourself, well maybe there’s a chance you can score a hat trick, but never did it. The last one I had that I remember was minor hockey. It’s been a while.”David Rittich started and gave up four goals on 15 shots before he was pulled early in the second period. Jon Gillies came on and stopped 13 of the 15 shots he faced.The Flames, the league’s second-best road team, just completed a 4-2-0 trip. However, they couldn’t carry that over in their return home.”What happened tonight is what everybody fears and talks about,” coach Glen Gulutzan said. ”You come home from a road trip, you have a successful road trip Adidas Michael Grabner Jersey , your first game back and every guy didn’t have enough to get us through this game.”Tied 1-1 after the first period, Florida blew the game open in the second with three goals in the opening 6:03.Trocheck completed a nifty give-and-go with Barkov by slipping a shot past Rittich at 58 seconds to put Florida ahead. With Barkov providing the screen, Dadonov deflected Keith Yandle’s shot past Rittich at 3:09 to make it 3-1. Barkov then gave the Panthers a three-goal lead at 6:03 as he redirected Dadonov’ shot between Rittich’s shot. Gillies came on after that.”We just weren’t executing,” Flames captain Mark Giordano said. ”It felt like we were a little bit off right from the start of the game.”Calgary pulled to 4-2 with 7:45 left in the second on Hamilton’s second power-play goal of the night.Matheson got his second of the game at 3:41 of the third, and McCann made it 6-2 just more than two minutes later.Hamilton capped the scoring with 8:05 left when he banked in a shot from the corner off the leg of Panthers defenseman Aaron Ekblad.NOTES: It was Rittich’s first start at home. His previous nine starts all came on the road. … Injured starting goalie Mike Smith (lower body) skated before the Flames’ game-day skate Saturday morning, but didn’t face any shots. His status remains day-to-day. … Hamilton played in his 400th NHL game. … Flames F Johnny Gaudreau snapped an eight-game scoring streak (four goals, seven assists). … Ekblad extended his point-streak to six games (three goals, five assists).UP NEXTPanthers: At Winnipeg on Sunday night.Flames: Host Boston on Monday. The old adage is that when a player is injured, opportunities for other players open up. Ryan Hartman has taken advantage of that situation for the banged-up Nashville Predators.Hartman will try to help the Predators to their fifth straight home win when they face the New Jersey Devils on Saturday night.Nashville (21-10-1) remains one of the league’s top teams in spite of a rash of injuries to key players. Viktor Arvidsson, who’s scored 68 goals since the start of the 2016-17 season, has been on injured reserve since Nov. 11 with a broken thumb and Filip Forsberg (team-high 14 goals this season) was placed on IR on Dec. 1 Adidas Marian Hossa Jersey , reportedly with a hand injury.Article continues below ...Hartman has moved into a spot on the top line and scored in Thursday’s 4-3 overtime win against the Vancouver Canucks. He is averaging nearly 18 minutes of ice time over the last seven games and being called upon more for special teams play.“You can see the poise that he plays with. He’s playing really confident right now, holding on to the puck and really seeing the plays unfold,” said Colton Sissons, who scored the game-winner and has three goals and two assists in a season-high four-game points streak.Hartman already has nine goals in 32 games after collecting 11 in 78 contests with the Predators and the Chicago Blackhawks last season.“The speed in which he’s playing, the offense in which he’s showing. He’s playing the game on the edge, but he’s staying disciplined, and so he’s doing a lot of good things out there with (Ryan) Johansen and (Kevin) Fiala,” coach Peter Laviolette said.Hartman downplayed his contributions.“I don’t really change the way I play really. I just try to be physical, get in on the puck and make plays. I don’t think anything really changes,” said the one-time first-round pick of the Blackhawks.Nashville is 4-0-3 in its last seven matchups with the Devils, who have lost 13 of 16 on the road this season.New Jersey (11-13-6) is in position for back-to-back wins for the first time since Nov. 13 and Nov. 15 after topping the Vegas Golden Knights 5-4 in overtime on Friday. The Devils rallied from two three-goal deficits before Nico Hischier’s game-winner in the opening minute of the extra session withstood a review.“We were down early Adidas Chris Wagner Jersey , but we stick to it, we battled hard and we came back,” Hischier said after lifting New Jersey to its first win in seven games that went past regulation in 2018-19.The Devils are 0-3-2 in the back ends of games on consecutive nights.“It’s time to put it to work on the ice and make the plays and execute. It’s not a matter of between the ears at this point,” center Brian Boyle said.Keith Kinkaid was pressed into service after Cory Schneider yielded three goals on seven shots in the opening 9:23. Kinkaid, who is expected to start Saturday made 32 saves in the Devils’ 4-3 overtime loss to Nashville on Oct. 25 in New Jersey. He’s been reached for at least three goals in seven of 10 road starts this season.Kyle Palmieri, who assisted on all three goals against the Predators, tallied his team-high 17th goal in Friday’s win. He has five goals and an assist in a four-game points streak.Devils winger Taylor Hall sat out Friday and remains day-to-day with lower-body soreness. The Hart Trophy winner leads the team with 23 assists and 31 points and needs one goal for 200 in his career.