NEW YORK, Oct 19: Radek Martinek scored his first NHL goal with 77 seconds left in overtime as the New York Islanders continued their surprising start with a 2-1 victory over the Carolina Hurricanes on Thursday.

New York improved to 6-0-0-1 and with 13 points is off to the best seven-game start in team history.

From behind the net, Shawn Bates passed into the low right faceoff circle to Martinek, a rookie defenseman who snapped a one-timer over fallen goaltender Tom Barrasso.

New York completed a sweep of the home-and-home series, posting a 4-0 win on Wednesday in Raleigh.

Barrasso kept the Hurricanes in the game in the first period, when he made 18 of his 35 saves.

The Islanders outshot the Hurricanes 19-2 in the opening 20 minutes but were blanked until red-hot Mark Parrish scored his league-leading ninth goal off a rebound with 6:57 remaining.

The Hurricanes settled down in the second period and tied it 95 seconds into the third on Josef Vasicek’s second goal of the season. It ended goalie Chris Osgood’s shutout streak at 101 minutes, 35 seconds.

In Calgary, Alberta, Jarome Iginla scored twice and Roman Turek made 19 saves to lead the Calgary Flames to a 3-1 victory over the anemic Florida Panthers.

The Panthers are winless in four games (0-3-1-0) since posting their lone victory.

Florida’s Valeri Bure and Calgary’s Rob Niedermayer sat out with knee injuries, missing their first chances to face their former teams.

The Flames traded Bure to the Panthers on draft day for Niedermayer and Jason Wiemer, who failed to get a point in his return to the Pengrowth Saddledome.

In Denver, Anson Carter scored two goals and set up another as the Edmonton Oilers discovered their power play and pulled away for a 4-1 victory over the Colorado Avalanche.

The Oilers had not scored a power-play goal in their previous three games and were just 4-for-41 with the man advantage this season.

But Edmonton converted twice during a three-goal second period and coasted to its second win in eight days against the defending Stanley Cup champions.

The Oilers are unbeaten in six of their last seven games (5-1-1).

Rob Blake had the lone goal for Colorado, which has lost three of four after opening the season with two wins.

Thursday’s results (home team in CAPS):

Pittsburgh 3 OTTAWA 0

NY ISLANDERS 2 Carolina 1 (OT)

DETROIT 3 Philadelphia 2

NEW JERSEY 6 San Jose 1

Chicago 5 NASHVILLE 3

DALLAS 3 Phoenix 1

CALGARY 3 Florida 1

Edmonton 4 COLORADO 1

Toronto 6 VANCOUVER 5

LOS ANGELES 4 Anaheim 1