Summary Eric Staal, Jordan Staal and Alexander Semin scored for the Hurricanes.
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Pascal Dupuis scored twice and Evgeni Malkin had a goal in his return to the lineup, leading the Pittsburgh Penguins to a 4-0 victory over the Winnipeg Jets on Thursday night for their 14th straight win.
Chris Kunitz had a goal and an assist and Sidney Crosby had two assists to push his league-best points total to 56 as the Penguins moved to within three victories of its own NHL record for consecutive wins.
Tomas Vokoun stopped 20 shots and even recorded his first assist while getting his 50th career shutout.
Al Montoya, making just his fourth start of the season, made 39 saves for Winnipeg but the Jets were no match for the NHL s hottest team.
The league record for consecutive wins was set by the Mario Lemieux-led Penguins in 1992-93, and appears to be in serious jeopardy.
Pittsburgh hosts the New York Islanders on Saturday and Buffalo next Tuesday. If the Penguins can handle a pair of Eastern Conference also-rans they could head to New York to face the Rangers April 3 with a chance to tie the record.
Kunitz put the Penguins in front 15:03 into the first period, though the play was all Crosby, who flicked a no-look backhand pass from behind the net to Kunitz in the left circle. The puck somehow found its way through a pair of Winnipeg defenders and by Montoya for Kunitz s 20th goal of the season.
Malkin scored his first goal since March 4 when a centering pass from James Neal hit off the Russian s skate twice and rolled over Montoya s right pad.
Dupuis singlehandedly doubled the lead in the second period. He scored his 16th goal of the season off a feed from Kunitz then added his 17th later in the period when he faked a pass to Tanner Glass and fired a wrist shot over Montoya s glove. The short-handed goal pushed the lead to 4-0.
In Toronto, Joffrey Lupul scored the winning goal with 3:10 remaining, helping the Toronto Maple Leafs hold off a Carolina comeback and beat the Hurricanes 6-3.
Lupul raced past Joe Corvo and beat Justin Peters for his seventh goal this season, shifting the puck from his backhand before tucking the puck into the net.
Jay McClement sealed it with his sixth of the season on an empty-netter with 45 seconds to go before Nikolai Kulemin added his sixth with 3 seconds left also into an empty net. Tyler Bozak, Cody Franson and Dion Phaenuf also scored for Toronto.
Eric Staal, Jordan Staal and Alexander Semin scored for the Hurricanes.
Also Thursday, Ben Bishop turned aside 24 shots to earn his second career NHL shutout and the Ottawa Senators beat the New York Rangers 3-0, the New York Islanders had a 4-3 shootout victory over the Philadelphia Flyers and the Phoenix Coyotes scored six times in the opening period to cruise to a 7-4 victory over the Nashville Predators.
In other games Thursday, the Los Angeles Kings beat the St. Louis Blues 4-2, Jonathan Huberdeau and Mike Santorelli scored in the shootout to lift Florida to a win over Buffalo 5-4 and the Vancouver Canucks easily accounted for the Colorado Avalanche 4-1.
