Ilya Kovalchuk scored in the first minute of overtime, 27 seconds after Marian Hossa forced the extra period with a power-play goal in the Atlanta Thrashers' 3-2 victory over the Florida Panthers on Tuesday night.
Kovalchuk skated into the right circle when Todd White made a backhanded pass from the left boards.
He stopped quickly and fired the puck under goalie Craig Anderson's pads.
Atlanta's Pascal Dupuis (9) battles Cory Murphy for the puck on Tuesday.
(Gregory Smith/Associated Press)
Kovalchuk's NHL-leading 15th goal gave the Thrashers their fourth win in five games.
Florida has lost four straight and five of six.
The Thrashers had a two-man skating advantage for the final 1:09 of regulation after coach Don Waddell pulled goalie Johan Hedberg and Florida's Gregory Campbell was penalized for tripping.
Hossa was between the crease and the bottom of the right circle when Anderson stopped Kovalchuk's slap shot from the left circle.
Kovalchuk hit the puck so hard, however, that Hossa had little trouble tapping in the rebound for his seventh goal.
David Booth's fourth goal gave the Panthers a 2-1 lead with 4:39 left in the third.
Ville Peltonen opened the scoring with his fourth goal 7:16 into the first.
White made it 2-2 with his fourth goal 31 seconds into the second.
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