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RALEIGH, N.C. -- Jacob Slavin scored the deciding goal in the fourth round of the shootout to give the Carolina Hurricanes a 3-2 exhibition victory over the Washington Capitals on Friday night.Lee Stempniak and Noah Hanifin scored in regulation for Carolina, and Cam Ward stopped 22 shots through overtime.Jeff Skinner and Teuvo Teravainen also scored in the tiebreaker for the Hurricanes, and Evgeny Kuznetsov and Andre Burakovsky replied for the Capitals.John Carlson and Zachary Sanford 2:31 apart in the third for Washington to tie the score. Braden Holtby had 29 saves.Stempniak gave the Hurricanes a 1-0 lead about 5 1/2 minutes into the second as he was standing in front of the net to right of Holtby and swatted a pass from Jordan Staal out of the air and into the net.Hanifin doubled the lead on a power play at 5:40 of the third, firing the puck over Holtbys blocker into the top left corner of the net.Carlson got the Capitals on the scoreboard about five minutes later with a slap shot off a pass from Kuznetsov. Sanfords wrister with about 6 1/2 minutes left in regulation tied it.SVECHNIKOV, HOWARD LEAD RED WINGS IN WIN OVER MAPLE LEAFSAt Hamilton, Ontario, Evgeny Svechnikov scored twice to lead the Detroit Red Wings to a 2-1 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs.Jimmy Howard stopped 18 shots to help the Red Wings improve to 5-1-1 in the preseason.Brendan Leipsic scored for the Maple Leafs, who were playing in Hamilton for the first time since 2005. Jhonas Enroth finished with 24 saves.Svechnikov gave Detroit the early 1-0 lead on a quick wrist shot past Enroth from the top of the slot. He was in position after leaving the penalty box and lingering the 11 seconds needed for Nathan Paetsch to start the breakout along the boards to Drew Miller who hit him with a short lead pass.Leipsics first of the preseason tied it with 44 seconds left in the first period.Svechnikov scored his second of the night 4:39 into the second period.REINHART, KANE GET SABRES PAST SENATORSAt Ottawa, Ontario, Sam Reinhart and Evander Kane each had a goal and an assist to lead the Buffalo Sabres to a 4-2 victory over the Senators.Marcus Foligno and Derek Grant also scored for the Sabres, and Robin Lehner stopped 30 shots.Jean-Gabriel Pageau and Kyle Turris scored for the Senators. Craig Anderson, playing just his second game of the preseason, had 21 saves.The Sabres made it 4-1 midway through the third as Kane got a stick on a bouncing puck and put it past Anderson at 8:18.Turris pulled the Senators within two again with just over 8 1/2 minutes remaining as he beat Lehner high glove side.The Sabres opened the scoring midway through the first as Reinhart tipped Casey Nelsons shot from the point.Buffalo extended the lead to 3-0 less than 7 1/2 minutes into the second as Foligno and Grant scored 3:44 apart. Pageu deflected Tom Pyatts shot past Lehner 20 seconds later to get Ottawa on the board. Kevin Faulk Jersey . Boucher previously coached the Tampa Bay Lightning and had a 97-78-20 record over two-plus seasons. He was dismissed by the team last March after the Lightning struggled in the lockout-shortened season with a 13-18-1 record. 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SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Fresh off his teams sixth straight loss, San Francisco 49ers linebacker Aaron Lynch made a bold proclamation.We have the team. We possibly have one of the best teams in the NFL, Lynch said. Easily. Hands down.That might have been true just a few years ago when coach Jim Harbaugh had a roster filled with Pro Bowlers that helped San Francisco make three straight trips to the NFC title game and one Super Bowl appearance.But years of poor drafting by general manager Trent Baalke, a string of expected and unexpected retirements and a few other defections have decimated the roster and are a main reason why San Francisco (1-6) heads into the bye week on its longest losing streak in eight years and little sign of hope under first-year coach Chip Kelly.Whether its at inside linebacker where players such as Nike Bellore, Gerald Hodges and Michael Wilhoite have been overmatched following NaVorro Bowmans season-ending injury, receiver where castoff Jeremy Kerley leads the team in receptions; or quarterback where neither Blaine Gabbert nor Colin Kaepernick seem capable of success, the talent drain in San Francisco has been stark.Kelly still believes his staff has the pieces needed to contend in the NFC.Thats on us, he said. Our job is to put our players in position to make plays and were not doing a good enough job of that right now.While there are legitimate questions about whether Kellys up-tempo spread offense that was so successful in college will translate to the NFL and whether he is able to put together a strong enough defense, the problems in San Francisco predate his arrival.Harbaugh and Baalke struggled to work together despite the on-field success and owner Jed York picked Baalke in the power struggle.Baalke had been a scout and director of player personnel under Scot McCloughan as the Niners put together many of the pieces of the team that would be one of the most talented in the league.Baalke replaced McCloughan as the top front office executive shortly before the 2010 draft and came away with a load of talent led by Anthony Davis, Mike Iupati and Bowman. Baalke did well the next year as well when he took All-Pro pass rusher Aldon Smith and Kaepernick with his first two picks.The talent well went dry after that. Despite having 51 picks since 2012, Baalke has not added an impact player in any of those five drafts.Top two picks in 2012, A.J. Jenkins and LaMichael James, barely pplayed for the 49ers; 2013 first-round safety Eric Reid is a solid starter and second-round tight end Vance McDonald has contributed; running back Carlos Hyde, cornerback Jimmie Ward and Lynch are the only starters from the 2014 draft; and no one from the past two draft classes has shined yet.ddddddddddddBaalkes strategy of drafting injured players in hopes of finding value has backfired. Only two of the seven players he drafted the past four years coming off significant knee injuries have even played a game in the NFL this season.One of those players is 49ers linebacker Tank Carradine, who did not play a snap last week despite being healthy and dressed.The Niners have also been hurt by a string of early retirements, including Davis, Patrick Willis and Chris Borland.Perhaps the biggest issue with Baalkes drafting is hesitancy to take skill position players. Since missing badly with first and second-round picks on Jenkins and James, Baalke has had 15 picks in the first three rounds and used just one -- Hyde -- on a quarterback, receiver or running back.That was glaring this year when the Niners didnt take a quarterback until selecting Jeff Driskel in the sixth round. Driskel was cut before the season, Gabbert and Kaepernick have predictably struggled.Meanwhile, fourth-round pick Dak Prescott -- taken one round after San Francisco selected injured cornerback Will Redmond and two picks after the Niners took cornerback Rashard Robinson -- has Dallas off to a 5-1 start.San Francisco also didnt take a receiver this year until Aaron Burbridge in the sixth round and have one of the least talented groups in the league and also chose not to take an inside linebacker, which has proved costly with Bowman out for the season with an ruptured Achilles tendon and the Niners on pace to allow the most yards rushing in a season since 1980.That all adds up to a defense on pace to be the fourth in NFL history to allow at least 500 points in a season and an offense that ranks last in the league in yards per play (4.5).You dont go out there to lose and no one plans to lose, Reid said. Its frustrating. Any loss in general, its been rough. We know what we have to do, we just havent been doing it. Thats the most frustrating part.---Online:AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and www.twitter.com/AP-NFL ' ' '