Ed Belfour made 35 saves and Jozef Stumpel scored two goals to help the Florida Panthers beat the Rangers 4–2 last night for their first road victory of the season.

Coming off consecutive losses to Atlanta, the Panthers improved to 1–4–1 on the road and 5–5–1 overall. The Rangers, idle since winning a shootout in Toronto on Saturday night, lost for the fifth time in its last seven games to fall to 4–5–0.

Juraj Kolnik and Gregory Campbell also scored for Florida.

The 41-year-old Belfour, 2–2–0 in his first season with Florida, allowed Petr Prucha‘s power-play score early in the second period and Martin Straka’s goal off an uncontested close-range shot with 6:50 left in the game.

Stumpel opened the scoring with a power-play goal in the first period and sealed the victory with 3:29 remaining with his fifth goal of the season.

Kolnik gave the Panthers a two-goal lead at 6:32 of the third period after stealing Rangers defenseman Michal Rozsival’s backhand pass attempt along the boards. Kolnik broke in alone on goalie Henrik Lundquist, faked him out of position and easily forehanded the puck into the empty net for his fourth goal of the season.

Campbell gave Florida a 2-1 lead at 4:10 of the second period, tipping Rostislav Olesz’s high shot past Lundquist just 36 seconds after Prucha tied it with his first goal of the season. Prucha, a 30-goal scorer last season as a rookie, beat Belfour off Brendan Shanahan’s rebound a second after a two-man advantage ended.

Two nights after a special-teams meltdown in a 6–3 home loss to Atlanta, the Panthers killed Joe Nieuwendyk’s early hooking penalty and opened the scoring on Stumpel’s power-play goal. On Monday night, Florida allowed five goals in seven short-handed situations and failed to score on six power-play chances.