Hurricanes cool off Flames with 4-2 win

The Carolina Hurricanes handed the Calgary Flames their archetypal nonaccomplishment successful regularisation this play with Thursday’s 4-2 triumph astatine the Saddledome.

Martin Necas had a extremity and an assist, Jack Roslovic besides scored, Seth Jarvis had a power-play extremity and Eric Robinson scored into an bare nett for Carolina (4-2-0).

Hurricanes goaltender Pyotr Kochetkov made 29 saves for the triumph and assisted connected Robinson’s empty-netter.

Sebastian Aho’s assistance extended his points streak to 5 consecutive games (two goals, 5 assists).

Defenceman Jake Bean scored his archetypal extremity arsenic a Flame and Jonathan Huberdeau besides scored for Calgary (5-1-1). Goalie Dan Vladar had 39 saves successful the loss.

Quick goals by Necas and Roslovic to commencement the 2nd play gave Carolina a 3-0 pb by 1:59.

Bean generated Calgary’s archetypal extremity of the crippled astatine 13:01 and Huberdeau struck astatine 13:05 of the third.

The visitors led 1-0 astatine 12:29 of the archetypal play connected Jarvis’ power-play goal.

Takeaways

Flames: Killing penalties successful the archetypal period, including a Carolina four-on-three, had Calgary relying heavy connected Vladar against 1 of the fastest teams successful the NHL. Flames pushed backmost to propulsion wrong a extremity with nether 7 minutes to play.

Hurricanes: Quicker puck question and a amended net-front beingness than Calgary. Held the Flames scoreless connected their 2 power-play chances successful the 3rd period.

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Key moment

The ‘Canes scored 2 goals successful a 78-second span starting astatine 0:41 of the 2nd play for a 3-0 lead.

Key stat

Carolina dominated violative portion faceoffs winning 70 per cent implicit the archetypal 40 minutes. The Hurricanes’ 2 speedy goals to statesman the 2nd play started with Aho and Jesperi Kotkaniemi winning offensive-zone draws.

Up next

The Flames are astatine location Saturday to the Winnipeg Jets. The Hurricanes proceed a six-game roadworthy travel against the Seattle Kraken connected Saturday.