RALEIGH, N.C. — Michael Bunting had a aim and two assists, Brady Skjei added a aim and an help, and the Carolina Hurricanes matched their highest-scoring recreation of the season with a 6-3 win over the Vegas Golden Knights on Tuesday evening.
Andrei Svechnikov, Jordan Staal, Jesperi Kotkaniemi and Seth Jarvis additionally scored, and Sebastian Aho had three assists because the Hurricanes prolonged their level streak to 5 video games (3-0-2). Pyotr Kochetkov made 30 saves to earn his third victory in eight nights.
“It’s an easier sell when you get rewarded,” Hurricanes coach Rod Brind’Amour mentioned. “I think we’ve been playing well here lately.”
The Hurricanes have been 3 for 3 on energy performs and killed all 4 of the Golden Knights’ energy performs.
“You build momentum off the power play,” Bunting mentioned. “You can’t ask for anything more from special teams on our end.”
William Carrier had two targets and Nicolas Hague additionally scored for Vegas, which misplaced for the second time in three video games following a seven-game factors streak. Brett Howden had two assists. Logan Thompson gave up six targets on 28 photographs earlier than he was pulled with greater than quarter-hour remaining, and Jiri Patera stopped all 10 photographs he confronted.
PHOTOS: Bunting, Skjei lead Hurricanes to 6-3 win over Golden Knights
“In their power play, they just executed through and got shots from the elbows,” Vegas coach Bruce Cassidy mentioned. “We didn’t do a good enough job getting in shooting lanes, pushing it farther away from our net.”
Svechnikov, again within the lineup after lacking six video games with an harm, took his time after receiving a move from defenseman Skjei earlier than floating a shot previous Thompson to finish Carolina’s first energy play of the sport with 9 1/2 minutes left within the first interval. It was Svechnikov’s second aim of the season in his seventeenth recreation.
“I wasn’t sure how he would look,” Brind’Amour mentioned. “He was impactful. That’s what we were missing.”
It’s like a restart to the season that already was delayed for Svechnikov, who was coming off final season’s knee surgical procedure earlier than his newest ailment.
“I had some juice,” Svechnikov mentioned. “Trying to make the plays and make it easier on the boys.”
Carrier snapped a 20-game aim drought by pushing in a rebound after Brayden McNabb’s shot was blocked by Kochetkov, tying the rating 1-1. It was his fourth.
The Hurricanes have been in management after that.
Kotkaniemi had gone 10 video games and not using a aim till changing at 10:11 of the second interval. Bunting’s power-play aim got here 1:28 later. Jarvis and Skjei scored within the opening 4:44 of the third.
Vegas heart Jack Eichel’s franchise-record factors streak reached 11 video games as he assisted on Hague’s aim with 1:24 remaining.
Carrier completed the scoring with 32 seconds left for his fifth.
UP NEXT
Golden Knights: At Tampa Bay on Thursday evening.
Hurricanes: At Pittsburgh on Thursday evening.
