Sebastian Aho registered two goals and an assist, Shayne Gostisbehere scored in his Carolina debut and the Hurricanes defeated the Arizona Coyotes 6-1 on Friday in Tempe, Ariz.
Brent Burns recorded a career-high four assists for the Hurricanes, who had lost two in a row. Carolina’s Martin Necas produced a goal and two assists, Jaccob Slavin had a goal and an assist and Antti Raanta made 17 saves.
Paul Stastny also scored and Andrei Svechnikov notched two assists for Carolina, which won for the sixth time in its past seven road games.
Gostisbehere, acquired Wednesday from the Coyotes in exchange for a 2026 third-round draft pick, netted a power-play goal and played 16:54 against his former team.
Lawson Crouse scored his 20th goal of the season for the Coyotes, who have lost four of their past five games, and Karel Vejmelka made 36 saves.
The Hurricanes, looking to bounce back from a 3-2 road loss against the Vegas Golden Knights on Wednesday, took an early 1-0 lead. Burns zipped a pass across the slot and Stastny fired into an open net just 2:20 into the first period.
Aho made it 2-0 at 8:57 of the first when he squeezed past a defender, skated in on a breakaway and scored through the five-hole after nearly losing the puck.
Slavin blasted in a one-timer off the post from the right point to make it 3-0 at 5:43 of the second period.
Crouse got Arizona on the board when he got to a loose puck in the slot, turned and fired a wrist shot past Raanta at 10:41 of the middle period.
Carolina then broke it open with a pair of power-play goals.
Gostisbehere made it 4-1, taking a pass from Necas at the point and skating into the left faceoff circle before firing a wrist shot. Aho scored his 28th goal of the season, this one from the right circle on a wrist shot at 14:37.
Necas scored the Hurricanes’ third power-play goal of the game at 1:47 of the third period on a one-timer from the left circle off a pass from Burns.
–Field Level Media
