RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) 鈥 Teuvo Teravainen and Seth Jarvis each had a goal and an assist and the Carolina Hurricanes scored four goals in a 5:31 span in the first period in a 6-3 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday night.
The first-period spree set the tone as the Oilers never recovered.
鈥淲e haven鈥檛 had a game like that where we score on all our chances,鈥 Hurricanes coach Rod Brind鈥橝mour said. 鈥淚t was nice, obviously, to get those to go in and have them have to chase the game. That鈥檚 definitely the way to do it.鈥
Jesper Fast, Jack Drury, Martin Necas and Brent Burns also scored for Carolina. Jalen Chatfield had two assists.
Zach Hyman scored twice and Mattias Ekholm also had a goal for the Oilers, who dropped to 2-8 in road games. They鈥檝e lost three in a row following a three-game winning streak.
鈥淲e didn鈥檛 do ourselves any favours,鈥 Oilers coach Kris Knoblauch said. 鈥淲e made it hard.鈥
Both teams used two goalies, but for different reasons.
Carolina starter Antti Raanta left for precautionary reasons after the first period with an undisclosed ailment. Pyotr Kochetkov made saves on 13 of 15 shots across the final two periods.
鈥(Raanta) just felt something a little funny,鈥 Brind鈥橝mour said. 鈥淣othing serious, we didn鈥檛 think, but we didn鈥檛 want to take a chance. Just precautionary, really.鈥
Oilers starter Stuart Skinner was pulled with 5:12 left in the first period after Carolina鈥檚 fourth goal. It鈥檚 the first time Edmonton made an in-game goalie change since the season opener.
Connor McDavid set up Hyman鈥檚 second goal for his 10th tally of the season just 3:45 into the third, cutting the deficit to 5-3. The Hurricanes were scrambling for much of the final period until Burns鈥 empty-net tally.
鈥淭hat third period wasn鈥檛 great, but we got the job done,鈥 Jarvis said.
The Oilers are hoping to build off their third period, when they put 11 shots on goal and dictated pace.
鈥淲e played fast and aggressive and a lot of good plays,鈥 Knoblauch said. 鈥淲e have to have more of that.鈥
Carolina had 15 players with either a goal or an assist, marking the most on the scoresheet for the franchise since it relocated from Hartford in 1997.
Fast鈥檚 first goal in 13 games came 9:17 into the game. Just 35 seconds later, Drury notched his first goal of the season on a second effort from near the net.
The Oilers converted five seconds into a power play late in the first period on Hyman鈥檚 first goal of the night. That ended an 0-for-11 string on power plays covering the previous three games. Ekholm scored short-handed in the second period.
Chatfield鈥檚 contributions were notable as he has been a healthy scratch for the previous three games.
鈥淲e needed to get him going,鈥 Brind鈥橝mour said. 鈥淭ough to sit out for too long. He didn鈥檛 look like he missed a beat.鈥
UP NEXT
Oilers: At Washington on Friday.
Hurricanes: Host Tampa Bay on Friday night.
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