It was Ehlers\u2019 first hat trick with Carolina after signing a six-year contract as a free agent on July 3.<\/p>\n
Taylor Hall<\/a> scored twice, and Mark Jankowski<\/a> had a goal and two assists for the Hurricanes (29-15-4), who are 5-1-1 in their past seven. Andrei Svechnikov<\/a> and Alexander Nikishin<\/a> each had a goal and an assist, and Brandon Bussi<\/a> made 16 saves.<\/p>\n The Hurricanes scored four power-play goals.<\/p>\n Uvis Balinskis scored for the Panthers (24-19-3), who had won two in a row. Sergei Bobrovsky made 26 saves.<\/p>\n Ehlers put the Hurricanes up 1-0 at 18:35 of the first period. Jordan Staal held off Florida defenseman Gustav Forsling in the right corner before passing to Ehlers, who drove between the circles and scored on a snap shot.<\/p>\n Balinskis one-timed a shot near the top of the right circle to tie it 1-1 at 1:19 of the second period. The defenseman signed a two-year contract with Florida earlier on Friday.<\/p>\n The Hurricanes took a 2-1 lead at 13:10. Jankowski won a face-off and skated to the net, where he scored on a backhand tap-in off the rebound of Nikishin\u2019s shot.<\/p>\n Nikishin put Carolina up 3-1 with a power-play goal at 16:28, scoring on a one-timer off a pass from Sebastian Aho.<\/p>\n Svechnikov extended the lead with a power-play goal to 4-1 at 4:08 of the third period. Seth Jarvis made a touch pass from the goal line to Svechninkov at the left hash marks for a snap shot inside the right post.<\/p>\n The Hurricanes made it 5-1 at 11:17 on a 5-on-3 power play. Ehlers took a diagonal pass from Jarvis and scored short side.<\/p>\n Logan Stankoven passed to Hall for a net-front redirection for another power-play goal for a 6-1 lead at 11:38.<\/p>\n Ehlers completed his sixth NHL hat trick on a one-timer in the right circle off a pass from Stankoven to make it 7-1 at 13:03.<\/p>\n Hall scored blocker side at the top of the crease to make it 8-1 at 18:23, and Eric Robinson scored on a short breakaway at 18:35 remaining for the 9-1 final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was Ehlers\u2019 first hat trick with Carolina after signing a six-year contract as a free agent on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":683409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2075],"tags":[235,260,2567,7,6,236],"class_list":{"0":"post-683408","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-panthers","8":"tag-carolina","9":"tag-carolina-panthers","10":"tag-carolinapanthers","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-panthers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115908559952616225","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}