Nikolaj Ehlers collected the hat trick on Wednesday, powering the Eastern Conference-leading Carolina Hurricanes to a 6-4 back-and-forth victory over the last-place Vancouver Canucks.<\/p>\n
Sean Walker, Andrei Svechnikov and Sebastian Aho all collected one goal and one assist while Seth Jarvis registered a pair of assists for Carolina, which is on an 11-1-2 roll.<\/p>\n
Hurricanes goaltender Brandon Bussi made 18 saves to earn his 25th career win in his 29th NHL game. He is the fastest goalie in league history to reach 25 wins.<\/p>\n
Filip Hronek scored once in a three-point outing while Marco Rossi collected one goal and one assist for the Canucks, who are winless in seven games (0-5-2) and have managed only two victories in 23 outings (2-17-4).<\/p>\n
Brock Boeser and Nils Hoglander also scored. Elias Pettersson notched two assists.<\/p>\n
Starting goalie Kevin Lankinen was pulled after surrendering four goals on 22 shots. Nikita Tolopilo stopped nine of the 10 shots he faced but took the loss.<\/p>\n
Vancouver led 2-1 after one period before Walker kicked off Carolina\u2019s comeback and four-goal second period at 2:30. He buried a shot from near the left faceoff dot to tie the score.<\/p>\n
Ehlers put the Hurricanes ahead less than two minutes later when he finished a chance off the rush.<\/p>\n
Aho extended the edge at 11:53 of the middle period by lifting a backhand from the slot on another rush up ice, which spelled the end of Lankinen\u2019s action.<\/p>\n
Ehlers made it a 5-2 clash 57 seconds later with a short-side shot during a partial breakaway.<\/p>\n
To their credit, the Canucks fought back. Boeser pulled the hosts within a pair by burying a power-play goal with 43 seconds remaining in the second period, and Hoglander made it a one-goal game at 6:45 of the third with his first of the season.<\/p>\n
However, Ehlers sealed the game with an empty-net goal in the final minute, completing his seventh career hat trick.<\/p>\n
Despite being outplayed, the Canucks held the lead after the first period. After Svechnikov opened the scoring on the power play 77 seconds in by burying a one-timer from the slot, Vancouver responded with a pair of goals 44 seconds apart late in the period.<\/p>\n
Rossi tied the clash with a power-play goal at 16:31, and then Hronek blasted home a one-timer from the right circle.<\/p>\n
Vancouver, which sits last in the league standings, traded away defenseman Tyler Myers earlier in the day. The Canucks received two draft picks from the Dallas Stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nikolaj Ehlers collected the hat trick on Wednesday, powering the Eastern Conference-leading Carolina Hurricanes to a 6-4 back-and-forth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5107],"tags":[194,29,5176,5,195,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-486559","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-hurricanes","8":"tag-carolina","9":"tag-carolina-hurricanes","10":"tag-carolinahurricanes","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-hurricanes","13":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116175522184329181","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}