{"id":679037,"date":"2026-10-05T04:42:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T04:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/679037\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T04:42:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T04:42:21","slug":"hurricanes-beat-flyers-3-2-in-ot-for-first-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/679037\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricanes beat Flyers 3-2 in OT for first win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (AP) \u2014 Sebastian Aho scored a pair of goals and assisted on Shayne Gostisbehere&#8217;s overtime winner as the Carolina Hurricanes beat the Philadelphia Flyers 3-2 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Gostisbehere, a former Flyer, scored on the power play, firing a slap shot past Philadelphia goalie Joseph Woll 2:51 into the extra period.<\/p>\n<p>Aho scored 10 seconds into the game on a pass from behind the net by William Carrier. He tied the score 2-2 in the third period with a power-play goal on a one-timer from Nikolai Ehlers. Pyotr Kochetkov had 16 saves.<\/p>\n<p>The win was the Hurricanes&#8217; first of the season after the Stanley Cup champions opened with a pair of losses, but it also matched an NHL record. It was the ninth consecutive season the Hurricanes have won their road opener, tying a mark set by the Flyers from 1980 through 1988. Carolina coach Rod Brind&#8217;Amour became the first coach to win nine consecutive road openers.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia dropped its third straight game to start the season for the first time since the 2014-15 season.<\/p>\n<p>Owen Tippett and Matvei Michkov scored for the Flyers. They were the first goals scored by Flyers forwards this season.<\/p>\n<p>Woll made 37 saves for the Flyers, who have been outshot 122-62 combined in their first three games.<\/p>\n<p>The game was the first meeting between Carolina and Philadelphia since the Hurricanes swept the Flyers in the Eastern Conference semifinals last season.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Hurricanes: Travel to Montreal to play the Canadiens on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Flyers: Start a three-game road trip on Tuesday against Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n<p>Follow us on Instagram at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/spectrumnews1nc\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">spectrumnews1nc<\/a> for news and other happenings across North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (AP) \u2014 Sebastian Aho scored a pair of goals and assisted on Shayne Gostisbehere&#8217;s overtime winner as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5107],"tags":[1250,1249,1251,194,29,5176,5,195,4,2668,43],"class_list":["post-679037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-carolina-hurricanes","tag-app-professional-sports","tag-app-sports","tag-associated-press","tag-carolina","tag-carolina-hurricanes","tag-carolinahurricanes","tag-hockey","tag-hurricanes","tag-nhl","tag-north-carolina","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/117386473874558919","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679037","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=679037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}