The Carolina Hurricanes improved their record to 10-4-0 with a 6-3 win against the Buffalo Sabres on Saturday night at the Lenovo Center.
The victory gave the team three wins in a row and pushed them to a 5-1-0 record at home.
Once again the Canes spread out the scoring as they had six different goal scorers and 11 different players with points.
The first line opened up the scoring five minutes into the game when Andrei Svechnikov made a pretty pass to Sebastian Aho, who made no mistake.
Buffalo tied the game before the end of the period but the Hurricanes came out roaring in the second.
Svechnikov rifled in a powerplay goal to make it 2-1, then Jesperi Kotkaniemi scored his second of the season off a nice pass by Joel Nystrom. It was Nystrom’s first point of his NHL career.
Nystrom has been put into service because of Carolina’s injuries on the blueline and he has improved each game.
Just 29 seconds into the third, Eric Robinson made it 4-1, but then the Hurricanes took a breath.
Alex Tuch and Tage Thompson each scored to tighten things up but the home team tightened up the defense and scored two empty-netters to end the scoring.
Seth Jarvis scored the first one, his ninth of the season.
Charles Alexis Legault scored the next, a long one from his own end for his first career NHL goal.
Legault finished with a +2 and had two hits.
Carolina outshot Buffalo 35-22, led by Aho who had six shots.
Alexander Nikishin seemed to have a quiet game but led the team with 21:39 of ice time. He also had a team high four hits. The rookie had a +2 on the night pushing his season total to +13, which ties him for the league lead.
The Canes will quickly travel to Toronto for a match against the Leafs Sunday night.
Game Summary – https://www.nhl.com/scores/htmlreports/20252026/GS020238.HTM
Event Summary – https://www.nhl.com/scores/htmlreports/20252026/ES020238.HTM
