“In the first period, [Aho] made a few nice plays,” Carolina coach Rod Brind’Amour said. “That’s the whole key. When you can get out front, the other team has to do things a little differently. That’s why you see those odd-man rushes. We were able to capitalize on those. That’s where the game was won.”
The Canes moved to 39-19-6off their third straight win.
Carolina took a 2-0 lead in the opening stanza.
Jordan Martinook opened the scoring at 6:30 for a 1-0 lead to the Canes.
Aho picked up his marker at 17:43 for a 2-0 advantage.
“You feel bad for [Vladar],” the Flames’ Blake Coleman said. “He hasn’t been in the net much lately, and he gets hung out to dry all night long. We just got outplayed, outcompeted, everything. Just an awful effort all around.”
The Flames dropped to 31-28-5.
“It was one of those games you’re not going to take a lot from,” Calgary coach Ryan Huska said. “That wasn’t good. The skating wasn’t good, game plan wasn’t good. It was everything.”
The middle frame started like the first, Jalen Chatfield hit with 17 seconds gone in the period for a 3-0 advantage to Carolina.
Svechnikov scored off an odd man rush at 1:15 to balloon the lead to 4-0..
“We just wanted to keep rolling and playing our game,” Svechnikov said. “We just feel so much confidence. We were just kind of controlling the game.”
Calgary finally got on the board at 4:11 off a goal from Dryden Hunt for a 4-1 score, hitting off another odd man rush in the game.
Carolina replied to that goal with a marker from Brent Burns at 13:55 for a 5-1 lead to the Canes.
Seth Jarvis scored with 34 seconds left in the middle frame for a 6-1 lead to Carolina headed to the third period.
Calgary’s Yegor Sharangovich scored at 4: to make it 6-2 for the Canes.54
Teravainen added the salt to the wounds at 17:14, for the 7-2 final count on the scoreboard.
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