In Raleigh, the Hurricanes took their shiny new roster out for a spin on Sunday, and throttled the Calgary Flames, 7-2.
A triplet of three-points games were collected by the Canes including Sebastian Aho, Andrei Svechnikov, and Teuvo Teravainen.
“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.”
Frederik Andersen made 18 saves in the win.
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.
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.
Teravainen added the salt to the wounds at 17:14, for the 7-2 final count on the scoreboard. 
Dan Vladar made 33 saves in the loss.
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