In Raleigh, the Carolina Hurricanes’ Andrei Svechnikov hit for a hat trick on Thursday night in a 7-2 thumping of the visiting Edmonton Oilers.
“It’s special for sure to be at home and score my 100th goal,” Svechnikov said. “It’s been amazing.”
Pyotr Kochetkov made 20 saves in the Canes win.
“I really liked [Kochetkov’s] game,” Carolina coach Rod Brind’Amour said. “He came in in a tough spot against a high-powered team and he made some huge saves. That’s the difference in the game there early and we kind of settled in.”
Carolina improved to 9-4-1.
Svechnikov opened the scoring in the first period for the Canes for a 1-0 lead.
Brent Burns pushed the lead to 2-0 in the middle frame.
Edmonton dropped to 8-7-0.
“This league is too hard to recover from self-inflicted wounds and I thought tonight there were a lot of self-inflicted wounds, pucks that were on our tape that we didn’t guarantee behind the other team’s defense that ended up coming back and biting us,” Oilers coach Jay Woodcroft said.
The Oilers finally got on the board in th4e second period when the puck deflected off Zach Hyman to cut the lead to 2-1.
Svechnikov and Jordan Staal extended the advantage to 4-1 before the end of the second.
Connor McDavid scored to get the Oilers back within two, at 4-2.
“I thought we got off to a good start, but giving up late-period goals hurts,” McDavid said. “We gave up one in the first, we gave up one in the second, and playing catch-up against a team like this is not easy. It takes a lot of energy to play catch-up. Obviously it’s not easy on anyone and we have to do a better job of not letting that happen.”
Jordan Martinook and Jesper Fast bookended Svechnikov’s hat trick goal for the 7-2 final in the third period.
Jack Campbell made 25 saves in the Edmonton loss.
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