Hurricanes hang on, hand Flames 1st regulation loss

Hurricanes hang on, hand Flames 1st regulation loss

Necas has goal, assist for Carolina; Vladar makes 39 saves for Calgary

Hurricanes at Flames| Recap

CALGARY — Martin Necas had a goal and an assist, and the Carolina Hurricanes held on to end the Calgary Flames’ season-opening six-game point streak with a 4-2 win at Scotiabank Saddledome on Thursday.

Seth Jarvis, Jack Roslovic and Eric Robinson scored for the Hurricanes (4-2-0), who have won four of five. Pyotr Kochetkov made 29 saves.

Jonathan Huberdeau and Jake Bean scored, and Dan Vladar made 39 saves for the Flames (5-1-1), who last had a six-game point streak as part of a franchise-best 12-game run (10-0-2) in Atlanta in 1978-79.

Jarvis put Carolina up 1-0 with a power-play goal at 12:29 of the first period. He took a pass at the bottom of the right circle from Sebastian Aho before skating out and beating Vladar with a short side wrist shot over his blocker.

Roslovic made it 2-0 when he slid in a rebound on Brent Burns’ initial point shot by Vladar’s left pad 41 seconds into the second period.

Necas pushed it to 3-0 at 1:59. He corralled a long rebound and shot by Vladar’s glove from just inside the top of the right circle.

Bean cut the lead to 3-1 at 13:01 when his wrist shot through traffic from the point beat a screened Kochetkov five seconds after a Mikael Backlund offensive zone face-off win.

Huberdeau made it 3-2 at 13:05 of the third period. Kochetkov stopped Rasmus Andersson’s point shot with his left pad, but Huberdeau scored on the rebound from the edge of the crease.

Eric Robinson scored into an empty net at 18:43 for the 4-2 final.