Seth Jarvis had a goal and two assists to lead the Carolina Hurricanes to a 5-1 win over the host Pittsburgh Penguins on Sunday afternoon.
Nikolaj Ehlers had a goal and an assist and Sebastian Aho, defenseman Jalen Chatfield and Mark Jankowski also scored for the Hurricanes, who have won four of their last five. Frederik Andersen made 18 saves.
Carolina was 3-for-5 on the power play.
Egor Chinakhov scored the lone goal for the Penguins, who had their four-game point streak (3-0-1) snapped and were playing the second of back-to-back games. They beat visiting Winnipeg 5-4 in a shootout on Saturday afternoon.
Stuart Skinner stopped 21 shots for Pittsburgh.
It was the third game between the two teams in 13 days.
Aho’s power-play goal just 47 seconds into the game gave Carolina a 1-0 lead. Aho leaped and knocked down a clearing attempt in the Pittsburgh zone with his glove to start the sequence. It ended with his shot from the high slot area deflecting off the stick of the Penguins’ Connor Dewar and past Skinner, who was screened by Hurricanes’ captain Jordan Staal.
The Penguins were limited to five shots in the first period and did not get their first until Andersen stopped Sidney Crosby’s attempt from just to the right of the crease with a little over eight minutes left in the opening period.
Ehlers’ power-play goal 6:24 into the second period made it 2-0. He scored on a one-time slap shot from above the high slot. Chatfield connected on a screened slap shot from the right point at 9:15.
Jarvis scored a power-play goal on a one-time snap shot from the slot with 2:40 left in the middle period to extend the lead to 4-0.
Chinakhov foiled Andersen’s shutout bid with 5:04 left.
Jankowski added an empty-net goal with 1:04 remaining.
Pittsburgh defenseman Ryan Shea did not play because of an upper-body injury and is day-to-day. The Penguins also sent Ville Koivunen to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the American Hockey League on Sunday.
–Field Level Media
