Arizona
Arizona Coyotes lose by 5 goals to Hurricanes
TEMPE, Ariz. — Sebastian Aho scored twice, Shayne Gostisbehere had a power-play objective towards his former crew and the Carolina Hurricanes beat the Arizona Coyotes 6-1 on Friday evening.
Paul Stastny, Jaccob Slavin and Martin Necas additionally scored for Carolina. Brent Burns had 4 assists and Necas and Andrei Svechnikov tallied two every. Antti Ranta had 17 saves because the Hurricanes acquired their fortieth win of the season to present them 88 factors and preserve their slim lead over New Jersey within the Metropolitan Division.
Lawson Crouse scored his twentieth objective for the Coyotes and trails solely Clayton Keller (25) for the crew lead. Karel Vejmelka completed with 36 saves.
Aho’s first of the evening made it 2-0 practically 9 minutes into the sport for the Hurricanes, who had misplaced their earlier two video games.
After Slavin pushed Carolina’s result in 3-0 early within the second, Crouse acquired Arizona on the scoreboard with 9:19 left within the center interval.
Gostisbehere, who was traded to Carolina on Wednesday for a 2026 third-round draft decide, performed in his first recreation for the Hurricanes. He scored on the ability play with Arizona’s Patrik Nemeth within the penalty field for hooking with 7 1/2 minutes left within the second to present Carolina a 4-1 lead.
Aho’s second of the sport and twenty seventh of the season gave the Hurricanes a four-goal lead 2:11 later, and Necas acquired his twenty fifth for Carolina’s third-straight tally with the man-advantage at 1:47 of the third.
TRADES GALORE
Gostisbehere wasn’t the one participant leaving Arizona this week. The Coyotes despatched D Jakob Chychrun to Ottawa, and C Nick Bjugstad and D Cam Dineen went to Edmonton in one other rebuilding effort within the desert.
Earlier than Friday’s buying and selling deadline, the Coyotes traded Nick Ritchie and defenseman Troy Stecher to Calgary for Brett Ritchie and minor-leaguer Connor Mackey. In line with NHL stats, it’s the primary brother-for-brother commerce in league historical past.
The Hurricanes, making a bid for the Stanley Cup within the highly effective Jap Convention, picked up F Jesse Puljujarvi from Edmonton along with buying Gostisbehere. Puljujarvi was scratched on Friday, as had been Ritchie and Mackey for Arizona.
Michael Kesserling, a defenseman acquired this week by the Coyotes, performed in his first NHL recreation.
LOSING THE EDGE
Milos Kelemen, a defenseman recalled from Tucson earlier Friday to fill one of many spots vacated by a traded participant, blocked a Carolina shot together with his skate close to the blue line within the second interval, and the blade got here free. He was in a position to get to the bench and an official retrieved the free blade.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Coyotes: F Josh Brown (higher physique) remains to be sidelined. F Christian Fisher (sickness) missed his first recreation of the season.
NEXT
Hurricanes: Host Tampa Bay Sunday.