Sean Walker, Andrei Svechnikov and Sebastian Aho each added a goal and an assist for the Canes (39-16-6), while Seth Jarvis contributed a pair of helpers and Brandon Bussi stopped 18 of the 22 shots he faced.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Canucks (18-36-7) showed signs of life in the first period, taking a 2-1 lead with goals 44 seconds apart, then made it close with a late goal in the second and another midway through the third before Ehlers sealed the win with 14 seconds left on the clock.<\/p>\n
Filip Hronek registered a goal and two assists for Vancouver, while Marco Rossi notched one of each. Brock Boeser and Nils Hoglander also scored, and Elias Pettersson had two helpers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kevin Lankinen allowed four goals on 22 shots before getting the hook midway through the second. He was replaced by Nikita Tolopilo, who made nine saves in relief.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The result stretched Vancouver’s losing skid to seven games (0-5-2). The team has two wins in its last 23 outings (2-17-4).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Canucks: Took advantage of an extended stretch of 5-on-3 play late in the second period to cut the deficit to 5-3. \u2026 Played without bruising winger Evander Kane, who general manager Patrik Allvin said was recovering from the flu. \u2026 Dealt veteran defenceman Tyler Myers to the Dallas Stars for a pair of future draft picks earlier in the day.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hurricanes: Dominated from the outset, drawing a penalty in the opening minute and scoring a power-play goal 1:17 into the game. \u2026 Outshot Vancouver 12-1 over the opening nine minutes.<\/p>\n
The Hurricanes retook the lead at the 4:19 mark of the second when Ehlers collected a stretch pass from Jordan Staal, faked a shot from the top of the circle, then skated in and fired the puck in past Tolopilo to make it 3-2.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Canucks went 2-for-4 with the man advantage on Wednesday after going eight games without a power-play goal.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Canucks: Visit the Blackhawks in Chicago on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hurricanes: Face the Oilers in Edmonton on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sean Walker, Andrei Svechnikov and Sebastian Aho each added a goal and an assist for the Canes (39-16-6),…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-520004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}