The Carolina Hurricanes remain one of two undefeated teams left in the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs.<\/p>\n
The Hurricanes extended their second-round series lead over the Philadelphia Flyers to 3-0 with a road victory on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
Here’s a look at Thursday’s highlights and the upcoming schedule as the second round continues this weekend.<\/p>\n
Carolina Hurricanes 4, Philadelphia Flyers 1 (CAR leads series 3-0)<\/p>\n
Montreal Canadiens at Buffalo Sabres, 7 p.m. ET (BUF leads series 1-0)<\/p>\n
Vegas Golden Knights at Anaheim Ducks, 9:30 p.m. ET (Series tied 1-1)<\/p>\n
Hurricanes captain Jordan Staal took advantage of a first-period tripping penalty by Sean Couturier by opening scoring on the power play.<\/p>\n
Jaccob Slavin pulled a puck off the goal line to preserve the Canes’ lead before Trevor Zegras tied the game early in the second.<\/p>\n
Canes goaltender Frederik Andersen kept the score even with a highlight-reel stop on the Flyers’ Alex Bump later in the second.<\/p>\n
The Flyers had the chance to even up the game on a second-period power play, only to give up a shorthanded goal to the Canes’ Jalen Chatfield. <\/p>\n
Philadelphia was again unable to capitalize when given 1:15 on the two-man advantage later in the period.<\/p>\n
The Canes put the game out of reach with two third-period goals in a span of four minutes, including Andrei Svechnikov’s first tally of the playoffs and a breakaway score from Nikolaj Ehlers.<\/p>\n
The Flyers will be playing with their season on the line when the puck drops for Game 4 on Saturday at 6 p.m. ET in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n
Finding a way to activate the power play, which went 0-for-5 in Thursday’s loss, will be key to Rick Tocchet’s hopes of keeping his team alive long enough to return to Raleigh for Game 5 on Monday.<\/p>\n
The Canes are meanwhile one more victory away from a second straight trip to the Eastern Conference Finals. The victors of this series will take on either the Buffalo Sabres or Montreal Canadiens for a shot at the Stanley Cup Final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Carolina Hurricanes remain one of two undefeated teams left in the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs. The Hurricanes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-657183","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\/657183","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=657183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}