SUNRISE, Fla.\u00a0– A largely youth-led Carolina Hurricanes squad was outgunned in its first preseason foray on Sunday, dropping a 6-3 decision to the Florida Panthers at Amerant Bank Arena.<\/p>\n
GAME SUMMARY<\/a> |\u00a0BOX SCORE<\/a> | PRESEASON STATS<\/a> | BUY TICKETS<\/a><\/p>\n Carolina got off on the right foot when Dominik Badinka\u00a0forced a turnover from \u00a0Jacob Markstrom, then chipped the puck off the back of the Cats’\u00a0netminder and into the net at 6:06 of the contest. But a veteran-heavy Panthers group struck on the power play to even the score before the break, then tallied twice in the opening five minutes of the second period.<\/p>\n Facing a 3-1 deficit as the contest neared the midway mark, special teams brought the Canes back to life as Justin Robidas\u00a0polished off some snappy passing on a 5-on-3. Just over a minute later, Robidas picked up his second point of the night with a wraparound feed to a waiting\u00a0Bradly Nadeau\u00a0to level the affair.<\/p>\n Unfortunately for Carolina, the deadlock was short-lived. Florida regained its lead 1:25 after Nadeau’s equalizer, then stretched the advantage back to two in the frame’s final minute.<\/p>\n A more physical third period followed, including\u00a0a scrap between Charles Alexis Legault\u00a0\u2013 who dropped the gloves twice during the\u00a0Prospect Showcase earlier this month \u2013 and Brady Tkachuk. But neither side found twine again until Florida buried an empty-netter in the closing minutes.<\/p>\n Pyotr Kochetkov\u00a0logged his first NHL minutes between the pipes since Dec. 20, 2025, making 28 saves on 33 shots on the night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SUNRISE, Fla.\u00a0– A largely youth-led Carolina Hurricanes squad was outgunned in its first preseason foray on Sunday, dropping…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":899608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-899607","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\/899607","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=899607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/899608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}