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The Hurricanes flew into Winnipeg on Saturday

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RALEIGH http://www.hurricanesshoponline.com/authentic-andrei-svechnikov-jersey , N.C. (AP) The Carolina Hurricanes got a big lift from a pair of unlikely scorers.Brett Pesce, Phil Di Giuseppe and Sebastian Aho scored in the first period, leading the Hurricanes to a 4-1 win over the Vancouver Canucks on Friday night.While Aho leads the team with 20 goals, Pesce scored his second of the season 14 seconds into the game. Di Giuseppe picked up his first goal in over a year.”I think everyone found a way to contribute,” Hurricanes coach Bill Peters said. ”All in all, it was a good night.”Justin Williams added his 10th in the third as Carolina stopped a three-game slide. Scott Darling, who had lost his last three starts, made 22 saves.”They were throwing a lot of pucks from the side and getting bounces off them,” Darling said. ”There were a couple of awkward ones, but none of those got by me. It was just good to get the win.”Michael Del Zotto scored for Vancouver, which beat Carolina 3-0 in their first meeting of the season on Dec. 5. Jacob Markstrom stopped 29 shots.”It’s not Markstrom’s fault tonight,” Vancouver coach Travis Green said. ”We weren’t good enough to win this hockey game, that’s for sure.”Pesce got Carolina off to a fast start when he beat Markstrom over his left shoulder. Jordan Staal and Aho each got an assist on the play.”I definitely didn’t expect that,” Pesce said of his team’s early offense. ”But we stressed that since they were coming off a back-to-back.”Di Giuseppe made it 2-0 at 14:43, knocking the puck into the goal off Markstrom’s right blocker for his first goal of the season.Aho then scored with 56 seconds left in the first, easily beating Markstrom on a stretch pass from Jaccob Slavin.Del Zotto got Vancouver on the board at 3:30 of the second, scoring from the top of the left circle. But Williams beat Markstrom from the right point at 7:27 of the third.”There was a little bit of desperation for sure Brock McGinn Jersey Kids ,” Pesce said. ”We’ve had some trouble scoring these past few games. But you have to score to win, and we know where the standings are. Every win is sort of a must.”NOTES: Slavin played in his 200th NHL game. … Aho became the first Hurricane since Jeff Skinner (2010-12) to score at least 20 goals in his first two seasons. . RW Brock Boeser (wrist) and Christopher Tanev (lower body) were scratches for the Canucks. … Haydn Fleury was a healthy scratch for Carolina. . The Hurricanes sent forwards Josh Jooris and Marcus Kruger to Charlotte of the AHL.UP NEXTCanucks: Visit Dallas on Sunday in the finale of their four-game road trip.Hurricanes: Host Colorado on Saturday in the seventh of their eight-game homestand. WINNIPEG, Manitoba — The Winnipeg Jets channeled their inner Johnstown Jets in losing to the Nashville Predators on Thursday, but bet on the locals being on their best behavior when the Carolina Hurricanes come to town Sunday night.The Jets took 60 of 76 penalty minutes handed out during a meltdown in Music City — including a string of eight straight minors — in a 3-0 loss to the team they eliminated in the second round of the playoffs last spring.Add in a couple of fights, including one featuring 172-pound Danish forward Nikolaj Ehlers, and the performance was reminiscent of something from their Johnstown brethren, the inspiration for the cult hockey classic starring the Hanson Brothers, “Slap Shot.”Article continues below ...Coach Paul Maurice took a thinly veiled shot at defenseman Tyler Myers, who was assessed a 10-minute misconduct for sarcastically clapping at one of the referees after the Jets were about to go on a lengthy two-man disadvantage with defenseman Dustin Byfuglien and Jacob Trouba in the penalty box.“It does us absolutely no good to critique other people’s jobs,” he told The Winnipeg Sun. “We took two penalties we earned. We felt the line was moving quite a bit on the other ones. You know what, you’re going to have games and nights where you don’t agree with it.“I liked (the game) through two (periods). I don’t think we were real sharp in the third, but I had half a group drinking hot chocolate on the bench just trying to stay warm.”The Jets have a reputation for breaking the rules a little too much for the officials’ liking for the past few seasons. (Their penalty killers were a perfect 9 of 9 on this night.)The Hurricanes flew into Winnipeg on Saturday night after a 5-4 overtime victory over the Minnesota Wild. Finnish winger Sebastian Aho scored his second goal of the game and fourth of the season at 2:57 of overtime. He also had two assists.The Hurricanes were just 68 seconds from losing when right winger Justin Williams scored his first goal of the season to force overtime. It was the Hurricanes’ 57th shot on goal. They outshot also the Wild 20-5 in the first period.“It’s just an attitude, an attitude that we’re never out of it and we can get it done,” Williams said in a postgame interview. “It’s very early, but we’re trending in the right direction and doing a lot of good things. Because of it, we’re racking up some wins.”The Hurricanes’ 4-0-1 record is the franchise’s best start since it relocated from Hartford to North Carolina in 1997. The last time they opened a season with points in five straight games was in 1994 — when they started 4-0-1 and were still known as the Whalers. They have outscored their opponents 21-13 in the last five games.

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