Hurricanes Pile On Panthers

     The Carolina Hurricanes stormed by the Florida Panthers 8-2 at the newly renamed Lenovo Center in Raleigh on Friday night. Both teams will meet each other again at Amerant Bank Arena tomorrow night. 

     The Cats participated in their fourth game of the 2024-25 preseason. The Hurricanes hosted their first contest of their preseason. 

     Carolina took a 1-0 lead at the 6:59 mark of the first period. Josiah Slavin scored on wrist shot off a feed from Shayne Gostisbehere. 

     The Canes got four unanswered goals in the first 16 minutes of the second period for a 5-0 advantage. Seth Jarvis collected two goals while Sean Walker and Jordan Staal each had one tally. 

     Florida broke the shutout with 3:27 left in the second on power-play goal by Oliver Okuliar. Carolina made it a five-goal margin again when Jack Roslovic placed in a snap shot on the man advantage with 28 seconds remaining in the period. 

     In the third period, the Panthers closed it to 6-2 at 4:02 when A.J. Greer redirected a shot. The Canes responded with 8:40 left in the third on a wraparound shot by William Carrier. They added another goal by Andrei Svechnikov on a snap shot with 5:06 to go in the period and led 8-2. Gostisbehere, a South Florida native, was credited with his second assist of the contest.