The Carolina Hurricanes kept answering every Montreal push Tuesday night, and that was the difference in a 6-4 win over the Canadiens at Bell Centre.
Sebastian Aho drove the offense with three points, while Taylor Hall finished with two goals in a game that kept tilting back and forth before Carolina finally pulled away.
Hall opened the scoring early, redirecting a spinning Jackson Blake shot past the Canadiens at 2:25. Montreal didn’t let that moment settle things for long, though. The Canadiens responded with two goals in the next 2:02 to flip the game in their favor.
Carolina found a break of its own later in the period when Jalen Chatfield fired from distance and the puck clipped Eric Robinson’s hip before slipping into the net, tying the game at two. But Montreal reclaimed the lead before the first intermission, as Zachary Bolduc scored his second of the period to send the Canadiens to the break up by one.
The Hurricanes steadied things in the second and took control again with a pair of goals. Aho got the first one on a power-play rush just before the four-minute mark. Then Mark Jankowski made it count after Robinson’s forecheck created the opening, leaving Jankowski alone in front for a backhand finish at 13:24.
Carolina stretched the lead in the third when Hall buried his second of the night off a rebound from Jaccob Slavin. Montreal still had one last push with the goalie pulled for an extra attacker, but Andrei Svechnikov shut that down with an empty-net goal soon after.
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