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with 6:48 gone in the first period as Staal quickly pounced on a rebound to get the puck past Bobrovsky.
Less than five minutes later, Teravainen deflectd a Haydn Fleury shot for his first goal of the season.
Hamilton’s goal made it 3-0 as he took a great pass from Andrei Scechnikov, who had been stuffed on a breakaway but collected his own rebound and made the cross-ice feed.
Dzingel’s first tally made it four Hurricanes goals in less than 12 minutes. On a power play, Dzingel deflected a Teravainen shot for his first goal as a member of the Hurricanes.
The second period started the same way for Carolina as Dzingel beat backup goalie Sam Montembeault.
Florida got on the board with 3:51 expired in the second period as defenseman MacKenzie Weegar scored his first goal of the season after a scramble in front of Reimer. Aleksander Barkov earned the assist.
The Panthers cut their deficit to 5-2 on Keith Yandle’s one-timer, power-play goal with 10:26 left in the third period. Yandle took a pass from Mike Hoffman and found an opening under Reimer’s left armpit for his first goal of the season.
Evgenii Dadonov’s power-play goal with 4:08 left in the third period made the score 5-3.
But Sebastian Aho ended the suspense by scoring an empty-net goal with 79 seconds left in the game.
THIS AND THAT
Montembeault was
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sharp in his first game of the season, stopping 19 of the 21 shots he faced. It was just the 12th NHL game for “Monty,” who turns 23 on Oct. 30.
Hoffman, who had
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four goals in Florida’s first two games this season, became more of a passer on Tuesday with his first two assists of the campaign.
Healthy scratches for
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the Panthers were defenseman Josh Brown and forward Denis Malgin.
The Panthers are the
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15th-best team in the NHL, according to Yahoo Sports’ latest power rankings.
The Panthers’ next
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three games are on the road: Friday at the Buffalo Sabres, Saturday at the New York Islanders and Monday at the New Jersey Devils. The Panthers return home on Oct. 18 against the Colorado Avalanche.
James Neal had his first career four-goal game and Edmonton Oilers won at Uniondale, New York.
Zack Kassian also scored as Edmonton won its first road game of the season and improved to 3-0-0 for the first time in 11 years. Connor McDavid had three assists, Leon Draisatl added two and Mikko Koskinen stopped 25 shots.
Anthony Beauvillier and Matt Martin scored for the Islanders. Semyon Varlamov, signed to a four-year deal in the offseason, made his second start of the season but was pulled in the second period after giving up four goals on 19 shots.
ELSEWHERE
Sharks: Patrick ●
Marleau, San Jose’s alltime leader in games, goals and points is returning to his original team with a one-year, $700,000 contract after spending the past two seasons in Toronto. The Sharks failed to record a point in the first three games for the first time since 1993-94 and only scored three goals in the process. That led to the move to add a veteran forward with a history of production in the NHL. Marleau, 39, left San Jose two summers ago to sign a three-year, $18.75 million contract in Toronto after the Sharks were unwilling to offer a deal longer than two years. Marleau had 43 goals and 41 assists in two seasons with Toronto.