Carolina Hurricanes vs Philadelphia Flyers Match Player Stats On Mar 05, 2020

Ivan Provorov, Michael Raffl, Nicolas Aube-Kubel and Sean Couturier each scored a goal to lift the host Philadelphia Flyers past the Carolina Hurricanes, 4-1, on Thursday.

Scott Laughton recorded two assists for the surging Flyers, who won their season-high eighth in a row. The Flyers improved to 24-5-4 at home.

Philadelphia played without James van Riemsdyk, who is expected to be out at least four weeks with a broken right index finger.

Flyers goaltender Carter Hart made 28 saves and improved to 19-2-2 at home.

Justin Williams scored the lone goal for the struggling Hurricanes, who dropped their fourth straight.

Hurricanes goaltender Alex Nedeljkovic stopped 28 shots.

The Flyers began buzzing offensively late in the first period with Phil Myers sending a blistering wrist shot just wide at 15:46. The offensive pressure paid off as Provorov tapped home his own rebound at 18:23 for a 1-0 lead.

Eighteen seconds later, Carolina's Jordan Staal nearly tied the game, but Hart squeezed his pads to make a difficult save in front.

Carolina's Joel Edmundson pulled down Claude Giroux at 2:00 of the second for the first Flyers' power play. Despite several strong scoring chances, the Hurricanes were able to kill off the power play.

Shortly after Philadelphia's second power play, Raffl skated in alone and scored for a 2-0 advantage at 9:34.

Through two periods, the Hurricanes won 16 of 30 faceoffs, but couldn't generate enough offensive pressure and ultimately trailed by two goals.

The Hurricanes closed within 2-1 at 2:55 of the third when 38-year-old Williams, a former Flyer, scored his fourth goal of the season.

Philadelphia extended its lead to 3-1 at 4:28 when Aube-Kubel took advantage of a careless turnover in Carolina's own zone and scored on a second effort. Aube-Kubel now has at least one point in five straight games.

Couturier pushed the lead to 4-1 just 26 seconds later. Jake Voracek picked up an assist on the goal, his eighth in the last four games.

--Field Level Media