Canes ride Svechnikov, Kochetkov to 4-2 win over Capitals

The Carolina Hurricanes picked up their 6th straight win, 4-2, over Washington as Andrei Svechnikov produced a couple of goals and an assist and Pyotr Kochetkov turned aside 20 of 22 Capitals shots in the win. Carolina fell behind by a goal twice during the game, but over the last 32 minutes played arguably their best hockey of the young season. Eric Robinson's second goal of the year tied the game at 2-2 right before the end of the period setting the stage for Svechnikov to put the Canes ahead on the power play with a shade more than 6 minutes to play. Sebastian Aho had 2 assists on the night. Carolina played without Jordan Staal for the second straight game and then lost Taylor Hall to an upper body injury after playing just over 4 minutes. It was announced before the game that Staal would be out for 1-2 months with a partially torn calf muscle.