6 Panthers players score in 6-3 win over Carolina Hurricanes

Panthers beat Hurricanes 6-3

SUNRISE, Fla. — Rostislav Olesz and Radek Dvorak scored goals in a 37-second span early in the third period and the Florida Panthers earned a 6-3 win over the Carolina Hurricanes on Friday night.

Jordan Leopold, Bryan McCabe and Keith Ballard scored in the second period for Florida, which earned its fourth win in five games.

Dominic Moore added a short-handed goal in the third for the Panthers. Florida’s Tomas Vokoun made 32 saves.

Patrick Dwyer, Scott Walker and Eric Staal scored for the Hurricanes, who have only one win on the road this season.

Cam Ward stopped 21 of 26 shots for the Hurricanes before he was replaced by Manny Legace in the third period. Legace faced two shots, allowing one goal.

Olesz scored at 4:10 of the third to make it 4-1. Dvorak’s wrist shot at 4:47 chased Ward and put the Panthers up 5-1. Moore beat Legace with a backhand at 7:57 in the third for his sixth goal of the season, which stretched Florida’s lead to 6-1.

Carolina added goals from Walker at 8:19 of the third and Staal at 10:21, but it wasn’t enough.

The Panthers went up 2-1 on McCabe’s goal at 9:25 in the second period. Ballard then made it 3-1 when he scored on a slap shot from above the right circle at 11:05 of the second.

Dwyer opened the scoring at 5:27 of the second period. He beat Vokoun with a wrist shot from the high slot. Florida answered about a minute later, when Leopold scored on a slap shot from above the left circle to tie the game at 1-1 at 6:29 of the second.

NOTES: Florida C Kamil Kreps (upper-body injury) was a scratch. Kreps collided with Florida’s bench door during Wednesday night’s game. … Panthers D Bryan Allen also sat out Friday’s game. Florida coach Pete DeBoer said Allen got the night off so he could rest his surgically repaired knee.