Farabee has 3 points, Flames hold off Hurricanes to end 4-game skid

CALGARY -- Joel Farabee had two goals and an assist, and the Calgary Flames held on for a 5-4 win against the Carolina Hurricanes at Scotiabank Saddledome on Saturday to end their four-game losing streak.

“I thought we came out with a lot of energy,” Farabee said. “It was a really good effort and they’re obviously a really good team, so it definitely feels good.”

Ryan Strome had a goal and an assist in his Calgary debut, and Morgan Frost had a goal and two assists for the Flames (25-30-7), who had gone 0-3-1 in their previous four games. Blake Coleman also had a goal and an assist and Dustin Wolf made 25 saves.

“Long day, but as hockey players the easiest thing to do is just go out there and play, so that was the easy part,” Strome said.

The forward, who was traded to the Flames by the Anaheim Ducks on Friday for a seventh-round pick in the 2027 NHL Draft, arrived in Calgary late Saturday morning.

“I can’t say enough about the guys in the room,” he said. “Honestly, this is a really, really good dressing room, a lot of character guys, very vocal. It made it very easy on me, very welcoming.”

Seth Jarvis had a goal and two assists, and Sebastian Aho had three assists for the Hurricanes (40-17-6), who had won two straight games and seven of their past eight. Andrei Svechnikov had a goal and an assist, and Brandon Bussi made 20 saves.

“We got back in the game, but you can’t play 10 minutes of good hockey and think you’re going to win a hockey game,” Carolina coach Rod Brind’Amour said. “We weren’t very good, really start to finish, so we got what we deserved.”

Jarvis gave Carolina a 1-0 lead 44 seconds into the first period, taking a cross-ice pass from Svechnikov at the bottom of the right circle and sending a wrist shot into the net over Wolf’s glove.

Strome scored 19 seconds into the second period to pull the Flames into a 1-1 tie. Situated at the left side of the net, Strome took a pass from Olli Maatta and lifted a shot over Bussi, who had fallen to the ice and was laying on his back.

Maatta was also making his Flames debut, coming over in a trade from the Utah Mammoth on Wednesday.

“Obviously when you see one go in, it feels good, too,” Strome said. “It was fun. It’s been an absolutely insane day and a busy 24 hours.”

Farabee put the Flames up 2-1 at 4:11. Bussi stopped the initial shot from the high slot by Frost, but the puck bounced to his left to Farabee, who swatted it past the Carolina goalie’s outstretched leg.

Frost made it 3-1 for Calgary with a power-play goal at 7:08. Carolina defenseman Jalen Chatfield blocked Zayne Parekh’s point shot, but the puck bounced into the slot to Frost, who sent a wrist shot into the top corner past Bussi’s glove.

Coleman extended Calgary’s lead to 4-1 at 2:24 of the third period, tapping a rebound past Bussi for his first goal in nine games.

Sean Walker scored at 4:41 to cut the lead to 4-2, taking a pass from Taylor Hall and sending a wrist shot over Wolf’s blocker.

“Obviously, a hard game in every zone,” Svechnikov said. “They play a fast game, and they created a little bit more than us. Obviously in the third period, I thought we kind of came back and we were good.”

Alexander Nikishin scored a power-play goal at 5:43 to pull Carolina within a goal at 4-3. He took a drop pass from Aho and one-timed a slap shot from the point past Wolf.

“He’s got a rocket, that’s for sure,” Brind’Amour said. “We want him taking advantage of that anytime he can. Obviously, there was an opportunity there to do it, and he came through, so that was good. He got us back into the game there for a little bit.”

Farabee scored on a breakaway at 17:42 to make it 5-3 before Svechnikov swatted a loose puck in front of the net past Wolf at 19:48 for the 5-4 final.

“I feel like my whole career I’ve been a streaky goal-scorer,” said Farabee. “I thought ‘Frosty’ and ‘Coles’ were unbelievable tonight and they made it easy. They got the puck to me and vice versa, so I really liked the chemistry we had.”

NOTES: Calgary defenseman Zach Whitecloud fell awkwardly into the boards late in the first period and left the game. Calgary coach Ryan Huska said he’s day-to-day with an upper-body injury. … Aho reached 42 assists for his fifth career 40-assist season – the third-most in franchise history behind Ron Francis (13) and Eric Staal (seven).