Sebastian Aho had a goal and two assists, and Eric Robinson and Mark Jankowski each had a goal and an assist for the Hurricanes (2-1-1), who have won consecutive games after losing their first two. Brandon Bussi made 16 saves.
Zachary Bolduc scored twice, Nick Suzuki had a goal and an assist, and Juraj Slafkovsky also scored for the Canadiens (1-1-1), who were playing their home opener and have lost two in a row. Chris Kreider and Alexandre Texier each had two assists, and Jakub Dobes made 28 saves
Carolina outshot Montreal 34-20 in a rematch of last season’s Eastern Conference Final, which the Hurricanes won in five games en route to winning the Stanley Cup.
The Canadiens allowed two goals while being outshot 17-4 in the second to relinquish a 3-2 lead.
Aho tied it 3-3 at 3:56 of the second on a wrist shot from the right side after taking a pass from Nikolaj Ehlers.
Jankowski scored at 13:24 to give the Hurricanes their second lead at 4-3. He roofed a backhand past Dobes glove side as he cut across the goalmouth.
Hall scored his second goal of the game at 12:21 of the third period for the first two-goal lead of the game at 5-3.
Slafkovsky scored at 16:57 to draw cut it to 5-4, but Andrei Svechnikov scored into an empty net with 1:16 remaining for the 6-4 final.
Montreal was outshot 12-6 in the first, but scored on three of its shots to take two of the three one-goal leads generated during a five-goal opening period.
Hall put Carolina up 1-0 at 2:25 of the first when he got to his feet in the goalmouth behind Dobes and redirected a spin-around wrist shot by Jackson Blake.
Bolduc tied it 1-1 at 3:23 with a backhand over Bussi’s left pad, retrieving a rebound of Phillip Danault’s deflection of a wrist shot by Texier from the top of the slot.
Suzuki gave the Canadiens a 2-1 lead at 4:27. He one-timed a pass from Kreider and snapped a wrist shot past Bussi’s blocker for the third goal in a span of 2:02.
Robinson tied it 2-2 at 9:22 when he deflected Jaden Chatfield’s shot from the point past Dobes.
Bolduc’s second goal of the period then put Montreal up 3-2 at 12:54.
The Canadiens were without forward Ivan Demidov. Last season’s runner-up for the Calder Trophy is out 2-4 weeks with a lower-body injury.
