Carolina Hurricanes complete sweep, end Ottawa Senators' run - ESPN

OTTAWA, Ontario — Logan Stankoven scored the go-ahead goal in the third period as the Carolina Hurricanes defeated Ottawa 4-2 to sweep the first-round series.

Taylor Hall added a goal and an assist before Sebastian Aho buried two pucks into the empty net. Frederik Andersen made 25 saves. Seth Jarvis chipped in two assists for the NHL's first team to advance into Round 2.

Drake Batherson, with a goal and an assist, and Dylan Cozens replied for the Senators, who put up just five goals in four games and never led against the Hurricanes. Linus Ullmark stopped 26 shots. Rookie defenseman Carter Yakemchuk added two assists in his playoff debut.

Of the 213 NHL teams to fall behind 3-0 in a seven-game series, just four have come all the way back to win — the 1942 Toronto Maple Leafs, 1980 New York Islanders, 2010 Philadelphia Flyers and 2014 Los Angeles Kings.

Ottawa also trailed last spring's first-round matchup with Toronto 3-0 after seven years outside the postseason tournament before eventually falling in six games.

Stankoven scored his fourth goal in as many games at 9:10 of the final period on a power play off a rebound from the end boards.

«I'm really proud of the group for the way they played for four games. You're up three-nothing, and the tendency — human nature — is maybe to not put the whole foot on the gas,» Carolina coach Rod Brind'Amour said. «But our first period was great. We came out like, 'We want to finish this.' And we had to, to play against that team. You're not going to win, if you didn't come with that attitude. And I thought we were able to do that for all four games.»

Batherson came close to equalizing again with six minutes to go before Carolina was whistled for too many men. But Ottawa's anemic power