Carolina 5, Dallas 3

First Period_1, Carolina, Aho 3 (Trocheck, Staal), 16:01 (pp). Penalties_Niederreiter, CAR (Tripping), 5:01; Oleksiak, DAL (Interference), 11:54; Geekie, CAR (Holding), 13:32; Faksa, DAL (Hooking), 15:37; Svechnikov, CAR (Tripping), 19:23.

Second Period_2, Dallas, Pysyk 1 (Robertson, Gurianov), 5:16. 3, Carolina, Staal 3 (Pesce, Svechnikov), 5:46. 4, Dallas, Hintz 4 (Gurianov, Robertson), 8:25. 5, Dallas, Pavelski 8 (Heiskanen, Klingberg), 11:28 (pp). 6, Carolina, McGinn 5 (Pesce), 19:33. Penalties_Niederreiter, CAR (Interference), 9:50; Carolina bench, served by Dzingel (Too Many Men on the Ice), 10:40.

Third Period_7, Carolina, Niederreiter 6 (Hamilton, Trocheck), 3:58. 8, Carolina, Foegele 3 (Aho), 19:06 (en). Penalties_Pysyk, DAL (Hooking), 15:55.

Shots on Goal_Carolina 13-10-9_32. Dallas 9-18-10_37.

Power-play opportunities_Carolina 1 of 3; Dallas 1 of 5.

Goalies_Carolina, Reimer 6-1-0 (37 shots-34 saves). Dallas, Khudobin 3-3-1 (31-27).

A_3,687 (18,532). T_2:41.

Referees_Gord Dwyer, Dan O'Rourke. Linesmen_Vaughan Rody, Andrew Smith.