<p>RALEIGH, N.C. — Warren Foegele scored the first of three Carolina goals in under eight minutes and the Hurricanes beat the Nashville Predators 4-1 to snap a two-game skid Thursday night.</p>
<p>Andrei Svechnikov, Vincent Trocheck and Sebastian Aho also scored for the Hurricanes. Svechnikov and Trocheck each added an assist.</p>
<p>Erik Haula had a short-handed goal for Nashville against his former team, trimming the deficit to 3-1 in the third period.</p>
<p>Petr Mrazek made 19 saves for Carolina, improving to 3-0-1 since returning from a thumb injury that sidelined him for more than two months.</p>
<p>Juuse Saros stopped 25 shots for the Predators, who lost for only the second time in seven games.</p>
<p>Foegele, who hadn’t scored in the first six games of a scheduled eight-game homestand, got his goal in transition with 1:34 to play in the first period.</p>
<p>Svechnikov scored for the first time in eight games, taking a pass from Dougie Hamilton and converting just 14 seconds into the second. </p>
<p>Trocheck turned a Nashville turnover into another goal, batting in a rebound of his own shot to make it 3-0. </p>
<p>Aho’s power-play goal with 2:38 left capped the scoring.</p>
<p>WELCOME ABOARD</p>
<p>Carolina defenseman Jani Hakanpaa was in the lineup three days after joining the team in a trade from Anaheim.</p>
<p>Hakanpaa was on the ice for the game’s first goal. Later, he was assessed a second-period tripping penalty.</p>
<p>Nashville made a trade-deadline move by picking up veteran defenseman Erik Gudbranson from Ottawa earlier in the week. He didn’t play Thursday night.</p>
<p>ANOTHER CHANCE</p>
<p>The Predators had left wing Tanner Jeannot in the lineup for the third game in a row and fourth time this season. He scored his first NHL goal two nights earlier against Tampa Bay,</p>
<p>Through two periods, only Jeannot and Mattias Ekholm had more than one shot on goal for the Predators. They each had two.</p>
<p>By the end of the game, Jeannot had a team-high seven hits.</p>
<p>UP NEXT</p>
<p>The teams meet in a rematch Saturday night in Raleigh.</p>
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