Aho's goal with 19 seconds left lifts Hurricanes past Panthers 

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Sebastian Aho scored with 19 seconds left in the third period, Pyotr Kochetkov made 44 saves, and the Carolina Hurricanes ended the Florida Panthers’ 11-game road winning streak with a 1-0 victory at PNC Arena on Thursday.

Aho scored on a wrist shot from the right face-off circle after Andrei Svechnikov's shot was blocked by defenseman Niko Mikkola.

“It felt good,” Aho said. “At a crucial time in the game, that’s pretty much a guaranteed win when you score that late.”

The Hurricanes (34-17-5), who have won four in a row and six of their past seven, allowed a season high in shots.

“Unreal. What else are you going to ask of the goalie?” Aho said. “He gave us every chance to win this hockey game. It’s good to see him feeling good about himself.”

The shutout was Kochetkov’s third of the season and seventh in 52 NHL starts.

“He was the difference. He made many, many saves,” Carolina coach Rod Brind’Amour said. “One goal was all we got. We needed him to be perfect, and he was.”

Sergei Bobrovsky made 28 saves for the Panthers (37-16-4), who had won six in a row overall.

“I liked our game. I liked it an awful lot,” Florida coach Paul Maurice said. “We put up 44 (shots) on them. Both goaltenders were good. It’s a good road game for us.”

Florida forward Matthew Tkachuk and defensemen Gustav Forsling did not play after the first period. Tkachuk took a hard hit in the corner from Svechnikov at 17:55 of the first. It was not clear what caused Forsling’s injury.

“Both are probably day-to-day,” Maurice said. “We’ll get a better look at it tomorrow when we get back. I don’t think it’s too significant. We’re always careful with anything like that now.”

The Hurricanes killed a double-minor penalty assessed to Jordan Staal for high-sticking in the third period, allowing seven shots.

“Four-minute power play, you’ve got to get something going, obviously,” Florida captain Aleksander Barkov said. “That’s obviously not the way we wanted to do that, but the whole 60 minutes, we played the right way.”

The Panthers’ road winning streak fell one game short of the NHL record, which is held by the 2005-06 Detroit Red Wings and 2014-15 Minnesota Wild.

“Of course, you want to think about those streaks, but I don’t think we care that much how many games in a row we win,” Barkov said. “We just want to treat every game as its own. We’ve been winning a lot of games in a row, but I still think it was a good game by us today."

NOTES: Bobrovsky had won his previous seven starts. … Florida defenseman Brandon Montour played a season-high 28:26. ... The Panthers have allowed two goals or fewer in 12 straight games. ... It was Kochetkov's second straight shutout at home by the score of 1-0. He made 34 saves against the New Jersey Devils on February 10. … Aho’s goal was the fifth-latest go-ahead regulation goal in Hurricanes/Hartford Whalers history.