The game, which was the first of four straight between the teams, was rescheduled from March 28 after the Lightning's originally scheduled game against the Dallas Stars was postponed because of the severe winter weather in Texas. The Hurricanes had been scheduled to complete their two-game set against the Chicago Blackhawks, but that game will be rescheduled to a date to be announced.
Vincent Trocheck scored his ninth goal when he jammed in a loose puck at the left post to give Carolina a 1-0 lead at 2:19 of the second period. The goal was Trocheck's 300th point in the NHL.
"The first period kind of went both ways, then they get that goal and we just kind of chased the game from there," Lightning captain Steven Stamkos said. "That's a really good hockey team over there. They've had our number this year."
Aho made it 2-0 at 15:30 when he drove the net from the right face-off circle and scored top shelf. Andrei Svechnikov held the puck in at the blue line and made a backhand pass to Aho to start the play.
"I know [Svechnikov] was going to find me," Aho said. "I tried to beat [Tampa Bay defenseman Ryan McDonagh], I got a step on him and I got a good bounce too. It bounced over the goalie's stick upstairs, so a good goal."
Cedric Paquette took a pass from Jake Bean and scored with a wrist shot in the slot to extend the lead to 3-0 at 3:12 of the third period. The goal was Paquette's first with the Hurricanes in his fourth game since being acquired in a trade from the Ottawa Senators on Feb. 13. Paquette was playing his first game against the Lightning after winning the Stanley Cup with them in 2020.
"You couldn't write a better script than that," Paquette said. "Only my fourth game here and against my old teammates. It was nice to finally get one."
Svechnikov scored into an empty net to make it 4-0 at 17:41.
"I think we kind of forced things in the third," Tampa Bay forward Alex Killorn said. "We kind of got out of our system a little bit because we were trying to fight back and score that goal. We were getting some chances, it just kind of got away from us there."