Hurricanes 3, Panthers 0: Anton Khudobin turned aside 35 shots for his first shutout of the season as visiting Carolina beat Florida for the fourth straight time.

Jiri Tlusty scored a pair of goals and Jeff Skinner also tallied as the Hurricanes won for only the sixth time in 17 games. Khudobin made 25 saves over the final two periods to earn his third career shutout and first since March 31, 2013 as a member of Boston.

Roberto Luongo was involved in a collision with Carolina's Radek Dvorak in the first but finished the period before being removed for precautionary reasons. Luongo allowed one goal on 12 shots before being relieved by Dan Ellis, who made 18 saves as the Panthers lost for the fourth time in five games.

Tlusty showed great patience on his first goal, waiting for Luongo to go down before beating him from the bottom of the right faceoff circle just past the nine-minute mark of the opening period.

The Hurricanes doubled the lead 2 1/2 minutes into the second, when Tlusty whipped the rebound of Andrei Loktionov's shot past Ellis for his 14th goal. Skinner capped the scoring just over three minutes later, converting a feed from behind the net by Patrick Dwyer after a 2-on-1 rush.

GAME NOTEBOOK: Dvorak received a charging major and a game misconduct for barreling into Luongo with just over seven minutes left in the opening period. ... Panthers D Tom Gilbert underwent season-ending hernia surgery on Thursday. ... Skinner scored for the second straight game to give him 28 goals, three shy of his career high set in his rookie season of 2010-11.