Nino Niederreiter scored twice, and Teuvo Teravainen tallied three points to help goaltender Alex Nedeljkovic win his first NHL start as the visiting Carolina Hurricanes used a five-goal second period to beat the Vancouver Canucks 5-2 on Wednesday night.

Nedeljkovic, Carolina's 2014 second-round draft choice, stopped 24 shots for the win. The Hurricanes, who last won in Vancouver on Oct. 15, 1999, and had lost their last 10 visits, finished 2-0-1 on a road trip through Western Canada.

After a scoreless first period, Niederreiter put the Hurricanes on the board 1:54 into the middle frame with a power-play goal.

The Canucks responded twice in less than four minutes to take a 2-1 lead. Josh Leivo tied the game 63 seconds after Niederreiter's goal with a long-redirection for his ninth goal of the season. Then Sven Baertschi collected his eighth goal by finishing a tic-tac-toe passing play at the 5:14 mark.

It was all Hurricanes the rest of the period. Greg McKegg evened the score at 6:53 when he buried a chance set up by Dougie Hamilton -- who intercepted a poor clearing attempt to start the play.

Niederreiter notched his second of the game and 13th of the season at 13:17 by first winning a board battle and then playing give-and-go with Sebastian Aho before one-timing a shot.

Hamilton made it a 4-2 game 25 seconds later when he wisely pinched from his point position to receive a pass from Teravainen and one-timed a top-shelf rocket to pot his eighth goal of the season.

Finally, Teravainen netted a goal of his own at 16:32 to cap the five-goal period, finishing a give-and-go with McKegg by firing a rocket from near the left faceoff dot.

McKegg, Hamilton and Aho all posted two-point games.

Goalie Jacob Markstrom made 29 saves for the Canucks, who went into the game on a 3-0-2 run.

--Field Level Media