Carrier, Robinson score late in 2nd period and Hurricanes beat Sharks 5-1 to improve to 3-0

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — William Carrier and Eric Robinson scored 4 1/2 minutes apart late in the second period, and the Carolina Hurricanes beat the San Jose Sharks 5-1 on Tuesday night.

Sean Walker Shayne Gostisbehere and Jackson Blake also scored for the Hurricanes, who have won three straight to open the season. Logan Stankoven had two assists and Brandon Bussi stopped 16 shots in his NHL debut.

William Eklund scored for San Jose, and Alex Nedeljkovic finished with 38 saves. San Jose had opened the season with two overtime losses.

The Hurricanes topped 40 shots on goal for the second straight game, and held the Sharks without a shot in the third period.

Sharks rookie center Michael Misa, the second overall pick in this year's draft made his NHL debut. The 18-year-old logged 15:06 of ice time and had no shots on goal.

Walker got the Hurricanes on the scoreboard 1:24 into the second period as he one-timed a pass from Sebastian Aho from straightaway through traffic past Nedeljkovic.

Eklund tied it at 4:38 as he got a pass from Tyler Toffoli and sent a shot that went through the 27-year-old Bussi's pads and into the goal.

Carrier put the Hurricanes back ahead 2-1 with 5:46 left in the middle period. Alexander Nikishin went to the net, got a pass from Jordan Martinook, and sent a backhander off Nedeljkovic and the post and the puck lay in the paint. Carrier came in and knocked it in.

Robinson gave Carolina a two-goal lead with 1:21 left in the period as he got a lead pass from Mike Reilly, skated in on Nedeljkovic and put a backhander past the goalie.

Gostisbehere pushed Carolina’s lead to 4-1 at 1:52 of the third and Blake made it a four-goal lead at 7:25.

The Hurricanes outshot the Sharks 14-8 in a scoreless first period. San Jose had three power plays but were shut down on each one by a Hurricanes team that had the league’s top penalty-kill last season.

Hurricanes: At Anaheim on Thursday in the second of a six-game trip.

Sharks: At Utah on Friday.

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Carolina Hurricanes defenseman Sean Walker (26) celebrates with teammates after scoring a goal during the second period of an NHL hockey game against the San Jose Sharks, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025, in San Jose, Calif. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

San Jose Sharks goaltender Alex Nedeljkovic deflects a shot during the second period of an NHL hockey game against the Carolina Hurricanes, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025, in San Jose, Calif. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

Carolina Hurricanes left wing Eric Robinson (50) celebrates with teammates after scoring a goal during the second period of an NHL hockey game against the San Jose Sharks, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025, in San Jose, Calif. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

Carolina Hurricanes left wing William Carrier (28) scores a goal against San Jose Sharks goaltender Alex Nedeljkovic (33) during the second period of an NHL hockey game, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025, in San Jose, Calif. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

LONDON (AP) — The new head of the MI6 spy agency is set to warn on Monday of how Russian President Vladimir Putin’s determination to export chaos around the world is rewriting the rules of conflict and creating new security challenges.

Blaise Metreweli will use her first public speech as chief of the United Kingdom’s foreign intelligence service to say that Britain faces increasingly unpredictable and interconnected threats, with emphasis on “aggressive, expansionist” Russia.

“The export of chaos is a feature not a bug in the Russian approach to international engagement, and we should be ready for this to continue until Putin is forced to change his calculus,” she will say, according to extracts released by the Foreign Office, which oversees MI6.

The MI6 chief, known as C, is the only employee of the secretive agency whose name is made public. Metreweli, who took over from Richard Moore at the end of September, was previously the MI6 director of technology and innovation — the real-world equivalent of the fictional James Bond gadget-master Q.

She plans to say that technological savvy and human intelligence are both key to combating hybrid threats, and MI6 officers “must be as comfortable with lines of code as we are with human sources, as fluent in Python as we are in multiple languages.”

The speech is the latest in a series of warnings by Western defense and security authorities about the growing hybrid threat from states such as Russia, Iran and China, whose use of cyber tools, espionage and influence operations they say threatens global stability.

Last week, the U.K. imposed sanctions on several Russian media outlets for alleged information warfare and two Chinese tech firms for “vast and indiscriminate cyber-activities.”

Metreweli is the first woman to hold the post since MI6 was founded in 1909.

Britain’s two other main intelligence agencies have already shattered the spy world’s glass ceiling. MI5, the domestic security service, was led by Stella Rimington from 1992 to 1996 and Eliza Manningham-Buller between 2002 and 2007. Anne Keast-Butler became head of the electronic and cyberintelligence agency GCHQ in 2023.

The spy chief’s warning came amid a flurry of diplomatic meetings aimed at ending the almost four-year war sparked by Russia’s invasion of its neighbor.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met U.S. envoys on Sunday in Berlin, and will meet later with the leaders of Germany, France and Britain. Kyiv’s allies are trying to bolster support for Ukraine amid Washington’s pressure to swiftly accept a U.S.-brokered peace deal.

In a separate speech, the head of the British military, Air Chief Marshal Richard Knighton, will say Monday that Putin’s aim is “to challenge, limit, divide and ultimately destroy NATO.”

“The war in Ukraine shows Putin’s willingness to target neighboring states, including their civilian populations ... threatens the whole of NATO, including the U.K.,” Knighton plans to say, arguing that Britain needs both a stronger military and more resilient infrastructure to meet the evolving threat.

FILE - A general view of the headquarters of the Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, in London, March 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)