RALEIGH, N.C. — After a promising start in a tough environment for the Wild, the Carolina Hurricanes found an answer for everything Minnesota could throw at them.

Matt Boldy had a pair of goals to snap out of a notable drought, and Minnesota’s special teams continued a strong stretch, only to see the Hurricanes rally for a 4-3 win. Brock Faber got his second goal of the season for the Wild.

Looking for a third consecutive win, Minnesota twice held one-goal leads, and also came back to forge a 3-all tie, only to see the Hurricanes storm back at every turn.

“Unfortunately, we didn’t find a way to win the hockey game, but it was a hard fought battle by both teams,” Wild coach John Hynes said. “They had pushes and surges, and we had pushes and surges. But, unfortunately, we weren’t the team to win it tonight.”

Minnesota goaltender Filip Gustavsson had a shaky start, with Carolina scoring four times on its first eight shots. After that, he settled in and finished with 23 saves.

“This is a really good team we’re playing against, and we’re matching up against them pretty good today,” said Gustavsson, who added that he didn’t do anything to get back into a groove later in the game.

Minnesota fell to 5-7-3 with the loss, and is now 0-6-1 when trailing after the first period.Boldy opened the scoring, punching in a loose puck before Carolina goalie Frederik Andersen could cover it.

Boldy had scored just once in the Wild’s previous 10 games.

“He’s been great. He’s obviously playing at such a high level,” Faber said. “You know, we need what we’re getting from him and he’s playing awesome hockey.”

In the first period, fourth-line winger Tyler Pitlick leveled Carolina defenseman Jalen Chatfield with an open-ice check. After a brief fight, Chatfield was helped off the ice and Pitlick was ejected from the game for the illegal hit to the head.

Chatfield did not return to the game, officially listed as dealing with an upper body injury. Hynes denied that the penalty changed the character of the game, noting that the Wild killed the extended power play.

With the teams skating four-on-four, Carolina’s Jackson Blake made a coast-to-coast rush with the puck and snapped a low shot past Gustavsson to tie the game. But the Wild answered 31 seconds later, reclaiming the lead at 2-1 via a Faber wrist shot after set-up passes from Kirill Kaprizov and Marcus Johansson.

“Sweet, sweet play by Jojo, and good play by Kirill, and I kind of just shot it hard,” Faber said. “I don’t really know where it went.”

Johansson’s assist extended his career-best point streak to seven games.

The lead was brief, as Andrei Svechnikov fooled Gustavsson with a low shot on the next shift. The trio of goals in 52 seconds was the fastest three-goal span in the NHL this season.

The Wild killed the rest of the extended penalty, only to see Carolina take the lead on a long shot through a crowd in front of the Minnesota net five seconds after the teams were back to full strength.

Opening the middle frame on a power play, the Wild needed 37 seconds to forge a tie again when Vladimir Tarasenko fed Boldy for a tap-in. The tie was again brief, as Carolina scored on the ensuing faceoff, nine seconds later, to lead 4-3.

Hynes admitted that the start was rough for his goalie, but praised him for righting the ship.

“I thought he settled in after the first period, and the one in the second was not on him, but in the first, it wasn’t what we needed it to be,” Hynes said. “But I really like the fact that he gathered himself, and he competed and battled and kept it at four and gave us a chance to get right to the striking distance of the game.”