RALEIGH, N.C. — For a third series in a row, the Montreal Canadiens started on the road.For a third series in a row, the Canadiens stole home-ice advantage.The overwhelming narrative of the Canadiens Eastern Conference final series against the Carolina Hurricanes was whether the near-unprecedented 12 days since the completion of their sweep against the Philadelphia Flyers would hurt the Hurricanes in Game 1.And judging by the first period, it certainly did.Though the Hurricanes jumped out to a 1-0 lead 33 seconds in on Seth Jarvis’ second goal of the playoffs, the Canadiens stormed back, excuse the pun.Cole Caufield scored 27 seconds later to tie it, Phillip Danault scored on a breakaway at 4:04, Alexandre Texier scored off a Danault feed at 8:11, and Ivan Demidov scored on yet another breakaway at 11:32.And honestly, it could have been much worse for the Hurricanes, who were sloppy with the puck and leaking chances, looking every bit like a team that had not played in close to two weeks.Just like that, the underdog Canadiens were leading 4-1, the Lenovo Center was deathly quiet, and just about everything that could have gone wrong for the Hurricanes did in an eventual 6-2 Canadiens win.The Canadiens played Game 7 of their second-round series against the Buffalo Sabres on Monday, and in that game they took a 2-0 lead and sat on it, getting dominated for much of the second period and allowing the Sabres to tie the game in the third before winning on an Alex Newhook goal in overtime.This game played out in much the same way, except the Hurricanes never got close enough to tie it and while they had a lot of possession in a second period where they outshot the Canadiens 11-3, those shots lacked the quality needed to beat Jakub Dobeš.The most encouraging development for the Canadiens was that both the Caufield goal that tied it early and a pair of Juraj Slafkovský goals that put the game out of reach in the third earned five-on-five points for all three members of their top line, which had struggled to produce at even strength through two rounds.It is only one game, and the Hurricanes are unlikely to start any other game in this series the way they started Game 1. But the Canadiens have already accomplished what they came to Raleigh to do.Hurricanes spend first period in danger zoneAt the end of the first period, Carolina had posted a 14-13 edge in shots — a fact that couldn’t have been less indicative of what actually happened in those 20 minutes’ worth of play. Montreal held a 4-1 lead that felt like an instance of the Hurricanes getting off easy; Kirby Dach, Jake Evans and Juraj Slafkovský were among the Canadiens who, in one way or another, couldn’t quite cash in on golden opportunities.