ELMONT, N.Y. — There’s no place like home. Although for the Carolina Hurricanes, Long Island isn’t far off.

The Hurricanes posted their fifth playoff road win in six tries at the New York Islanders on Thursday, moving within a win of a sweep after holding on for a 3-2 win in Game 3.

Brent Burns, Dmitry Orlov and Sebastian Aho scored for the Hurricanes, who got a 29-save performance from Frederik Andersen, making his third consecutive start for the first time all season.

Burns opened the scoring less than five minutes in and Orlov added a second halfway through the period as the Hurricanes scored seven straight goals against the Islanders dating back to their Game 2 comeback.

The Islanders got on the board early in the second period when Pierre Engvall was left alone in front of the Carolina net, but got a quick answer from Aho, whose wrist shot beat Ilya Sorokin and sent Sorokin to the bench in favor of Semyon Varlamov, who had started the first two games.

Brock Nelson was also left alone to slot home a rebound late in the second period to make it 3-2 but Andersen denied Alexander Romanov an open net late to preserve the win.

The Hurricanes picked up where they left off in Game 2 when a good shift from the Jesperi Kotkaniemi line ended with a Burns shot through traffic that beat Sorokin on Carolina’s third attempt of the game, thanks in part to a Teuvo Teravainen screen. Martin Necas and Teravainen had the assists.

After Andersen flashed his glove to take away an open net from Noah Dobson, Orlov took a pass from Andrei Svechnikov while trailing on the rush and beat Sorokin to make it 2-0.

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