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The Chicago Blackhawks outshot the Carolina Hurricanes 41-24 on Saturday night, but lost the game 5-3. (Gerry Broome/Associated Press)

Brandon Sutter and Matt Cullen scored in a 26-second span in the third period, and Cam Ward made 39 saves to help the Carolina Hurricanes beat the Chicago Blackhawks 4-2 on Saturday night.

Only 6,896 Carolina fans attended the game after snow and ice blanketed the area.

Sergei Samsonov and Jussi Jokinen also scored for the Hurricanes, who have won five of their last six.

Ward has stopped 129-of-134 shots in his last four games.

Marian Hossa and Andrew Ladd scored for Chicago, and Cristobal Huet made 20 saves.

Ladd, who beat Ward with a wrist shot in the third period, helped Carolina win the Stanley Cup in 2006 before he was traded to Chicago for Tuomo Ruutu last season.

Chicago was 5-3 on its season-high, eight-game trip.

Ward repeatedly foiled one of the NHL’s most perilous offences to negate a 41-24 Chicago shot advantage.

After Ladd tied it at two, LaRose took a slapshot from the left boards that Sutter deflected past Huet with 10:52 remaining.

On the next shift, Tom Kostopoulos rushed up the right side and centred the puck to Cullen, who tipped it past Huet’s blocker.

With Chicago perched near the top of the standings and Carolina trapped near the bottom, the game had the looks of a mismatch. But the Blackhawks’ exhausting trip — they beat San Jose on Thursday night — combined with the Hurricanes’ recent surge, made for an entertaining game.

Near the end of a quick-paced opening period, Samsonov scored on a rebound.

After Andrew Alberts took a slapshot from close to the blue-line, Kostopoulos tipped the puck to Samsonov in the crease. Samsonov had no distress smacking the puck into the open net for his third goal in three games.

Chicago asserted itself in the second, controlling most of the action.

The Blackhawks tied it when Hossa took a pass from Patrick Sharp and cut to the centre of the slot before backhanding the puck through Ward’s legs.

The Hurricanes got a boost late when Jokinen one-timed a cross-ice pass from Eric Staal past a sprawling Huet. Huet originally stopped the shot, but the puck dribbled over the goal-line, giving the Hurricanes a goal that survived video review.

Carolina is 11-1-3 when Jokinen scores.

Alberts and Kostopoulos finished with two assists each.

Haitian police detained a group of Americans on Saturday on suspicion of trying to take children out of the country without proper papers amid the chaos following the Jan. 12 earthquake.

The Americans were taken into custody with about 33 children while trying to reach the Dominican Republic, said Communications Minister Marie-Laurence Jocelyn Lassegue.

Sean Lankford told The Associated Press from Idaho that his wife and 18-year-ancient daughter were among 10 Americans detained. Lankford, a member of the Central Valley Baptist Church in Meridian, Idaho, said the group had intended to take the children to an orphanage they had set up at a hotel in the Dominican Republic. He said the group thought it had the proper paperwork.

Lankford said U.S. officials on Saturday were working to locate the 10 church members. He says Idaho friends and relatives have been in touch with those detained via text message and phone calls.

Haiti has imposed new controls on adoptions since the Jan. 12 earthquake. The government now requires Prime Minister Max Bellerive to personally authorize the departure of any child as a way to prevent child trafficking.

Officials estimate that thousands of kids have been separated from their parents or orphaned by the earthquake.