The Carolina Hurricanes capped off a weekend back-to-back with a meeting against the Pittsburgh Penguins. This was the third, and final, meeting between the two sides. The Hurricanes won the first two meetings 4-1 (Oct. 18) and 5-1 (Nov. 7) and were looking for the season sweep. The Penguins were looking to take at least one from their Metropolitan Division foe. Dramatically, the Hurricanes completed the regular season sweep with a 4-3 victory in overtime.
Game Recap
Before the dramatic comeback and eventual win, the Penguins scored two goals in two minutes, one from Kevin Hayes for his fifth of the season and Michael Bunting for his 12th. Hayes on an odd-man rush went from his zone to the Hurricanes’ zone and wristed the puck past netminder Dustin Tokarski to make it a 1-0 game. Bunting’s goal came less than two minutes as he got the puck in the slot between the circles and beat Tokarski on a wrist shot. The visitors had two goals on five shots to lead 2-0 after the first 20 minutes. The Hurricanes outshot the Penguins 9-5 in the first period.
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If the Penguins had control of the game after the first period, that vanished within 13 minutes as the Hurricanes scored three goals in the second period to go from 2-0 down to up 3-2. Seth Jarvis got the Hurricanes on the board 4:15 into the middle frame after getting a great pass from Sebastian Aho. Aho stole the puck in the neutral zone and took it into the Penguins’ zone who found Jarvis between the circles and the Winnipeg native scored his 10th of the season and cut the Penguins’ lead in half.
Over eight minutes later, Jalen Chatfield tied the game up at 2-2 with his fourth goal of the season. He kicked off the play with a breakup on the backcheck in his zone, got a great pass from Aho, and shot it past Alex Nedeljkovic. That was Aho’s 30th assist of the season and Jarvis’ secondary assist gave him the 100th of his NHL career.
The night would not end for Jarvis as he scored another goal for the Hurricanes, his second of the game. Brent Burns kept the puck in the zone and some nifty passing between Jordan Staal and Andrei Svechnikov set up Jarvis between the circles once again as he wristed the puck into the net for his third point of the night and 11th goal on the season.
The second period saw the Hurricanes outshoot the Penguins…
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