Hall powers Devils by Carolina in OT
RALEIGH, N.C. — Taylor Hall scored on a rebound with 22 seconds left in overtime, giving the Devils a 3-2 victory over the Hurricanes on Sunday.
The goal extended Hall’s league-best scoring streak to 11 games.
The Devils had won the first of the teams’ four meetings this season on Thursday night to start the Hurricanes’ three-game losing streak.
“It was a selfstarter type of game for us,” Devils coach John Hynes said. “It’s on them to find a way to have the motivation to play as hard as we did and they did that.”
Keith Kinkaid stopped 40 shots for the Devils.
The Devils led 1-0 after a first period in which the Hurricanes outshot them 13-9.
“I think the fact that this was a 5 o’clock game was pretty understated,” Hall said. “The fact that they’re not on a back to back, we played last night. The flight from Tampa to Carolina is a lot longer than you think. We weren’t a rested group by any means, but you saw the battle level that was there and that’s always good.”
Nico Hischier scored New Jersey’s first goal on a power play midway through the first, assisted by Sami Vatanen and Kinkaid.
The Hurricanes tied it at 6:25 of the second with Teuvo Teravainen scoring from Trevor van Riemsdyk and Victor Rask.
The visitors went back ahead with 4:27 left in the second when Pavel Zacha scored on the assist from John Moore.
Jeff Skinner tied the score in a sixth-attacker situation with 1:18 left in regulation on assists from Brett Pesce and Jaccob Slavin.
Hurricanes goalie Cam Ward had 18 saves.