Hurricanes strike twice early, hold off Devils
Justin Williams and Micheal Ferland scored in the game’s first 30 seconds and the Carolina Hurricanes held on for a 2-1 victory over the New Jersey Devils on Sunday in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Curtis McElhinney made 33 saves for Carolina.
Carolina’s two-goal outburst in the first half-minute is tied for fifth-fastest in NHL history.
Pavel Zacha scored his second goal of the season late in the first period for New Jersey. Cory Schneider finished with 20 saves.
Coming off a 4-1 home loss to Columbus a day earlier that Williams called a “dud,” Carolina’s captain got the team off to a quick start.
Jordan Staal sprung Williams, who cut between Travis Zajac and Taylor Hall and beat Schneider just 22 seconds into the game.
Eight seconds later, New Jersey defenseman Damon Severson turned the puck over in the neutral zone and Teuvo Teravainen fed Ferland who scored past Schneider Carolina’s Micheal Ferland, left, celebrates his goal Sunday against New Jersey.
to make it 2-0.
The Devils, who lost 3-2 in overtime to the Detroit Red Wings on Saturday, cut the deficit in half when Zacha flipped a backhander past McElhinney at 6:33 in the first.
The Devils were 0 for 3 on the power play in the second period. New Jersey finished the game with a 34 to 25 shot
advantage. It was the second time this season that the Hurricanes have been out-shot.
New Jersey’s Will Butcher had the best chance to tie it up at 5:57 of the second period, but McElhinney made his best save. McElhinney also stopped Butcher in the final minute of the third period.
BLACKHAWKS 3, WILD 1: Jonathan Toews and Brandon Saad scored first-period goals, Corey Crawford made 39 saves and Chicago held on to defeat Minnesota. Dominik Kahun added an empty-netter with 58.5 second left as the Blackhawks improved to 2-2-2 under coach Jeremy Colliton, who replaced Joel Quenneville on Nov. 6. Patrick Kane had two assists for Chicago, 2-0-1 in its last three games. Zach Parise scored for Minnesota. STARS 6, ISLANDERS 2: Esa Lindell scored twice during Dallas’ four-goal second period and the Stars beat New York. Alexander Radulov had two goals and an assist, Tyler Seguin had a goal and two assists, and Roope Hintz also scored for the Stars, who have won two straight. Jamie Benn had three assists, Jason Spezza had two to top 900 points in his career, and Ben Bishop stopped 37 shots. Anthony Beauvillier and Scott Mayfield scored for the Islanders. Thomas Greiss had 16 saves, but was pulled after giving up three goals on six shots in the first 7:08 of the second period. Robin Lehner came on and finished with 11 saves. GOLDEN KNIGHTS 6, OILERS 3: Jonathan Marchessault had two goals and an assist to help Vegas beat Edmonton. William Karlsson, Cody Eakin, Max Pacioretty and Reilly Smith also scored, Smith tacked on two assists and Colin Miller had three. Connor McDavid, Alex Chiasson and Leon Draisaitl scored for Edmonton. AVALANCHE 4, DUCKS 3, OT: Mikko Rantanen scored with two seconds remaining in overtime to give Colorado a win over Anaheim. Gabriel Landeskog scored to tie the game in the third period and had an assist on the game-winner. Nathan MacKinnon had two goals and an assist for Colorado.