Cole Caufield and Josh Anderson scored 23 seconds aside within the second interval because the Montreal Canadiens got here again from a two-goal deficit to defeat the Carolina Hurricanes 7-5 on Thursday night time in Raleigh, N.C.
Lane Hutson, Sammy Blais and Juraj Slafkovsky every had a purpose and an help, whereas Nick Suzuki and Oliver Kapanen additionally scored for the Canadiens, who’ve gained three of their final 4 video games. Alexander Texier and Ivan Demidov added two assists every, whereas Jakub Dobes made 20 saves.
Sebastian Aho was concerned in all 5 Hurricanes’ objectives with two tallies and three assists. Nikolaj Ehlers and Andrei Svechnikov each added a purpose and two assists and Alexander Nikishin chipped in a purpose and an help.
Carolina goalie Brandon Bussi misplaced in regulation for the second time in 16 outings, stopping 16 pictures.
Suzuki and Kapanen scored 56 seconds aside early within the first interval, giving the Canadiens a 2-0 lead earlier than 4 straight Carolina objectives.
The Hurricanes countered with Ehlers’ power-play purpose with 9:13 to play within the first. They pulled even 92 seconds later when Sebastian Aho redirected Joel Nystrom’s blue-line blast.
Carolina went forward following Montreal’s horrid clearing try, with Svechnikov changing on a scramble in entrance of the online with 5 minutes left within the interval.
Within the opening interval, Aho had three factors and Ehlers and Svechnikov every had one purpose and one help. It marked Aho’s tenth multi-point recreation of the season.
The three first-period objectives matched the Hurricanes’ complete objectives in regulation from their previous two video games mixed.
Nikishin’s power-play purpose 54 seconds into the second interval stretched the result in 4-2.
The Canadiens acquired the next three objectives, together with Caufield’s tying tally and Anderson’s unassisted go-ahead snipe simply 23 seconds aside. Caufield leads Montreal with 20 objectives.
Aho’s second purpose got here with an additional attacker to carry the Hurricanes inside one. Huston’s empty-net purpose adopted on the two-minute mark.
–Area Stage Media
