Hurricanes vs. Rangers – NHL Game Recap – January 3, 2023 | ESPN

NEW YORK — — Artemi Panarin, Ok’Andre Miller and Filip Chytil scored third-period objectives because the New York Rangers rallied to beat Carolina 5-3 on Tuesday evening, snapping the Hurricanes’ 11-game successful streak.

Jacob Trouba and Mika Zibanejad additionally scored for the Rangers, who’re 10-2-1 of their final 13 video games. Igor Shesterkin made 20 saves within the first assembly between the groups since New York eradicated Carolina in seven video games throughout a second-round playoff collection final Could.

“It is a huge win for us,” Rangers coach Gerard Gallant stated. ”We had some lucky breaks tonight. They’re a troublesome group to play towards.”

The Hurricanes had factors in 17 straight and hadn’t misplaced in regulation since Nov. 23.

“They have been the higher group,” coach Rod Brind’Amour stated. “We by no means actually obtained issues going. It was going to occur.”

Carolina led 3-2 coming into the third earlier than Panarin tied it together with his eleventh aim, scoring on a protracted shot by way of visitors 36 seconds into the interval. Miller put New York forward 4-3 with a deflection at 10:27, beating Carolina netminder Pyotr Kochetkov for the defenseman’s third of the season, assisted by Zibanejad and Kaapo Kakko.

The Rangers have 52 third-period objectives this season, third-most within the NHL.

Kochetkov made 26 saves however misplaced in regulation for under the second time in 16 selections.

“It was about us sticking with it tonight,” Miller stated. ”We needed to come back out within the third and provides our group the very best probability to win.”

Panarin’s aim was assisted by defensemen Ryan Lindgren and Adam Fox, who has a minimum of one level in 26 of New York’s 39 video games this season. Panarin leads the Rangers with 44 factors.

”They play exhausting hockey, strain in every single place,” Panarin stated of the Hurricanes. “For that group, it is easy to maintain focus 100%.”

Chytil’s aim got here on the ability play into an empty internet at 18:57 because the Rangers gained for the fifth time of their final six dwelling video games after a 4-6-4 begin at Madison Sq. Backyard.

The Hurricanes have been 15-0-2 of their previous 17 video games. Their earlier loss in regulation was 4-0 at dwelling to Arizona simply earlier than Thanksgiving. Their most up-to-date defeat was 4-3 in additional time at Anaheim on Dec. 6.

“We’ve accomplished one thing particular these previous few weeks,″ defenseman Brady Skjei stated. “Tonight simply wasn’t our evening. One loss doesn’t change the best way we really feel about our group.”

Hurricanes defenseman Jalen Chatfield put Carolina forward 3-2 at 17:14 of the second.

Carolina scored first when defenseman Brent Burns put the puck previous Shesterkin off a scrum in entrance at 7:24 of the opening interval. The aim was the fifth this season for the 37-year-old Burns, in his first season with the Hurricanes after 11 with San Jose. Paul Stastny and Jaccob Slavin assisted.

The Rangers tied it on the ability play when Trouba scored his third at 16:26 of the primary.

Carolina answered proper again when Martin Necas fired a shot previous Shesterkin simply 16 seconds later. The aim was the seventeenth this season for Necas. Stastny and Andrei Svechnikov assisted. Necas has a degree in six straight video games.

Zibanejad scored his team-leading nineteenth aim at 16:45 of the second on the ability play, however Chatfield put Carolina again forward 29 seconds later. Zibanejad has factors in 13 of his final 17 video games.

Carolina was coming off a 5-4 shootout win at New Jersey on Sunday, when the Hurricanes tied a franchise file with factors in 12 consecutive highway video games.

Sport notes
Brind’Amour remained one win shy of 200. … The Hurricanes scratched defenseman Dylan Coghlan. … The Rangers scratched ahead Johnny Brodzinski and defenseman Libor Hajek. … The groups play three extra instances: Feb. 11 and March 23 in North Carolina, and March 21 at Madison Sq. Backyard.

UP NEXT

Hurricanes: Host the Nashville Predators on Thursday.

Rangers: Go to the Montreal Canadiens on Thursday.

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