Recap: Canes Conclude Weekend With Win Over Seattle

RALEIGH, NC. -The Carolina Hurricanes earned at least a point for an 11th consecutive home game Sunday, picking up a 3-2 victory over the Seattle Kraken.

The Rundown:
The second game in as many days for Seattle was also the fourth in six days for Canes, as the Kraken made their way to Raleigh for the first time in their franchise's existence.
With Frederik Andersen ruled day-to-day after morning skate, Antti Raanta was leaned upon to make his a second consecutive start for Rod Brind'Amour's group. Raanta finished Friday night's victory 14/14 after the first period and kept his strong stretch going into Sunday's opening frame.
Turning away 11 chances, Philipp Grubauer of the Kraken was equally as steady, sending the two sides into the second period scoreless.
In the middle frame, both sides found their offense though, each striking twice.
With three of the four coming in power play fashion, Seattle kicked off the scoring but then was given a response courtesy of Nino Niederreiter. After some patience from the man advantage unit brought a chorus of encouragement to shoot from the PNC Arena crowd, Seth Jarvis let a shot go from the glove-side circle, with the rebound kicking to #21 for his 17th of the year.
Unfortunately, the tie game would last just 1:06 though, as the Kraken then answered right back, capitalizing amid a change in personnel for Carolina.
Before Seattle could take their advantage into the third, Teuvo Teravainen concluded the flurry of goals with Carolina's second special teams effort of the frame.

Playing in his 500th NHL game, Teravainen's marker gave his club the necessary momentum going into the third, where they'd then take their first lead of the night.
After going 18 games without a goal, Martin Necas finally got the monkey off of his back, earning the game-winning tally.

From there Antti Raanta held down the fort, going nine-for-nine in the third and polishing off the victory with 28 saves.
They Said It:
Martin Necason ending his slump:
"I was trying to not count the games I hadn't scored, but obviously I'd never had anything like this. It happens. The last few games I started to feel a little better, getting more chances, and today it finally went in. It's a good feeling and a great win."
Antti Raantasharing his thoughts on how his confidence has been building as he's been called upon more:
"Since the New Jersey game, my confidence] has been good. It starts with practice. It took a little while to adjust myself to this team and get myself going. Now when you get those games and you get good results, a good 60 minutes, it bumps up the confidence. Then that goes into practice and you just try and keep it there and build it up, so that way when the game starts you don't have to think. It's way more fun doing that than getting into the game and having to think about what's going to happen. You don't have to wait for something to happen, you don't have to wait to make a big save and say okay now I'm in it. You get in, you make yourself the game and you try and make the saves. The guys are helping me a lot and it's a lot of fun to play behind those guys."
**Rod Brind'Amour***touching on both power play units scoring tonight:*
"We give them the ideas, but then they have to take charge as their groups. The one-off the faceoff, you've got the guy going hard to the net quick, and that's exactly what happens. You've got to win the faceoff first. The second one, we might have had better chances to shoot it, but we got it there and it was good execution on other things to get to that point. At the end of the day, we got two points, everyone gets to leave the building happy and that's really the main thing."
**What's Next?:**
The Canes are scheduled to have off Monday and Tuesday before returning to practice Wednesday ahead of Thursday's meeting with Colorado.
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