Recap: Canes Historic Run Comes To A Close In New York

NEW YORK -It was inevitable that the Carolina Hurricanes' franchise-best stretch was going to end at some point, and that some point turned out to be Tuesday night in New York City, falling to the Rangers by a score of 5-3.

The Story

Entering Madison Square Garden winners of 11 straight, Rod Brind'Amour and staff turned to Pyotr Kochetkov in net for the first time in six games. The NHL's latest Rookie of the Month had not started since December 20, riding shotgun as Antti Raanta earned league honors himself as Third Star of the Week.
When the action got underway, the contest felt very much like it was a continuation of the Eastern Conference playoff series between the two sides from last May.
Tightly contested and back and forth, the Canes would get the first goal of the night courtesy of Brent Burns.
A shot from the point by Jaccob Slavin caused some chaos in front of the crease of Igor Shesterkin, and eventually, the veteran defenseman swooped in to poke the loose puck off of a defender and in for his 14th point in 15 games.

As stated above though, the game would swing in favor of both sides though and on their first power play of the night the Rangers would even the score. A shot from the point by Jacob Trouba bounced off of the skate blade of a Canes defender, changing directions before beating Kochetkov.
However, the tied contest would last all of just 16 seconds, as the visitors would showcase their resiliency for the first of two times on the night.
On the following shift after Trouba's goal, some integral work by Paul Stastny and Andrei Svechnikov allowed Martin Necas to net his 17th goal of the season.

Taking a 2-1 lead into the second, the two teams would then trade goals just 29 seconds apart in the second period.
After a few quality stops by both Kochetkov and Shesterkin, an attempted pass from Mika Zibanejad for Vincent Trocheck slipped under Carolina's netminder to tie the affair, but Jalen Chatfield had the immediate response for Rod Brind'Amour's club.
Heading to the third 3-2, the magic would then run out for Carolina.
Just 36 seconds into the period Artemi Panarin snuck a shot by Kochetkov that he never saw.
Then, just after the midway mark of the period, K'Andre Miller gave New York their first lead of the night. His third goal of the season would be supplemented by an empty net goal from Filip Chytil, closing out Carolina's first regulation loss since Wednesday, November 23.

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They Said It

Brady Skjeiproviding his assessment of the loss, post-game...
"I don't think we played up to our standard the whole 60 minutes. Obviously a good team like this is going to take advantage of mistakes. We just didn't have it tonight. We've had something pretty special the last few weeks, so we'll try and forget about this one, move on and then try to get another streak going."
Martin Necasoffering his perspective...
"I think we were good at first, but just like Roddy told us after the game, we slowly went downhill. There were a lot of penalties, they had two power play goals and we had nothing. That was kind of the key to the game."
Rod Brind'Amourspeaking on Pyotr Kochetkov's return in net...
"He's going to want those [goals] back, obviously. He made some nice saves in the game, but a couple of those goals are tough. He'll bounce back."

Bonus Notes

• Martin Necas' first period goal now gives him a new career-high with 17.
• Allowing four goals on 30 shots, Pyotr Kochetkov suffers just the second regulation loss of his NHL career.
• Canes forward Stefan Noesen left the game due to a lower-body injury in the first period and did not return. He attempted to skate again prior to the start of the second period, but instead headed back to the locker room and was ruled out.
• With the loss, Carolina moves to 25-7-6.

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What's Next?

The Canes are scheduled to return to Raleigh post-game and practice on Wednesday, before returning to game action on Thursday when Nino Niederreiter and the Nashville Predators come to PNC Arena.
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