Recap: Canes Win Wild One Over Rangers

The Carolina Hurricanes scored four unanswered goals in the third period en route to a wild 8-5 win over the New York Rangers.
Andrei Svechnikov scored his first NHL goal, while the trio of Warren Foegele (2g, 1a), Jordan Staal (1g, 2a) and Justin Williams (3a) each recorded three points.
Here are five takeaways from Sunday evening's tilt.

One
Well, that was fun, wasn't it?
It was a wild 60 minutes - fun for the crowd and the winning side, perhaps less so for either coaching staff, but the Hurricanes will take the two points.
"A lot of fun. Eight goals. Pretty entertaining game," Foegele said. "There's a belief in the dressing room and on the bench. We were down a goal until the third period, but we just stuck with it and played hard and fast."

"It's easy to like everybody in this room," said Jordan Martinook, who recorded a two-point night. "I come to the rink with a smile on my face and have fun every time I'm here. It's the NHL. You love to be here. Just trying to bring some positive energy."
"We do owe the people that watch the game to try to make it exciting," head coach Rod Brind'Amour said. "Every coach is trying to do similar stuff. There's a fine line between what we're doing and maybe everybody else is doing. You do want the people to enjoy the game. That game is probably a little too much … but you want it to be fun."
The very definition of fun was the Hurricanes' postgame celebration. The team lined up on the right blue line and clapped over their heads before taking off on a mad sprint down the ice and banging their bodies into the glass.

"It was planned," Martinook said. "I don't know if we're going to do that one for the whole year. We'll keep the fans on their toes and keep them guessing on what we're going to do next."
"[I haven't seen that] in the NHL," Brind'Amour said. "We want to have fun when we win. The game should be fun. That's why we're doing it. I want the players to enjoy winning and the fans to enjoy being here."
Two
So, the game. It was an up-and-down, back-and-forth scoring fest. In fact, it was the first time in franchise history that the team overcame four separate deficits (2-0, 3-2, 4-3, 5-4) to win.
"We stayed with it. We made a couple mistakes," Foegele said. "We just kept playing fast and aggressive, and goals started to come."
Aggressive is how the Hurricanes want to play. They want to push the pace. They want to generate offense. They also want to be responsible defensively, but that's a work in progress. You can't argue with results, though, and the Canes have earned five of a possible six points in their first three games.
"We knew we were going to push the pace and try to create offense, not at the expense of playing defense. We haven't mastered that yet," Brind'Amour said. "We've definitely given up some quality opportunities, which we don't want to do, but it's a fun way to play. It's hard. It's going to take a lot of mental toughness because we expect a lot out of the guys. So far, they've answered the bell."
Three
It took until the third period, but the Hurricanes were finally able to pull away from the Rangers with four unanswered goals in the final 15 minutes of regulation.
Just 30 seconds after Chris Kreider's second goal gave the Rangers their fourth lead of the game, Lucas Wallmark banged home a one-timer in the slot, his first of the season, to draw the score even once more.

Five minutes later, Svechnikov redirected Justin Faulk's shot past Alexandar Georgiev for his first-career NHL goal - more on that soon. That proved to be the game-winning tally, but the Hurricanes added more.
Not even a minute later, Foegele positioned himself in the slot to tally his second of the game off a pass from Justin Williams. Finally, Teuvo Teravainen added the exclamation point with an empty-net goal in the game's final minute.

"The guys believe in each other. You can feel it," Brind'Amour said. "There's a ton of work to do. We're making mistakes that we shouldn't be making. There's a quiet confidence going on that, no matter what happens, we can come back. That's a good feeling. We have a lot of good players, and that's what makes you feel that way."
A "quiet confidence" on the bench was also noted by Martinook. Fall behind on the scoreboard? Not a problem for this team right now.
"I haven't felt a sense of panic once on the bench. Nobody has held their head at any point. We get scored on, and it's like, oh well, we'll go get it back," Martinook said. "I've never really been on a team that's had that quiet confidence about them. It's definitely good to have and fun to be a part of."
Four
A game after tallying his first NHL point - the primary assist on Martinook's first-period goal in Columbus - Svechnikov netted his first NHL goal. It was a simple play, as he positioned himself at the top of the crease, stick on the ice, to redirect Faulk's shot to the twine. A fist pump. A leap into the glass. Mobbed by teammates. The first of many for Svechnikov.

"That's my dream to score my first goal in the NHL," he said. "I was super happy."
Svechnikov also tallied an assist for the first multi-point game of his career. And, he's the first NHL player born in the 2000s to score a goal.
"Really? I didn't know that," Svechnikov said. "That's cool. I'm super happy. I want to just keep going and score more."
"We need everyone to contribute. We've said that from day one. Whether you're a rookie or you've been around forever, if you want to play, you've got to contribute," Brind'Amour said. "[The young guys] are finding ways. They're not just taking up ice time. They're making an impact."
Five
It's the fifth takeaway, and we've only covered half the goals the Hurricanes scored.

An early 2-0 deficit didn't seem to faze the Canes. Three minutes after Kreider gave his team a 2-0 lead, Foegele snuck a shot by Georgiev along the near side of the net to get the Canes on the board. Later in the first, Martinook made a beeline toward the front of the net, and none of the Rangers defensemen seemed intent on stopping him. Williams spotted the net drive and fed Martinook for the newcomer's second goal in as many games.

"Even when we got down two, thankfully it was early, you could just feel it on the bench. There was no panic or, oh man, we're not coming back. It was, ok, let's get to our game and see what happens," Brind'Amour said. "That's a real positive."
Jordan Staal tallied a breakaway goal in the second period to tie the game at three, but worth noting is the sequence prior. Sebastian Aho and Teravainen were utilized as a forward duo in 4-on-4 but then got stuck on the ice during a penalty kill. Along with Jaccob Slavin and Brett Pesce, the Canes got the job done. Slavin, especially, was a defensive force, in one sequence stick-checking Kreider on the doorstep and then dropping to the ice to block what probably would have been a goal with his back.

Then, Slavin hit Foegele with a stretch pass down the ice at the tail-end of what would be a 2:22 shift. Skating over the blue line, Foegele left the puck for Staal on a breakaway, and he buried a top-shelf shot.
With just 30 seconds left in the period, Micheal Ferland scored his second goal in as many games, a filthy shot from atop the near circle that evened the score at four.

"You look at ever line on our team," Martinook said. "Every line can score goals and chip in."
Up Next
The Hurricanes host the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday before hitting the road later in the week for a three-game trip.
"It's game three. We're going to face a lot of adversity this year. But so far, we've answered the bell," Martinook said. "It's fun coming to the rink right now. The boys are having fun. We're ready to go on Tuesday."