Recap: Canes Fall to Devils in OT

Though the Carolina Hurricanes earned a point, their attempt at revenge against the New Jersey Devils was thwarted in a 3-2 overtime loss on Sunday evening at PNC Arena.
Jeff Skinner scored the game-tying goal with 1:18 remaining in regulation to force overtime, but Taylor Hall netted the game-winner in the last minute of 3-on-3 overtime.
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One
The Hurricanes were just 78 seconds away from dropping their third straight game in regulation. But, a hard-working, determined shift from Carolina resulted in a game-tying marker off the stick of Skinner, the 200th goal of his career.
Brett Pesce kept the puck at the blue line and then fended off a pair of defenders before sliding the puck over to Jaccob Slavin. Slavin sent a shot toward the net, and Skinner located the rebound to slide the puck in, sending the sold-out PNC Arena crowd into a frenzy.

"Pesce and Slavs did a good job keeping pucks alive," Skinner said. "We'd like to get a better result, but once we were at that point, it was good to get a point."
"We really worked hard," Jordan Staal said. "We found a way to get a point."
Skinner thought he had scored his 200th on Friday night against the Islanders, but that was taken away after video review confirmed the zone entry was offside. That would have been a big goal at a big time - the Canes ultimately were shut out - and tonight's was most certainly that, as well.
"I almost had it last game," Skinner said with a smile. "It's pretty cool. At the same time, you score goals to win games. Now I'll go try to get the next one."
Two
It had been since 7:43 of the second period on Thursday night in New Jersey that the Hurricanes had last scored a goal. Then, six minutes into the second period of tonight's game, Teuvo Teravainen netted his 14th goal of the season on a perfect storm of a play. The puck was bouncing around in front of Keith Kinkaid, who was without a stick, and Tervainen picked it up. He was looking to hit Sebastian Aho streaking toward the net, but his saucer pass instead bounced off the leg of Sami Vatanen and in off Kinkaid's blocker hand.

"I thought we had some good looks. Had the puck lots. … Tough one," head coach Bill Peters said. "We got a point. … That will probably be the only positive we'll take from that."
Three
Nearly 10 minutes after Teravainen tied the game, an unforced error on the Canes' part led to a go-ahead goal for the Devils. As a Hurricanes' power play concluded, Derek Ryan sent a backhand pass to the middle of the ice. It was behind Justin Williams, and the Devils took it back the other way on a 3-on-1 rush. John Moore dished over to Pavel Zacha, who scored on the one-timer.
"You see the result if you don't execute," Peters said of the play leading to the goal.

Four
After scoring 14 goals in a three-game stretch, the Canes have now scored just four goals in their last three games.
"We've got to find a way to score," Peters said. "We don't score easy now by the looks of it."
"It's just a tighter game," Staal said. "Towards the end of the season, every point matters so everything gets tighter."
"We've got to find ways to score more. We generated a lot of chances and shots. It's good," Skinner said. "But at the end of the day, the games are decided by goals, and it just doesn't seem we're finding enough of them at the right times right now."
Five
This was an important stretch for the Hurricanes - four straight games against Metropolitan Division opponents, including three at home - and they've so far posted a 0-2-1 record in that time.
"I like the way we're playing, but we didn't make much hay as we would have liked. We didn't get as many points as we would have liked," Peters said. "We're right there in every game."
Up Next
A scheduling quirk has the Canes idle until Friday, when they host the Pittsburgh Penguins to wrap up this three-game homestand.