Morrissey, Jets recover for OT victory against Hurricanes

Josh Morrissey scored his second goal of the game at 2:10 of overtime, and the Winnipeg Jets recovered for a 4-3 win against the Carolina Hurricanes at Canada Life Centre in Winnipeg on Monday.

Morrissey won it on a breakaway off a stretch pass from Pierre-Luc Dubois after the Hurricanes scored three goals in the final 4:48 of the third period to tie it.
"We were able to create a turnover and control the puck," Morrissey said. "I just took off when one of their guys changed. [Dubois] made a great heads-up pass. Just saw a hole and tried to shoot. I wasn't going to get too fancy."

Jaccob Slavin scored on a wrist shot from the left point at 15:12 to make it 3-1, Andrei Svechnikov deflected a shot by Brent Burns to cut it to 3-2 at 16:52, and Martin Necas tied it with 39 seconds left.
The Hurricanes scored all three of their goals with goalie Pyotr Kochetkov pulled for an extra attacker.
"There wasn't much going on 5-on-5, and it changed the momentum a little bit." Necas said. "We got a nice goal from [Slavin] and we just played the same way and got a couple more goals, which was just huge."

Dubois had a goal and two assists, and Michael Eyssimont scored his first NHL goal for the Jets (11-5-1), who have won three of their past four games. David Rittich made 25 saves.
Sebastian Aho had three assists for the Hurricanes (10-5-4), who have lost three straight in overtime. Kochetkov made 19 saves.
"It's a crazy game, number one. You just never know," Carolina coach Rod Brind'Amour said. "We were out of that game in the third, and they just kind of dug in just said, 'Let's go.' I give the guys credit for not giving up. You don't want to get down three, but it was good that we didn't give up."

Dubois gave Winnipeg a 1-0 lead on a breakaway at 18:34 of the first period after a pass from Blake Wheeler.
Eyessimont's first NHL goal made it 2-0 at 6:44 of the second period. After Kochetkov stopped David Gustafsson on a breakaway, the 26-year-old forward finished on the rebound from the right hash marks.
"It was a one-knee drop on my forehand," Eyssimont said. "I had quite a bit of net to shoot at, and there were some bodies flying around the net. I just had to tap it in."
Morrissey gave the Jets a 3-0 lead at 3:56 of the third period when he picked up a drop pass from Wheeler inside the offensive zone, drove the net and scored on a wrist shot.
"We were really good, we didn't give them much," Rittich said. "That's what we've talked about since [training] camp: to be resilient, to work hard, to play 60 minutes, to do right things at right times, which we're doing."
Winnipeg coach Rick Bowness gave his team credit for working through Carolina's late comeback.
"We'll focus on the really good 55 minutes that we played, and we will figure out what we could have done better in the last couple," Bowness said. "Again, give our guys credit. Perseverance. You stay and fight."

NOTES:The Jets were 2-for-2 on the penalty kill and are 22-for-23 (95.6 percent) in their past 10 games. ... Morrissey's two-goal game was his first in the NHL (440 games). … Winnipeg defenseman Ville Heinola had one blocked shot in 11:48 in his first NHL game of the season. The 21-year-old, who was selected in the first round (No. 20) of the 2019 NHL Draft, was recalled from Manitoba of the American Hockey League on Nov. 16. … The Hurricanes are 0-for-16 on the power play in the past five games. … Kochetkov is 5-0-2 in seven regular-season NHL games (six starts).