Duclair gives Panthers OT victory, ends Hurricanes winning streak at five

RALEIGH, N.C. --Anthony Duclair scored his second goal of the game at 2:53 of overtime to give the Florida Panthers a 4-3 win against the Carolina Hurricanes at PNC Arena on Saturday.

Duclair took a pass from Jonathan Huberdeau on a give-and-go for the game-winner.
"'Huby' is such a special player," Duclair said. "He's one of the best playmakers in the League, the best that I've ever played with. Any time I get the puck, I try to get it in his hands and try to get open because it's coming right back."
Carter Verhaeghe scored two goals for the Panthers (23-7-5), who are 5-0-1 in their past six games. Sergei Bobrovsky made 24 saves.
"Every line brought something," Panthers coach Andrew Brunette said. "We had no passengers tonight. I thought everybody came ready to play hard."
Teuvo Teravainen, Brady Skjei and Seth Jarvis scored, and Sebastian Aho had two assists for the Hurricanes (24-7-2), who had won five in a row. Alex Lyon made 32 saves after being activated from the taxi squad before the game to replace Antti Raanta, who was scratched with an upper-body injury.
"It was tough to find a handful of guys you could say, 'Wow, they're on their game tonight,'" Hurricanes coach Rod Brind'Amour said. "When you're playing a team like that and you're not sharp, it's going to be tough. We can't spot teams periods where we're not very good. That's not going to work."

The Panthers scored on their first shot to take a 1-0 lead at 1:05 of the first period. Duclair fed Huberdeau, who scored five-hole from the slot.
Teravainen tied it 1-1 with a power-play goal at 3:34, scoring from the left face-off circle on a wrist shot under the crossbar. Tony DeAngelo had an assist, his 100th in the NHL.
Verhaeghe scored his ninth of the season on a wrist shot to give the Panthers a 2-1 lead at 17:40.
"I think tonight we kind of grinded it out," Verhaeghe said. "We got off to a good start and just kept rolling."
Verhaeghe pushed the lead to 3-1 at 35 seconds of the second period when he gathered the puck at Florida's offensive blue line and scored off the rush.
"When he gets flying like he did tonight, it's real dangerous," Duclair said. "He's real hard to contain. When he uses his shot too, he's the full package."
Skjei one-timed a pass from Brett Pesce to cut Florida's lead to 3-2 at 14:14. The goal was Skjei's fourth in the past three games.
Jarvis split the defense and scored on a wrist shot to tie it 3-3 at 1:45 of the third period.
"Right when I pushed off, I felt like I had open space," Jarvis said. "It was just a matter of keeping my feet moving. When I pulled away, that's when I set my feet and picked my spot. I was lucky enough that it went in."

The Panthers improved to 5-4-5 on the road. They are 18-3-0 at home.
"I don't know if we've brought our A-game a lot of nights on the road," Brunette said. "All the great teams are good road teams. We're trying to get there, and this is a little bit of a hill for us to climb. Hopefully this is a nice step."
Lyon was playing his second NHL game this season. He made 27 saves in a 3-2 win against the St. Louis Blues on Nov. 13.
"He'd probably like to have the first one back, but then he dug in and made some real big saves that allowed us to at least get back in the game," Brind'Amour said. "He was good."
NOTES: Huberdeau has scored 13 points (three goals, 10 assists) in a five-game point streak. … Duclair has scored eight points (five goals, three assists) in his past six games. … Panthers center Aleksander Barkov won 23 of 32 face-offs (71.9 percent). … Florida defenseman Radko Gudas had a season-high 10 hits. … The Panthers goal in the second period was their 16th straight regulation period with at least one goal, breaking their record of 15 from Oct. 19-29. They did not score in the third period. … Aho has scored 17 points (five goals, 12 assists) in the past nine games. … Carolina forward Jesperi Kotkaniemi had his six-game point streak end (one goal, seven assists). … Hurricanes forward Aleksi Heponiemi played 10:44 in place of Patric Hornqvist, who was placed in NHL COVID-19 protocol prior to the game. … Carolina split back-to-back games after defeating the Calgary Flames 6-3 on Friday.