Hurricanes top Islanders in OT in Game 2, extend East 1st Round lead

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Jesper Fast scored at 5:03 of overtime, giving the Carolina Hurricanes a 4-3 win against the New York Islanders in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference First Round at PNC Arena on Wednesday.

Fast took a cross-ice pass from Jordan Staal and scored on a wrist shot from the right face-off circle.
"[Brent Burns] made a great play to 'Jordo' to the far side," Fast said. "I just tried to drive the back post. Great feeling. I was aiming far side. It felt like it was a pretty good shot."
Jaccob Slavin had a goal and an assist, and Antti Raanta made 23 saves for the Hurricanes, the No. 1 seed in the Metropolitan Division.

Carolina leads the best-of-7 series. Game 3 will be at New York on Friday.
"They're a good team," Hurricanes coach Rod Brind'Amour said. "They had us on the ropes. My guys came back and said, 'Enough,' and they gave it back. It wasn't a pretty game by us. New York was good. Certainly in spurts we were OK."
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Carolina forward Teuvo Teravainen broke his left hand in the third period and will have surgery Thursday, sidelining him for the series. He was taking a shot when his glove was hit by the stick of New York forward Jean-Gabriel Pageau with 4:24 left in the period.
Brock Nelson and Kyle Palmieri each had a goal and an assist for the Islanders, the first wild card in the East. Ilya Sorokin made 33 saves.
"I thought we made more plays tonight," New York coach Lane Lambert said. "I thought it was a good hockey game. It was a hard-fought hockey game by two good teams. A game where we were physical and we continued to hit and we continued to invest, so that's what we have to do. We just have to be ready for the next one."
Paul Stastny put the Hurricanes up 1-0 at 5:49 of the first period. Slavin one-timed a pass from along the right boards, and Stastny tipped the puck past Sorokin at the top of the crease.
Stefan Noesen pushed the lead to 2-0 with a power-play goal at 7:19 of the second period. After Noesen chipped the puck from inside the blue line near the right boards, Islanders defenseman Sebastian Aho batted the puck out of the air and sent it past Sorokin's right pad on one bounce.

Palmieri cut it to 2-1 at 10:48 when he circled the net and scored through the five-hole from low in the right circle.
The Islanders tied it 2-2 with 21 seconds remaining in the period. Adam Pelech intercepted a pass from Brady Skjei in the neutral zone and pushed the puck ahead to Mathew Barzal, who scored on a glove-side wrist shot from above the slot.
Nelson gave New York a 3-2 lead at 9:18 of the third period when he took a pass from Palmieri in the neutral zone and slipped past Carolina forward Martin Necas before scoring on a wrist shot from the left circle.
"As a goalie, you let those goals in, especially now after the game, you can look at those and think where you can do better," Raanta said. "The win is the only thing that matters. They guys played great in front of me."
Slavin tied it 3-3 at 12:19 when he pinched down to the goal line on the left side and scored off Sorokin's mask inside the near post.
"Honestly, I was looking for the pass the whole time," Slavin said, "then [at the] last second, I saw his head and put it in the vicinity and ended up getting a lucky bounce."
Despite losing the first two games, the Islanders said they feel good about their chances heading home.
"Two fluky goals that usually don't go in," New York forward Zach Parise said. "We played well enough to win, and we'll move forward and do our best to grab the third one.
"You look at the good things. We were in the driver's seat. We were in a good position to win the game. It didn't happen, but I think if you look at the game as a whole we'll leave there saying to ourselves that there's a lot of really good things that we did and just a couple fluky goals. That's the difference."
NOTES: Hurricanes goalie Frederik Andersen did not dress because of an illness. He was scheduled to be the backup; it was Pyotr Kochetkov instead. … The Hurricanes/Hartford Whalers franchise is 28-17 in overtime Stanley Cup Playoff games. ... Brind'Amour got his 26th Stanley Cup Playoff win, passing Paul Maurice for the most in franchise history. … In addition to Teravainen, Carolina is without forwards Andrei Svechnikov and Max Pacioretty. Each has a torn ACL.