Carolina Hurricanes 2015 5th overall draft pick Noah Hanifin tallied his first point in the National Hockey League on Saturday night with an assist on Victor Rask’s second period goal against the Detroit Red Wings.
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Pulkkinen, who led the AHL in scoring with 34 goals last season with Grand Rapids, was unchecked in front of the crease, beating Canes goalie Cam Ward for his first goal and tying the game at2.
Mrazek was sharp in the opening minutes as the Red Wings found themselves killing a two-man Carolina power play for 46 seconds, stopping Eric Staal on a great scoring attempt in close. He stopped all of first-period shots. Shots were 18-2 to Carolina.
After the Red Wings struggled for two periods Detroit coach Jeff Blashill shuffled his lines by putting Dylan Larkin between Tomas Tatar and Teem Pulkkinen.
■In the second period: The Hurricanes began with a minute left on a power play.
Then it happened – the Red Wings scored first at 11:33 of the second period. The Red Wings returned just two at the Hurricanes.
“It helps when the pucks hit you and they don’t go in”, Mrazek said of the quick flurry so early in the game.
Zetterberg scored when he collected the puck in the right circle, maneuvered around Jordan Staal and beat Ward, who played well in a 2-1 loss Thursday to the Nashville Predators in Carolina’s season opener.
It was Hanifin’s time to shine as he put a shot over the net which subsequently rebounded off the glass and back over the crossbar where Rask batted it into the net while in mid-air. Henrik Zetterberg, Justin Abdelkader and Teemu Pulkkinen scored all of the goals to beat the Carolina Hurricanes 4-2. “We’ll be OK. We just have to correct a few things”. In total Mrazek made 44 saves on the night for a. 936 save percentage. Nathan Gerbe tipped Ryan Murphy’s centering pass at 19:03. Wisniewski will miss six months after tearing a knee ligament in the opener….
Peters said the loss should not deflate his team, which faces the Florida Panthers on Tuesday at PNC Arena.
“We broke down in the D-zone”, Peters said.
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“Petr held us in for those two periods and we killed too many penalties, but in the third period I thought we really started skating”. “We’ve got to do it again, play the same way”. It would have been nice to get on the board a little earlier but we didn’t.
