Hurricanes beat Flyers on Taylor Hall’s OT goal for 2-0 lead
RALEIGH, NC — Taylor Hall slipped the puck previous Dan Vladar at 18:54 of additional time to assist the Carolina Hurricanes beat the Philadelphia Flyers 3-2 on Monday night time, taking a 2-0 lead of their second-round sequence within the NHL playoffs.
Hall took a brief feed from Sean Walker and carried the puck in on the left facet earlier than being knocked to his knees close to the highest of the crease. But Hall hopped up as Jackson Blake battled for the unfastened puck, corralled it and beat Vladar to cap an evening that noticed the Hurricanes fall behind 2-0 shortly for their first deficit of the postseason.
Afterward, Hall mentioned he did not even notice he had fallen down till he watched a replay afterward.
“When you score in overtime, it seems like parts of your memory kind of go,” Hall mentioned, including later: “I was in another time zone there for a second.”
The sequence shifts to Philadelphia for Thursday’s Game 3.
Seth Jarvis had the third-period goal that compelled additional time for Carolina, and Nikolaj Ehlers additionally scored. Frederik Andersen completed with 34 saves to assist the Hurricanes enhance to 6-0 within the postseason.
Still, this one was something however simple in contrast with the smothering first interval that paved the way in which to a 3-0 win in Monday’s Game 1. Flyers coach Rick Tocchet had talked concerning the want for his gamers to react shortly towards Carolina’s aggression and pace and carry the puck extra into the robust areas of the ice.
The Flyers did that early, with Jamie Drysdale and Sean Couturier scoring in a 39-second span of the primary interval for the Flyers. And they outshot Carolina 15-8 in additional time in a way more assertive displaying, however the Flyers could not beat Andersen once more after that flurry within the first 5 minutes.
Vladar had 40 saves, together with twice stopping Carolina’s Eric Robinson on second-period breakaways. He additionally bought a well timed little bit of assist in that interval from Travis Sanheimwho cleared a unfastened puck that had slipped behind Vladar within the crease to disclaim Carolina a tying rating.
Tocchet felt extra power from his Flyers — of their first postseason since 2020 — within the aftermath of the Game 1 loss.
“I thought the young guys competed,” he mentioned. “I’m really proud of these guys. They just made the play at the end, that’s it.”
Ehlers’ one-timer on the facility play bought Carolina on the board within the first. Then Ehlers fed a trailing Jarvis to beat Vladar from the appropriate facet halfway by way of the third interval, finally forcing OT.
It was a penalty-filled night time with the groups combining to go 2-for-13 with the person benefit, which derailed both staff from getting in a lot of a 5-on-5 rhythm and left it to Vladar and Andersen to provide you with huge stops all the night time.
“Goaltending was not the issue tonight for any team,” Carolina coach Rod Brind’Amour mentioned.
Philadelphia performed a second straight recreation with out regular-season targets chief Owen Tippett attributable to an undisclosed damage, and Carolina defenseman Alexander Nikishin he took warmups however did not play as he continues his restoration from a concussion suffered within the clinching recreation of the first-round sweep of Ottawa.
