After a slow first period, the Carolina Hurricanes sharpened up their game and went on the defeat the Anaheim Ducks, 5-2 on Thursday night at the Lenovo Center.<\/p>\n
It was the third straight win for Carolina while the Ducks have now lost eight in a row.<\/p>\n
The home team got off to a bit of a slow start and fell behind 1-0 in the first but they turned things around in the second.<\/p>\n
They outshot the Ducks 19-3 in that period and put three goals up on the board.<\/p>\n
First, Mark Jankowski got things started when he took the puck to the net.<\/p>\n
Shortly after, Granlund scored from in close but that would be it for Anaheim.<\/p>\n
Two minutes after that score, Taylor Hall made a perfect feed to an open Logan Stankoven to tie things up again. That made three goals in the last three games for Stankoven.<\/p>\n
Jalen Chatfield blasted in a shot to give the Canes a 3-2 lead going into the second intermission. It was Chatfield\u2019s 300th NHL game.<\/p>\n
The Canes continued to shut down the opposition in the third as the Ducks could only manage another four shots in that period.<\/p>\n
Carolina goaltender, Fred Andersen did what he needed to do and stopped the shots he saw to earn his first win since early November. The win put an end to a nine game losing streak for Andersen.<\/p>\n
Midway through the third, Jackson Blake made a pretty backhander off an Alexander Nikishin shot to put the home team up by two.<\/p>\n
Taylor Hall notched an empty-netter to close out the scoring.<\/p>\n
In all, the Canes outshot the Ducks, 35-13.<\/p>\n
Carolina dominated the faceoff circle winning 64%.<\/p>\n
The Hurricanes will take Friday off and will prepare to take on the Seattle Kraken on Saturday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a slow first period, the Carolina Hurricanes sharpened up their game and went on the defeat the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5107],"tags":[194,29,34852,5176,5,195,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-399046","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-hurricanes","8":"tag-carolina","9":"tag-carolina-hurricanes","10":"tag-carolina-hurricanes-game-recaps","11":"tag-carolinahurricanes","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-hurricanes","14":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115863690029769873","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}