{"id":515662,"date":"2026-03-21T23:19:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T23:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/515662\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T23:19:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T23:19:53","slug":"nikishin-scores-in-ot-to-lift-the-east-leading-hurricanes-past-the-maple-leafs-4-3-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/515662\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikishin scores in OT to lift the East-leading Hurricanes past the Maple Leafs, 4-3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Alexander Nikishin scored 41 seconds into overtime to give the Eastern Conference-leading Carolina Hurricanes a 4-3 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Nikishin fired a shot beyond goalie Joseph Woll\u2019s blocker.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Eric Robinson scored on a penalty shot for Carolina, K\u2019Andre Miller and Jordan Staal also had goals, and Brandon Bussi made 23 saves. Seth Jarvis and Sebastian Aho each had two assists.<\/p>\n<p>John Tavares, William Nylander and Dakota Joshua scored for Toronto. Woll stopped 32 shots, and Matias Maccelli had two assists.<\/p>\n<p>Robinson scored on the penalty shot in the second period after being hooked on a breakaway by defenseman Troy Stecher. The Carolina winger beat Woll to the glove side.<\/p>\n<p>Aho became the third player to hit at least 70 points in five seasons with the Hurricanes\/Hartford Whalers franchise. Ron Francis (11) and Eric Staal (seven) top the list.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Toronto captain Auston Matthews had surgery on his left MCL in New York on Thursday. He was injured last week on a knee-on-knee hit from Anaheim defenseman Radko Gudas.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Hurricanes: At Pittsburgh on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Maple Leafs: At Ottawa on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NHL: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;https&quot;}\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Alexander Nikishin scored 41 seconds into overtime to give the Eastern Conference-leading Carolina Hurricanes a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5107],"tags":[28,532,19349,194,29,5176,8080,1111,5681,5,195,611,1284,3821,10077,4,72,1469,9464,1174,1177,31,5928,1114],"class_list":["post-515662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-carolina-hurricanes","tag-alexander-nikishin","tag-auston-matthews","tag-brandon-bussi","tag-carolina","tag-carolina-hurricanes","tag-carolinahurricanes","tag-dakota-joshua","tag-eric-robinson","tag-eric-staal","tag-hockey","tag-hurricanes","tag-john-tavares","tag-jordan-staal","tag-joseph-woll","tag-matias-maccelli","tag-nhl","tag-ottawa","tag-pittsburgh","tag-radko-gudas","tag-sebastian-aho","tag-seth-jarvis","tag-toronto-maple-leafs","tag-troy-stecher","tag-william-nylander"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116269732545863867","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515662","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=515662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}