{"id":522673,"date":"2026-03-25T21:29:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T21:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/522673\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T21:29:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T21:29:26","slug":"caufield-scores-his-44th-and-dobes-makes-41-saves-to-lead-canadiens-past-hurricanes-5-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/522673\/","title":{"rendered":"Caufield scores his 44th and Dobes makes 41 saves to lead Canadiens past Hurricanes 5-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL (AP) \u2014 Cole Caufield scored his 44th goal of the season and Jakub Dobes made 41 saves as the Montreal Canadiens held off the Carolina Hurricanes for a 5-2 win on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Juraj Slafkovsky and Ivan Demidov had a goal and an assist each, and Oliver Kapanen also scored as Montreal erased a two-goal deficit for its second consecutive win.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Jake Evans buried an empty-net goal with 1 minute left in regulation and Caufield added an assist for a two-point night.<\/p>\n<p>Nikolaj Ehlers and Jordan Staal scored for Eastern Conference-leading Carolina, which lost for the first time in four games.<\/p>\n<p>Frederik Andersen stopped 14 shots.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadiens sit third in the Atlantic Division with 88 points. The New York Islanders, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/blackhawks-islanders-score-frondell-eedee3c86110b4b7ec05c75f2a2a7f2c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:who lost on Tuesday;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;who lost on Tuesday&quot;}\" class=\"link \">who lost on Tuesday<\/a> and are the top team outside the Eastern Conference playoff picture, trailed by three points.<\/p>\n<p>Ehlers opened the scoring on the power play 2:36 into the first period when Montreal defenseman Mike Matheson deflected his pass intended for Seth Jarvis into the Canadiens\u2019 net. Staal doubled the lead at 7:09, beating Dobes glove side.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Kapanen tipped in Struble\u2019s point shot at 12:11 to give the Canadiens some life before Montreal struck twice in the second period.<\/p>\n<p>Caufield trails <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/avalanche-penguins-score-904db4b72ca473689617ae1e64ce9f2a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Colorado Avalanche superstar Nathan MacKinnon;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;Colorado Avalanche superstar Nathan MacKinnon&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Colorado Avalanche superstar Nathan MacKinnon<\/a> by two goals for the league lead. No Canadien has led the NHL in goals since Guy Lafleur in 1977-78.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadiens secured their 24th comeback win of the season, tying for the most in a single season in franchise history (1992-93, 1975-76).<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Hurricanes: Host New Jersey on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Canadiens: End a three-game homestand against Columbus on Thursday.<\/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":"MONTREAL (AP) \u2014 Cole Caufield scored his 44th goal of the season and Jakub Dobes made 41 saves&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5107],"tags":[194,29,5176,971,144,60597,1239,5,195,638,639,909,1284,976,1192,21,517,576,159,4,794,1618,1177],"class_list":["post-522673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-carolina-hurricanes","tag-carolina","tag-carolina-hurricanes","tag-carolinahurricanes","tag-cole-caufield","tag-colorado-avalanche","tag-eastern-conference-leading-carolina","tag-frederik-andersen","tag-hockey","tag-hurricanes","tag-ivan-demidov","tag-jake-evans","tag-jakub-dobes","tag-jordan-staal","tag-juraj-slafkovsky","tag-mike-matheson","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-nathan-mackinnon","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-york-islanders","tag-nhl","tag-nikolaj-ehlers","tag-oliver-kapanen","tag-seth-jarvis"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116291945892704786","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522673","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=522673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}