In Raleigh, the visiting Colorado Avalanche broke out to a 2-0 lead Friday night before the Carolina Hurricanes rallied to tie.
Samuel Girard rescued the Avs with a third period strike for a 3-2 win and their fifth straight.
“Games like that, I’ve got mixed feelings,” Avalanche coach Jared Bednar said. “It’s not perfect, it’s certainly not pretty, but there’s something to be said about sticking with it and being able to come up and capitalize.”
Pavel Francouz made 45 saves to get the win for the Avs.
“That’s their style of hockey, they’re just throwing everything to the net,” Francouz said. “For a goalie, games like this, it’s just fun. It’s always fun to be in the game all the time.”
Teuvo Teravainen rallied the Canes with two third period goals.
“It’s going to be a long one, but we have one game tomorrow and we have to prepare, just try to get some positives off this game,” Teravainen said. “We can’t go into tomorrow feeling bad about this game. Just try to be strong again tomorrow (against the Montreal Canadiens).”
Tyson Jost struck for two goals to stake the Avs to the 2-0 lead.
“In the third period for sure, we had a great mind set,” Hurricanes defenseman Brady Skjei said. “We had our looks and they had theirs. They capitalized on theirs just a little more than ours.”
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Anton Forsberg made 29 saves in his first NHL start.
“I thought it was great other than the result and the one gaffe at the end,” Hurricanes coach Rod Brind’Amour said. “I thought it was a great game playing against a great team.”
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