In Raleigh Friday night, Sebastian Aho showed why he’s the talk of the NHL for now as he extended his season-opening point streak to 10 games in a 4-3 Carolina Hurricanes win over the San Jose Sharks in a shootout.
Aho picked up an assist to extend the streak; he has four goals and 11 assists in the streak.
“It was a great game,” Hurricanes coach Rod Brind’Amour said. “That’s exciting. That’s the way hockey should be played, I think. I know there were lots of mistakes, but I was on the edge of my seat, and I had a pretty good one.”
Petr Mrazek made 20 saves to get the win.
Dougie Hamilton, Brock McGinn and Teuvo Teravainen struck for the Canes in regulation and McGinn was credited with the deciding goal in the skills competition.
The Sharks, who dropped to 5-3-2, got goals from Antti Suomela, Timo Meier and Tomas Hertl.
The Sharks held two-goals leads twice in the game.
“I walked out at the end of the first period, where we could have been up 4-0, and we never won another race or a battle the rest of the night,” Sharks head coach Peter DeBoer said. “I guess the lesson in that is the NHL still plays 60-minute games, not 20-minute games.”
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Aaron Dell made 38 saves.
“We played a really good first period, we were ready and executed. We stuck to our game plan and outshot them, and then we just stopped playing. I don’t know if we felt they were just going to roll over, but you can see the pressure they can put on you. Once you lose that momentum, it’s almost impossible to get it back,” DeBoer said after the dismal loss.
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