In Raleigh, the Vancouver Canucks’ Brock Boeser scored with 17 seconds leftr in regulation on Sunday to tie the Hurricanes, 3-3, and send their match to extra time.
“It’s been pretty much one-goal games this whole time,” Vancouver captain Bo Horvat said. “We fought our way back and at least made it interesting in a lot of games. To finally get rewarded tonight definitely feels good.”
The extra session solved nothing, and Elias Pettersson was credited with the game-winner on penalties, for a 4-3 win to Canucks.
Collin Delia made 29 saves in the Canucks win.
“We didn’t try to overcomplicate it in our own zone or in the neutral zone,” Delia said. “We got pucks deep, we had good retrievals, good support, good back pressure. I think our habits were really good tonight.”
Vancouver improved to 18-22-3.
“I think they earned that. They’ve been coming so close,” Vancouver coach Bruce Boudreau said. “Even in the third, I thought we were playing really good, and they score with three minutes to go. But again, they said, ‘No, we’re not giving up,’ and they went out there and scored and we got the shootout win. So it’s great.”
Vancouver’s J.T. Miller tied the game, 2-2, early in the third period.
Sebastian Aho put the Canes up, 3-2, at 2L54 of the third.
Carolina dropped to 27-9-8.
“We weren’t very good. We were flat, tired. You could just tell,” Carolina coach Rod Brind’Amour said. “We were fighting it all night. They were good, but we were not.”
The Hurricanes took a 210 lead in the game on a first period goal from Paul Stastny.
Jordan Martinook pushed the advantage to 2-0 in the middle frame.
“The second half of a back-to-back, you have to find a way to create your own energy,” Martinook said. “It’s a hard league, you’ve got to create that energy somehow. We were trying. It just wasn’t 100 percent there tonight.”
Vancouver rallied with a goal in the second from Ethan Bear to make it 2-1 headed to the third.
“It was an emotional game for me. I had a lot to prove tonight,” Bear said. “To score tonight, it felt great on top of the win. They’re a really good team over there. They do everything right. It just shows that we can do it, too. As long as we stick to it, we’re right there.”
The win snapped a four-game slide for the Canucks.
Pyotr Kochetkov made 29 saves. in the Carolina loss.
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