In Raleigh, Andrei Svechnikov scored the second of his two goals on the night, off the power play, in the third period to ice the Carolina Hurricanes’ 6-3 win over the visiting New York Islanders on Thursday night.
“We played great, and I tried to play good,” Svechnikov said. “It’s the first game and you’ve got that energy because you didn’t play for four months. We’ll see in the long run.”
Teuvo Teravainen also scored in the third to give the Canes a 5-3 lead.
Frederik Andersen made 25 saves in the win.
“I thought our first period was pretty good,” Islanders head coach Barry Trotz said. “They were on their toes. They’re a quick-start team. I thought we handled that pretty well.”
Anders Lee, Mathew Barzal and Brock Nelson scored for the Isles.
“It’s one of the first games where we kind of saw a little bit of everything,” Lee said. “I think there was some moments where we could have been cleaner with the execution. It’s one of those nights where you’re facing a good team, and they’re going to capitalize.”
Jordan Martinook and Nino Niederreiter also scored for Carolina.
“The puck went that direction, so as soon as Chara pushed me, I knew it was going to go in eventually,” Niederreiter said.
Svechnikov’s second goal was scored into an empty net.
“Both teams played really well, I thought,” Carolina head coach Rod Brind’Amour said. “They would probably say they gave up too much, and I thought we gave up a little too much, but it was an exciting game.”
Ilya Sorokin made 35 saves in the loss.
“I think there were times when we were a little messy,” Lee said. “[Sorokin] stood on his head a few times and kept us in that game and kept a close grip and gave us a chance to come back. That’s all you can ask from him. But defensively, we have some stuff to clean up.”
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