In Raleigh, Jonathan Huberdeau popped his second goal of the game, midway through extra time to give the Florida Panthers a 4-3 win over the Carolina Hurricanes on Wednesday evening.
“He did a lot of good things,” Florida head coach Joel Quenneville said. “The power-play goal, the [overtime] goal, but the pass was the highlight for me. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen him play like that.”
Chris Driedger made 32 saves for the win.
“I thought he (Driedger) handled the puck well,” Quenneville said. “He had a lot of composure when he came out of the net to make plays and stop their forecheck. But that save there at the end was very remarkable. Very timely.”
Florida improved to 10-2-2.
Jordan Staal and Sebastian Aho staked the Canes to a 2-0 lead.
“Being down 2-0, it’s a big response by us,” Huberdeau said. “After the first period, we came back in the room, we didn’t panic. [Driedger] was good in the net. It’s a big team win.”
Vincent Trocheck also scored for Carolina.
“The way we finished that game was disappointing,” Staal said. “We were in control in the first, and we let them back into it with sloppy play and just not being sharp.”
Alex Wennberg and Juho Lammikko added single markers for the Panthers in regulation.
“It felt pretty good,” Lammikko said. “It’s been a long time. We got the win in a really good comeback, and that’s huge.”
Carolina dropped to 10-3-1.
“We were ready to play, we played our game,” Aho said. “We got the pucks deep, we went on the forecheck, we got a lot of pucks back. But the last two periods and overtime, we were missing details.”
Alex Nedeljkovic made 33 saves. in the loss.
“I thought everything changed after that,” Carolina head coach Rod Brind’Amour said. “I thought we were on our heels the whole rest of the way. We were probably fortunate we even got a point out of it.”
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