Seth Jarvis dropped a backhand pass to Aho, who skated into the offensive zone and beat Anton Forsberg with a wrist shot over the right pad from the high slot.<\/p>\n
Jordan Staal and Alexander Nikishin scored, and Shayne Gostisbehere had two assists for the Hurricanes (34-15-6), who extended their point streak to eight games (6-0-2). Bussi made 11 saves and improved to 21-3-1 in his first NHL season.<\/p>\n
Samuel Helenius and Quinton Byfield scored for the Kings (23-17-14), who are 4-1-4 in their past nine games and finished a five-game road trip 3-1-1. Forsberg made 31 saves.<\/p>\n
Staal opened the scoring with a power-play goal at 6:25 of the first period. After winning the face-off in the left circle, Staal glided to the slot, where he redirected a pass from Andrei Svechnikov past Forsberg’s blocker.<\/p>\n
Kings defenseman Drew Doughty dove into the crease to deny Jarvis’ backhander from in front at 18:34 of the second period, keeping it a one-goal game.<\/p>\n
Nikishin made it 2-0 at 12:57 of the third period. He intercepted Brandt Clarke\u2019s clearing attempt and buried a snap shot from the slot that went in off the left post.<\/p>\n
Helenius cut the deficit to 2-1 jut 24 seconds later at 13:21, taking a cross-ice pass from Jeff Malott and scoring on a wrist shot from the right circle.<\/p>\n
Byfield tied it 2-2 at 16:49. Adrian Kempe curled behind the net and fed a centering pass in front to Byfield, who tapped the puck past the right skate of Bussi.<\/p>\n
Los Angeles defenseman Mikey Anderson left 32 seconds into the first period with an upper-body injury after being hit into the boards by Carolina forward Jordan Martinook. He returned briefly in the first before leaving again and did not return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seth Jarvis dropped a backhand pass to Aho, who skated into the offensive zone and beat Anton Forsberg…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-452557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}