Point set up at the crease and redirected a pass from D’Astous into an open net behind Kochetkov to make it 3-2 at 1:20.<\/p>\n
“There’s a lot of accountability on this team, a lot of guys speaking up in the room after that first period,” McDonagh said, “We were embarrassed. You feed off that first shift [of the second period]. Obviously they score a goal and they set the tone right away for us.”<\/p>\n
Finley tied it 3-3 on a breakaway at 16:36 when he put a rebound past Kochetkov’s left skate after his initial shot was stopped.<\/p>\n
“The first period wasn’t great, but I thought in the second we came out hard and stuck with it in the third,” Finley said. “That just shows the character in this room. [Dominic] James was driving our line all night. It was a team effort.”<\/p>\n
Svechnikov regained a 4-3 lead for Carolina at 2:47 of the third period, skating in on a 2-on-1 and lifting a pass from Mark Jankowski<\/a> over Vasilevskiy’s left pad.<\/p>\n “We’ve got to be hard to play against,” Staal said. “I think we got a little soft. It ended up being a shootout but in the wrong direction for us.”<\/p>\n McDonagh tied the game 4-4 at 3:13 after breaking through two defenders and slipping the puck between Kochetkov’s pads.<\/p>\n “It was a good 40-minute game, we’re trying to get closer to a 60-minute game here at home,” McDonagh said. “But obviously a good response in the end.”<\/p>\n Guentzel scored into the empty net at 19:33 for the 6-4 final.<\/p>\n “Three in four nights, you can feel it,” Brind’Amour said. “This is part of the schedule that you have to grind out and we didn’t tonight.”<\/p>\n NOTES: With an assist, Lightning forward Nikita Kucherov<\/a> recorded his fourth calendar year with at least 110 regular-season points and tied Jari Kurri<\/a> and Peter Stastny<\/a> for the second-highest total by a player born outside North America. The only players with more are Leon Draisaitl<\/a> and Jaromir Jagr<\/a> (both with five). … Point has eight points (three goals, five assists) over his past six games. … Hurricanes defenseman Jaccob Slavin<\/a> was a healthy scratch as Brind’Amour did not want to play him in back-to-back games as he continued to work his way back from a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Point set up at the crease and redirected a pass from D’Astous into an open net behind Kochetkov…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-359392","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}