Martinook \u2014 who was stopped on a penalty shot in the first OT \u2014 kept the winning play alive by chasing down a loose rebound toward the boards to keep the possession in the offensive zone. Moments later, Nikolaj Ehlers found Martinook between the circles to beat Ullmark, who was partially shielded by Carolina captain Jordan Staal at the top of the crease.<\/p>\n
That set off a mob celebration by the Hurricanes around Martinook in a corner of the ice, ending a game that saw them hang on despite blowing a 2-0 lead and\u00a0having an apparent winner by Mark Jankowski waved off\u00a0in the first overtime due to an offside call on review.<\/p>\n
The Hurricanes still had a chance to win it after the overturned goal, only for Ullmark to stop Martinook on the NHL’s first OT post-season penalty-shot attempt since 2020.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn’t feel very good about myself after that penalty shot, and that intermission felt really long,” Martinook said. \u201cThat was cool. I’m happy it worked out that way. It didn’t matter who scored, but it was going to be a long night if that penalty shot came back to bite me.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Eastern Conference’s top seed managed to protect home-ice advantage \u2014 barely \u2014 as the series moves to Canada\u2019s capital for Game 3 on Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s the toughest thing: You have it won, a hard-fought game, and then to have it turned over,” Carolina coach Rod Brind’Amour said. “You\u2019ve got to give the guys tons of credit, because our game didn\u2019t change. We actually got better, I think, in the second overtime.\u201d<\/p>\n
Logan Stankoven and Sebastian Aho also scored for Carolina, while Frederik Andersen shook off giving up two second-period goals to finish with 37 saves and multiple key stops late.<\/p>\n
Drake Batherson and Dylan Cozens scored for Ottawa, while Ullmark finished with 43 saves and was terrific all night. He had multiple big stops in the second period, one when he extended his glove to knock down a hammered one-timer from Taylor Hall as the puck shifted cross-ice to his left side. Another came in the final seconds of regulation when he got his left shoulder on Staal’s shot from the top of the crease.<\/p>\n
\u201cA hell of an effort,\u201d Senators coach Travis Green said. \u201cPlayoffs are hard sometimes. Some of the games you lose, they sting. This one’s going to sting.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Hurricanes appeared to have pushed through late in the first OT, with Jankowski skating in to pounce on a loose rebound and beat Ullmark on the left side with 2:42 left to send the home crowd into a frenzy. But officials reviewed the sequence and determined that Staal didn\u2019t have possession and control of the puck as he entered the zone, coming as Martinook skated through the middle across the blue line for a 1-on-1 chance on Ullmark.<\/p>\n
That sequence ultimately led to a hooking penalty on Warren Foegele, with Carolina scrambling an extra attacker and getting Jankowski\u2019s offside-overturned score and then Martinook’s penalty shot.<\/p>\n
\u201cHockey\u2019s crazy, sports are crazy,\u201d Martinook said. \u201cBeing able to score after that, I\u2019ll tell my grandkids about that one, that\u2019s for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Senators played without defenseman Artem Zub, who left Game 1 with an undisclosed injury. He had been considered a game-time decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Martinook \u2014 who was stopped on a penalty shot in the first OT \u2014 kept the winning play…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-618292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618292","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=618292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}