{"id":618562,"date":"2026-04-21T10:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T10:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/618562\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T10:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T10:08:14","slug":"jordan-martinooks-double-ot-winner-leads-carolina-hurricanes-past-ottawa-senators-in-game-2-for-2-0-series-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/618562\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan Martinook\u2019s double-OT winner leads Carolina Hurricanes past Ottawa Senators in Game 2 for 2-0 series lead"},"content":{"rendered":"

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) \u2014 Jordan Martinook<\/a> beat Linus Ullmark<\/a> from the slot at 13:53 of the second overtime to help the Carolina Hurricanes<\/a> beat the Ottawa Senators<\/a> 3-2 on Monday night and take a 2-0 lead in their first-round series in the NHL playoffs.<\/p>\n

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<\/a> found Martinook between the circles to beat Ullmark, who was partially shielded by Carolina captain Jordan Staal<\/a> 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 having an apparent winner by Mark Jankowski<\/a> waved off in the first overtime due to an offside call on review.<\/p>\n

Making matters worse, the Hurricanes still had a chance to win it after the overturned goal, only for Ullmark to stop Martinook on the NHL\u2019s first OT postseason playoff shot since 2020.<\/p>\n

No matter, the Eastern Conference\u2019s 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

Logan Stankoven<\/a> and Sebastian Aho<\/a> also scored for Carolina, while Frederik Andersen<\/a> shook off giving up two second-period goals to finish with 37 saves and multiple key stops late.<\/p>\n

Drake Batherson<\/a> and Dylan Cozens<\/a> 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<\/a> 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\u2019s shot from the top of the crease.<\/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<\/a>, with Carolina scrambling an extra attacker and getting Jankowski\u2019s offside-overturned score. <\/p>\n

The Senators played without defenseman Artem Zub<\/a>, who left Game 1 with an undisclosed injury. He had been considered a game-time decision.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NHL playoffs: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/stanley-cup and https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/p>\n

Aaron Beard, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) \u2014 Jordan Martinook beat Linus Ullmark from the slot at 13:53 of the second overtime…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,96396,20739,84870],"class_list":{"0":"post-618562","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ottawa","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-carolina-hurricanes-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-12","11":"tag-ottawa","12":"tag-ottawa-senators-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-9"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618562","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=618562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}