Jackson Blake also scored for the Hurricanes, who are the No. 1 seed from the Metropolitan Division and Eastern Conference. Frederik Anderson made 21 saves.<\/p>\n
Drake Batherson scored for the Senators, who are the second wild card from the Eastern Conference. Linus Ullmark made 25 saves.<\/p>\n
Jake Sanderson, Ottawa\u2019s top defenseman, left the game in the second period. He was hit in the head by Hurricanes forward Taylor Hall at 4:24 of the second period. Hall was assessed a minor penalty for an illegal check on the play. Sanderson played two shifts after the hit by Hall. He also appeared to hurt his hand blocking a shot before heading down the tunnel.<\/p>\n
Carolina will go for the sweep of the best-of-7 series in Game 4 here on Saturday (3 p.m. ET; TVAS, SN, TBS, truTV, FDSNSO, HBO MAX).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Stankoven became the first player in franchise history to score the opening goal in three straight Stanley Cup Playoff games at 5:13 of the first period for the 1-0 lead. Hall picked up his own rebound off Ullmark, skated around the net and found Stankoven in the left face-off circle, where the forward one-timed it bar down over the blocker of Ullmark.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Batherson tied the game 1-1 at 16:06 of the second period. Nick Cousins found Batherson down low alone, who went forehand-backhand over the pads of Anderson.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Just 1:23 later, Blake gave the Hurricanes the lead, 2-1, at 17:29. K\u2019Andre Miller sent a cross-ice feed to Blake, who sent a wrist shot past a sprawling Ullmark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jackson Blake also scored for the Hurricanes, who are the No. 1 seed from the Metropolitan Division and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-624976","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\/624976","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=624976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}