{"id":694220,"date":"2026-05-26T05:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T05:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/694220\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T05:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T05:57:08","slug":"andrei-svechnikov-scores-ot-winner-as-carolina-hurricanes-beat-montreal-canadiens-to-take-2-1-lead-in-eastern-conference-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/694220\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrei Svechnikov scores OT winner as Carolina Hurricanes beat Montreal Canadiens to take 2-1 lead in Eastern Conference Final"},"content":{"rendered":"

MONTREAL (AP) \u2014 Andrei Svechnikov<\/a> scored at 14:06 of overtime as the Carolina Hurricanes<\/a> defeated the Montreal Canadiens<\/a> 3-2 on Monday night to take a 2-1 lead in the Eastern Conference Final.<\/p>\n

Shayne Gostisbehere<\/a> and Taylor Hall<\/a> scored in regulation for Carolina. Frederik Andersen<\/a> made 11 saves.<\/p>\n

Mike Matheson<\/a> and Lane Hutson<\/a> scored for Montreal, which got 35 stops from Jakub Dobes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The best-of-seven series returns to the Bell Centre for Game 4 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Andrei Svechnikov<\/a> fired a shot through a crowd after a back-and-forth with Seth Jarivs for the winning tally.<\/p>\n

After picking up a 3-2 extra-time victory at home Saturday that looked a lot more like their relentless style following a discombobulated 6-2 loss in Thursday\u2019s opener, the Hurricanes came out flying and took the lead at 8:24 of the first period when the puck popped into the slot for Gostisbehere to fire in off the left post past a diving Dobes.<\/p>\n

The Canadiens, who topped the Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a> and Buffalo Sabres<\/a> in a pair of seven-game matchups to make the conference final despite a combined 2-4 record at home, tied it at 15:28.<\/p>\n

Carolina, the East\u2019s top seed coming off sweeps of the Ottawa Senators<\/a> and Philadelphia Flyers<\/a>, pushed back less than minute later when Hall shoveled home his own rebound from in tight past Dobes as the winger was falling to the ice at 16:22.<\/p>\n

Montreal, which registered just 12 shots in Game 2, evened things up on a power play at 4:43 of the second period.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

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

The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL (AP) \u2014 Andrei Svechnikov scored at 14:06 of overtime as the Carolina Hurricanes defeated the Montreal Canadiens…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[712,49,48,96396,78846,82],"class_list":["post-694220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-carolina-hurricanes-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-12","tag-montreal-canadiens-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-8","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694220","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=694220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}