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Pyotr Kochetkov<\/a> started for the Hurricanes against the Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday, his first NHL game since Dec. 20 after having surgery for a lower-body injury. Kochetkov was 6-2-0 with a 2.33 goals-against average, .899 save percentage and one shutout in nine games (eight starts) prior to the injury. He had been cleared to skate in April and was with the Hurricanes during their run to the Stanley Cup last season but was the third goalie behind Brandon Bussi and Frederik Andersen. “It’s a long road back, but we all know how important that position is,” coach Rod Brind’Amour said Saturday. “So we need him to be what we think he can be, which is a really good goalie.” … Defenseman Mike Reilly<\/a> will made his season debut after being scratched the first two games of the season. He had nine points (one goal, eight assists) in 42 regular-season games and two assists in two Stanley Cup Playoff games. “We got to get him going,” Brind’Amour said. “We don’t want him to sit too long. … He was really good for us, and you don’t want to let a guy sit out too long. It gets to be tough when you need him to get back in there.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carolina Hurricanes Pyotr Kochetkov started for the Hurricanes against the Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday, his first NHL game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":920236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-920235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920235","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=920235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/920236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}