Svechnikov put the Hurricanes ahead 3-2 with a third-period power-play goal at 13:56. He took a pass out of the corner from Nikolaj Ehlers, drew Washington goalie Logan Thompson across the crease and lifted a backhand near the top of the crease.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Svechnikov earned an assist on an empty-net goal at 18:33, setting up Mark Jankowski, who extended his scoring streak to five games.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Eric Robinson scored and\u00a0Pyotr Kochetkov made 20 saves for the Hurricanes (6-1-1).<\/p>\n
Hurricanes forward Taylor Hall left the game in the second period with an upper-body injury and did not return.<\/p>\n
Boone Jenner and Justin Holl scored, and Thompson made 31 saves for the Capitals (3-3-0), who have lost two in a row.<\/p>\n
Jenner gave Washington a 1-0 lead at 9:26 of the first period. Sean Walker blocked Ryan Leonard\u2019s shot, but the Capitals forward got his own rebound and passed to Jenner, who beat Kochetkov with a short-side wrist shot.<\/p>\n
The Hurricanes tied it 1-1 at 3:58 of the second period. Thompson fended off two shots by William Carrier, but\u00a0Svechnikov poked the puck in the net from under Thompson\u2019s left pad.<\/p>\n
Holl put the Capitals ahead 2-1 at 6:39 when he scored through a screen from the top of the right face-off circle. It was the veteran defenseman’s Washington debut after he was recalled from Hershey of the American Hockey League on Monday.<\/p>\n
Carolina tied it 2-2 at 18:49 when Eric Robinson\u2019s shot deflected off the stick of Washington\u00a0defenseman Martin Fehervary and into the net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Svechnikov put the Hurricanes ahead 3-2 with a third-period power-play goal at 13:56. He took a pass out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":932169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-932168","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\/932168","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=932168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/932169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}