{"id":663882,"date":"2026-05-25T10:03:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/663882\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T10:03:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:03:17","slug":"special-talent-ehlers-drives-hurricanes-to-game-2-ot-win-in-eastern-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/663882\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Special talent\u2019 Ehlers drives Hurricanes to Game 2 OT win in Eastern Final"},"content":{"rendered":"

So was everyone else at\u00a0Lenovo. Defenseman Jalen Chatfield<\/a> cleared the puck out of the defensive zone to forward Mark Jankowski<\/a>, who passed it to Ehlers at the red line. Ehlers, with the speed that\u2019s been his trademark during his NHL career, took care of it from there.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s so fast, he\u2019s so skilled. Easiest assist in my life on that one, just poke it to him in the neutral zone, let him do the rest,\u201d Jankowski said to laughs. \u201cIt\u2019s awesome to be able to watch someone like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ehlers recently talked of how he\u2019s a lot more comfortable in Carolina now, joking that he no longer needs to use his GPS to find the rink. Finding the back of the net has rarely been a problem for him, however.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s here to help the Hurricanes get that Stanley Cup that\u2019s eluded them since 2005-06, and he\u2019s certainly playing his part in getting it.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery single year you want to win the Stanley Cup, and you want to have a chance at that and when I signed here, I knew what a great team they had,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve been playing against this team the last 10 years and that\u2019s something that excited me.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re in the Eastern Conference Final now so the scoring depth we have is something that we\u2019ve had all year and especially in the playoffs. It\u2019s huge. (Eric Robinson<\/a>) gets that first one and in the second round it was (Logan Stankoven<\/a>\u2019s) line. We all have to get it going and it\u2019s going to be different players at different times, different games. We just all have to keep working and playing the right way. That\u2019s the only way we\u2019ll continue playing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"So was everyone else at\u00a0Lenovo. Defenseman Jalen Chatfield cleared the puck out of the defensive zone to forward…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-663882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}