{"id":903229,"date":"2026-11-02T13:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T13:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/903229\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T13:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T13:10:11","slug":"perfect-10-hurricanes-pyotr-kochetkov-earns-nhl-honor-amid-historic-start-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/903229\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfect 10: Hurricanes&#8217; Pyotr Kochetkov earns NHL honor amid historic start :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carolina Hurricanes goaltender Pyotr Kochetkov has been unbeatable to begin the season, and the NHL is recognizing his stellar start.<\/p>\n<p>Kochetkov was named the league&#8217;s Third Star for October on Sunday, the same day he became just the third goalie in NHL history to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/f90e3-kochetkov-makes-26-saves-walker-scores-twice-as-hurricanes-beat-jets-7-0\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">start a season 10-0 with a 7-0 shutout of the Winnipeg Jets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old went 9-0-0 in October, establishing the longest season-opening winning streak in franchise history. He also became the third goaltender in Hurricanes franchise history to record at least nine wins in a single calendar month.<\/p>\n<p>Through Sunday, Kochetkov has posted a 1.49 goals-against average, a .929 save percentage and two shutouts.<\/p>\n<p>His success comes after an injury-plagued 2025-26 season that included hip surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Edmonton Oilers forward Connor McDavid earned First Star honors for October, while Minnesota Wild forward Kirill Kaprizov was named Second Star.<\/p>\n<p>Kochetkov previously earned NHL Rookie of the Month honors in December 2022 and February 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carolina Hurricanes goaltender Pyotr Kochetkov has been unbeatable to begin the season, and the NHL is recognizing his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":903230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[4821,385,254262,99],"class_list":["post-903229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-carolina-hurricanes","tag-nhl","tag-pyotr-kochetkov","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903229","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=903229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}