By BOB SUTTON
RALEIGH — Jackson Blake scored a power-play purpose with 9:17 remaining to offer Carolina the lead, and Jack Roslovic scored twice because the Hurricanes beat the New Jersey Devils 5-2 on Saturday night time.
Dmitry Orlov and Sebastian Aho additionally scored in Carolina’s four-goal third interval. Dustin Tokarski had 21 saves to assist the Hurricanes forge a break up of the home-and-home on consecutive nights.
Paul Cotter and Ondrej Palat scored for the Devils, who snapped a three-game profitable streak. Jake Allen stopped 37 photographs, however has gone greater than a month with out a victory.
Carolina’s Rod Brind’Amour turned the quickest coach to 300 wins in NHL historical past. It was the Hurricanes’ 488th recreation below Brind’Amour, who reached that mark in eight fewer video games that Bruce Boudreau.
New Jersey received 4-2 on Friday night time at house.
TAKEAWAYS
Devils: They have been in vary of notching a season-high four-game profitable streak earlier than the Hurricanes racked up three targets in about 11 minutes. New Jersey allowed a complete of two targets in its three earlier video games.
Hurricanes: They didn’t rating till their thirtieth shot of the sport on Orlov’s blast from the correct circle with 30 seconds left within the second interval. Defenseman Ty Smith made his Carolina debut towards his former workforce with Shayne Gostisbehere out for the primary time this season with an upper-body damage.
KEY MOMENT
New Jersey’s Timo Meier was referred to as for a five-minute main and recreation misconduct after a center-ice hit on Hurricanes scoring chief Martin Necas (14 targets, 30 assists). Carolina took the lead on the following energy play.
KEY STAT
The groups break up 4 conferences this season. The primary three outcomes got here by 4-2 scores.
UP NEXT
Devils play at Anaheim on Tuesday, and Hurricanes go to Columbus.
