Brandon Bussi made 16 saves to choose up the win in his NHL debut and 5 totally different Carolina gamers scored targets because the Hurricanes kicked off a season-long six-game highway journey with a 5-1 victory over the San Jose Sharks on Tuesday evening.
Sean Walker, William Service, Eric Robinson, Shayne Gostisbehere and Jackson Blake scored targets and Logan Stankoven had two assists for Carolina, which prolonged its win streak towards the Sharks to eight video games courting again to a 2-1 extra time loss on Nov. 22, 2021.
Bussi, a 27-year-old Western Michigan product who made 111 begins for the AHL Windfall Bruins, was claimed on waivers from Florida on Oct. 5 and moved right into a backup function behind Frederik Andersen after Pyotr Kochetkov suffered a lower-body damage in apply.
William Eklund scored for San Jose, which remained winless (0-1-2) in three video games. Alex Nedeljkovic completed with 38 saves.
Following a scoreless opening interval, Carolina took a 1-0 lead on a delayed penalty on the 1:24 mark of the second interval on Walker’s one-timer from contained in the blue line that went by way of site visitors and previous Nedeljkovic’s glove aspect.
San Jose tied it just a little over three minutes afterward Eklund’s first purpose, a wrist shot from the sting of the left circle that went by way of Bussi’s pads.
The Hurricanes regained the lead on the 14:14 mark when Service, driving the web, poked in a rebound within the crease of a Alexander Nikishin shot.
Carolina prolonged the result in 3-1 close to the top of the interval when Robinson, chopping to the web, put a backhand shot in previous Nedeljkovic’s glove aspect for his second purpose. The rating got here proper after Bussi stopped Adam Gaudette’s point-blank wrist shot.
Gostisbehere made it 4-1 early within the third interval when he accomplished a tic-tac-toe sequence with Stankoven and Taylor Corridor with a wrist shot blocker aspect.
Blake prolonged the result in 5-1 halfway by way of the third interval with Carolina’s fourth consecutive purpose, blasting a slap shot from above the left circle that caromed in off the left submit previous Nedeljkovic’s blocker aspect.
–Area Stage Media
