The Hurricanes, finally playing with the lead, kept the pressure on, and they also finally got a break. Nate Schmidt had a shot from the left point ring off the left post just 58 seconds after Stankoven’s goal.
Andersen made arguably his biggest save at 2:36 of the third period on a hard wrist shot by defenseman Dmitry Kulikov, who got the puck coming out of the penalty box and chose to shoot on a 2-on-1 with forward Carter Verhaeghe.
“I thought he dazzled,” Staal said. “I remember a couple went by me and I was like ‘Oh no,’ and he made some great saves.”
Mark Jankowski had a would-be goal negated by a successful coach’s challenge for offside at 6:31 of the third period. But the Hurricanes didn’t seem bothered by that. Aho…