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Carolina Beats Ottawa in 2OT, takes 2-0 series lead

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Hurricanes outlast Senators in 2OT, lead series

Carolina outlasts Ottawa 3-2 in 2OT thriller for 2-0 series lead. Linus Ullmark makes 41 saves. Series heads to Ottawa for Game 3.


Hurricanes hold serve with 3-2 2OT win over Senators. Home teams up 2-0 win series 88% of time. Series shifts to Ottawa Thursday...

 
Jordan Martinook scored the double-overtime winner Monday as the Carolina Hurricanes beat the Ottawa Senators to take a 2-0 lead in the playoff series.


The game featured more than 200 total shots, with 82 on goal. The series shifts to Ottawa for Game 3 on April 23 and Game 4 on April 25.



 
Home teams that win the first two games go on to win the series 88% of the time.


Mark Jankowski’s goal in the first overtime was overturned after review ruled the Canes offside. Carolina was awarded a penalty shot, but Martinook was stopped by Linus Ullmark.





 
Had he scored, it would have been the first overtime penalty-shot winner in Stanley Cup Playoffs history.


Neither team went on the power play from the third period through the first overtime, the longest even-strength stretch of any series so far these playoffs.






Recap & Highlights

Tkachuk Takes Early Penalty

After dropping the gloves right at puck drop in Game 1, Ottawa's Brady Tkachuk committed the first penalty of Game 2, giving Carolina an early chance to capitalize.


Stankoven Opens Scoring

Logan Stankoven scored the game’s first goal six minutes into the first period, his second of the playoffs, to put the Canes up 1-0.


Line Stays Hot

Taylor Hall and Jackson Blake picked up the assists on Stankoven’s goal. The trio has now combined on Carolina’s first three goals this postseason, including both in the 2-0 Game 1 win.



  
Andrei Svechnikov took a roughing penalty 8:49 into the first, then went back to the box for interference, giving Ottawa a second chance to tie it.

 
Ottawa failed to convert on both power plays and trailed 1-0 after the first period, getting outshot 14-9.


That gave Carolina goalie Frederik Andersen 80 shutout minutes to open the playoffs through two games, the first goalie to do that since Cam Talbot with Minnesota in 2021.

 
Ottawa’s power-play struggles continued as they failed again, going 0-for-7 in the series to that point. Right after, the Canes quickly doubled their lead.


Sebastian Aho scored his first of the playoffs to make it 2-0 nearly eight minutes into the second.


 

Aho now has 86 career playoff points, tying Valtteri Filppula for fifth-most all-time among Finnish players. He’s three points shy of passing Teemu Selanne.


Ullmark kept Ottawa in it with what could be the best save of the series.




It took some time, but Ullmark’s save paid off as the Sens started to rally.

  
Drake Batherson beat Andersen for his first goal of the playoffs to cut it to 2-1.


It was only Batherson’s second career playoff goal. His other came last year in Game 1 against the Toronto Maple Leafs.




The game went 4-on-4 after both teams were called for two minor roughing penalties, but neither side scored with the extra space.


Ottawa fared better at even strength when Dylan Cozens scored his first goal of the playoffs to tie it 2-2 with three minutes left in the second.


Like Batherson, it was also Cozens’ second career playoff goal.



  
Carolina kept the pressure on late in the second period, but Ullmark stood tall.


He finished the second with 13 saves on 14 Carolina shots.


 

With 13.5 seconds left, the Canes poured on shots in Ottawa’s end, but Ullmark came up with another acrobatic save to force overtime.


He finished the night with 41 saves.




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