Jake Guentzel scored in the shootout and the Carolina Hurricanes rallied from two goals down late to beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 5-4 on Saturday night.
Carolina Hurricanes players celebrate following the team's win over the New York Islanders in Game 4 of an NHL hockey second-round playoff series in Raleigh, N.C., Friday, May 3, 2019. TORONTO —
The teams traded chances in the 3-on-3 extra period, including the Maple Leafs power play, before Guentzel won it with a shot through Samsonov’s pads in the third round of the shootout for the only goal of the tiebreaker.John Tavares had a goal and an assist, and William Nylander, Nick Robertson and David Kampf also scored for Toronto. Morgan Rielly had two assists and Ilya Samsonov made 36 saves.
With the Hurricanes trailing 4-2 late in the third period and Kochetkov pulled for an extra skater, Aho scored a power-play goal with 1:32 left. Aho then tied with his 27th goal of the season with 5.8 seconds remaining and the team playing 6-on-5 to force OT. Nylander made it 2-0 at 6:27 as he roofed his 36th on another break before Robertson — in the lineup for the first time since Feb. 29 — took a pass from Tavares in tight and buried his ninth upstairs for a three-goal lead.
After a scoreless second in which the Hurricanes outshot the Maple Leafs 16-14, Kampf stretched Toronto's lead to 4-2 on another breakaway when he scored his sixth through Kochetkov’s five-hole at 2:55.
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