Recap: Canes Start Trip With Win In Vegas

LAS VEGAS, NV - The Carolina Hurricanes opened their six-game road trip with a victory Tuesday night in Sin City, taking down the Vegas Golden Knights, 4-2.

The Rundown
After a choppy first three minutes of action that were filled with whistles the two sides then got down to business, providing the up tempo pace that was expected going in.
Vegas came within inches of opening the scoring early, as forward Evgenii Dadanov tucked a wrarpound through Canes netminder Antti Raanta, but the blocker-side post came to his aid, keeping out the first dangerous look of the night for either side.
It was then when the push began for the road side, first with a Tony DeAngelo power play goal. Vincent Trocheck allowed the play to become possible with a delay at the point, then in his return to the lineup, Martin Necas set up the first-year Cane to make it 1-0.

DeAngelo's goal was not his only contribution of the 15-shot first period effort, as he'd then draw a penalty to send Carolina on a late frame man advantage, their first of the night.
Courtesy of Sebastian Aho that power play moved to 1/1 with just 57 seconds remaining in the opening frame. The unit of Trocheck, DeAngelo and Andrei Svechnikov zipped the puck around the horn setting up a Teuvo Teravainen shot, once the curated a slam dunk rebound for the team's Finnish center.

All appeared to be cruising in the Canes favor at the start of the second period, except that came to a crashing halt during a stint of just 79 seconds. An individual effort by Golden Knights forward Brett Howden got the home side on the board and then quickly following Shea Theodore jammed home a third effort to knot the contest only 4:12 into the middle frame.
Scoring reset and leaving the contest to either side, then was when Antti Raanta stepped up to make several timely saves for his club. Admitting that he had rust in his first start of the year, a 6-3 win over the Chicago Blackhawks on October 29, the netminder appeared to have none of those effects in this contest, stuffing several high danger chances by Vegas to prevent his team from falling behind.
The contest would move to the third period at that same 2-2 score and as much as logic would suggest that the two Golden Knights goals took the wind out of the Canes sails, the eventual game-winning goal put it right back under them.
Robbed of goals in the team's last two games, Seth Jarvis made no mistake tonight, putting back an Ethan Bear rebound to make it 3-2 Carolina. It was the second of what would become three rebound goals for the Hurricanes on the evening, exhibiting a knack for capitalizing on second chances.

As the third period went on, Vincent Trocheck would claim a goal of his own, putting back the rebound of a Teuvo Tervainen shot to make it 4-2. It was the second Canes tally of the evening that came on the second effort following a Teravainen blast.
The tally completed an offensive output that was at one point on pace for 51 shots, ultimately giving the team the win to advance to 12-2-0.
They Said It:
Rod Brind'Amour on the game as a whole:
"Great game for us. That's how it probably should look especially given that they're missing a lot of players. I just thought we stuck to our game the whole way. Obviously we had the lead and we gave it up and that's going to happen. They had a couple of chances and they capitalized. I just felt like we kept playing and when we needed, Raanta made some saves for us. I just liked the way we went about our business. It was good."
Antti Raanta on his second start in comparison to his first:
"I felt like today was more of what I want to do. I was more in control. Against this team it is always a tough battle and there is always a lot of pucks coming at you. In the second period was when I felt like I was really in the zone and started to get into the flow of the game. I thought my start tonight was much better than my first."
Vincent Trocheck on his performance tonight, which included five hits in the first period and two points in total:
"My legs felt awful in the first, I was just trying to hit people to stay in front of them. In the second I started to feel better. As a team, we kept it simple, except in the second period but we got back to our game in the third. That's the recipe for us. We stuck with it and it paid off."
Bonus Notes:
What's Next?:
The Canes will once again practice in Vegas Wednesday and then fly to Anaheim ahead of Thursday's game.