Recap: Martinook Records Hat Trick As Canes Beat Blues

ST. LOUIS, MO. -Carolina Hurricanes forward Jordan Martinook etched the team's fourth hat trick of the season Thursday night, propelling them by the St. Louis Blues, 6-4.

The Story

The evening's first period belonged to Blues netminder Jordan Binnington, who allowed his team to take an early lead after making several quality stops. Per
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, the Canes had five high-danger chances in the first period, two belonging to Jordan Staal, but the Stanley Cup-winning netminder made a pair of five-star saves to keep the visitors off the board.
St. Louis would capitalize on the only power play opportunity of the opening period, giving them a 1-0 advantage before a chaotic second period.
Noel Acciari extended the Blues' lead to 2-0 just 2:31 into the second period and as Binnington continued to string together saves for his club, it felt like Carolina would have their work cut out for them if they wanted to mount a come-from-behind effort.
Instead, within a swift swing of 64 seconds, the Canes found themselves on top 3-2.
Like St. Louis, Rod Brind'Amour's club would make good on their first and only power play of the night, as Brent Burns started the trio of goals for Carolina. With Andrei Svechnikov screening in front, #8 walked across the blue line and fired one through traffic to finally beat Binnington.
Then, just 21 seconds later, Jordan Martinook located an initially blocked Brady Skjei shot to even the contest.
Tying the game at 2-2, the wave of momentum was not complete yet though for Carolina, as Seth Jarvis then sniped one over the shoulder of St. Louis' netminder to give his team their first lead of the night.

The sudden change was enough to put the Canes in the driver's seat, but not enough to take the Blues out of the game completely. With just 4:05 remaining in the second period St. Louis was able to even the score at 3-3 by way of their second power play goal of the night.
Torey Krug's shot would wind up being one of the last that Antti Raanta would see in net, as Pyotr Kochetkov would then come out to start the third for his team.
Both Kochetkov and Binnington would keep the game tied through the majority of the final period and as each minute passed it looked increasingly likely that the Canes were headed for their sixth overtime in eight games.
Instead, with just 4:35 to go in regulation, Martinook was able to get his second of the night to put Carolina back ahead. After Jordan Staal and Jaccob Slavin made a fantastic play at neutral ice to spin play the other way, #48 fired a shot on the rush for his sixth goal of the season.

Staal was then rewarded with an empty net goal of his own to make it 5-3, but St. Louis would not roll over just yet. Ryan O'Reilly struck with the extra attacker on and once again bring his team back within one.
However, that goal prompted Craig Berube's team to try with the extra attacker on once more and what it led to was Martinook's first hat trick since November of 2018.
The tenth and final goal of the night would lead the two teams to the final horn, giving Carolina their third consecutive victory.

They Said It

Jordan Martinookproviding thoughts in the moments after the final horn...
"Before the game Jordo said to me, "You're a shooter, you're a shooter." On the first one I just turned and shot and he was out of position. The second one I was just trying to shoot quick, there wasn't much and I was just trying to get five-hole. Then the third I saw Burnzie was going to rim it and I just took off. It's cool. I didn't think I'd ever get another one and I'm pretty excited."
Rod Brind'Amouron Martinook's night...
"What can you say? He was great. He knew on [St. Louis'] first goal that it was his guy [to cover] and he turned the page. He had a tough shift and the next thing you know he was the best player in the game."
Jordan Staalgiving his assessment of the win...
"I thought in terms of our five-on-five play, this was one of our better games. We took a couple penalties and got into a game there but we just stuck with our game and stayed with what we do best. We ended up getting rewarded for it."

Bonus Notes

• Martinook joins Andrei Svechnikov (2) and Sebastian Aho as the third Hurricanes skater to score a hat trick in 2022-23, and Carolina's four team hat tricks lead the league this season.
• Carolina's four hat tricks are the most in franchise history through the first 24 games of any season (2006-07: 3), and the Hurricanes have now scored more hat tricks in 2022-23 than in the last three seasons combined (2019-22: 3).
• The Hurricanes have become just the fifth team since 1996-97 to score four hat tricks through their first 24 games of any campaign, joining LAK (2005-06), PHX (2010-11), WPG (2018-19) and NSH (2018-19).
• Teuvo Teravainen (upper-body injury) did not play, but pre-game Rod Brind'Amour said "hopefully real soon" he will be back in the lineup.
• Kochetkov stopped 10 of 11 in the third period after entering in relief. Raanta had allowed three on 15 shots.
• Carolina improves to 13-6-5 on the season.

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What's Next?

The team will travel to Los Angeles immediately post-game. They have a scheduled practice on Friday before taking on the Kings Saturday at 10:30 p.m. EST.
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