After a sluggish first interval, the Carolina Hurricanes sharpened up their sport and went on the defeat the Anaheim Ducks, 5-2 on Thursday night time on the Lenovo Center.
It was the third straight win for Carolina whereas the Ducks have now misplaced eight in a row.
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The residence workforce bought off to a little bit of a sluggish begin and fell behind 1-0 in the primary however they turned issues round in the second.
They outshot the Ducks 19-3 in that interval and put three objectives up on the board.
First, Mark Jankowski bought issues began when he took the puck to the online.
Shortly after, Granlund scored from in shut however that will be it for Anaheim.
Two minutes after that rating, Taylor Hall made a excellent feed to an open Logan Stankoven to tie issues up once more. That made three objectives in the final three video games for Stankoven.
Jalen Chatfield blasted in a shot to present the Canes a 3-2 lead going into the second intermission. It was Chatfield’s three hundredth NHL sport.
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The Canes continued to close down the opposition in the third because the Ducks may solely handle one other 4 pictures in that interval.
Carolina goaltender, Fred Andersen did what he wanted to do and stopped the pictures he noticed to earn his first win since early November. The win put an finish to a 9 sport shedding streak for Andersen.
Midway by the third, Jackson Blake made a fairly backhander off an Alexander Nikishin shot to place the house workforce up by two.
Taylor Hall notched an empty-netter to shut out the scoring.
In all, the Canes outshot the Ducks, 35-13.
Carolina dominated the faceoff circle successful 64%.
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The Hurricanes will take Friday off and can put together to tackle the Seattle Kraken on Saturday night time.
Game Summary – (*2*)
Event Summary – https://www.nhl.com/scores/htmlreports/20252026/ES020688.HTM
Interviews – https://canespr.com/2026/01/06/january-6-postgame-notes-stats-video-audio/