The Carolina Hurricanes battled back from two deficits to snap their two-game skid as they defeated the Minnesota Wild 3-2 Tuesday night.
After a strong start to the game, the Hurricanes saw themselves trailing twice in the first period, but they locked things down in the final 10 minutes to take the win.
Jordan Staal, Andrei Svechnikov and Stefan Noesen each scored while Pyotr Kochetkov stopped 28 of 30.
Here are my three takeaways from the win:
Special Teams
While the Canes technically didn't score on the power play, the go-ahead goal was for all intents and purposes, a power play goal, so I'm going to make both special teams as a rousing success.
The penalty kill went a perfect 3-for-3 to improve to 59-for-67 since the start of the new year.
Heading into last night's game, Minnesota had scored nine power play goals on 24 attempts in its past five games, so Carolina did tremendous work in keeping them off the board.
The power play also bore fruit with Noesen getting a fortunate bounce off of his visor.
It was also once again the Hurricanes' second unit coming through.
The power play has been one of Carolina's keys to success this season, but the opportunities have really started to dry up.
Since the All-Star break, the Canes have drawn the least amount of calls per game in the league and have not had more power play opportunities than any team they've faced in that span despite being a puck possession dominant team.
A strange occurrence for sure.
Goaltending
Remember when everyone was yelling about how Carolina needed to go out and get a goaltender because it was actively losing them games?
What a time that was.
Now, the Hurricanes have gotten some of the league's best goaltending over the past few months with both Pyotr Kochetkov and Spencer Martin putting up some tremendous results.
Last night, it was once again Kochetkov holding down the fort.
A big part of that PK success was due to PK and he did a tremendous job keeping his team in the game.
Since the start of the new year, Kochetkov has a 0.931 save percentage, which is one of the best in the league.
He's playing himself well into the Calder conversation.
Milestones
With an assist on Staal's goal, Jaccob Slavin tied Justin Faulk for the most points by a defenseman in franchise history.
The Canes' number one blueliner has been a steady presence and dependable piece of the team's core for years and it's cool to see him getting records despite not being known for his offense.
Teuvo Teravainen also reached a milestone with an assist on the game-winning goal, marking his 400th career point as a Hurricane and making him just the fifth player in team history to reach that marker.
Lastly, Andrei Svechnikov scored a goal to move himself one point shy of 300 career points.