The Carolina Hurricanes remained undefeated at PNC Arena as a hat trick by Teuvo Teravainen and shutout by Antti Raanta allowed the team to pick up its fifth win of the season.
The Canes were the dominant team from start to finish and proved it not only on the ice but on the scoreboard too.
The game also featured the season debut of Andrei Svechnikov who hit the ice for a game for the first time since March 11.
After the game, Rod Brind'Amour, Teravainen, Raanta and Svechnikov spoke with the media. Here's what they had to say:
Teuvo Teravainen
On resetting at home: "It's nice to be home. There were a lot of road games at the start there, but here it's a special place to play. We feel like we needed to come home and play a couple of games here to get back on track."
On Seth Jarvis' passing: "I feel like it should be the other way. Now I'm the goal scorer, but I'll take it. Nice passes though."
On his scoring pace: "It's nice, but a little bit weird. Not used to it that much, but I guess I just have to keep going. Feel pretty good right now."
On if he likes scoring: "I guess so."
On the media: "This part I don't know, but I felt like Raanta should have been the number one star today."
On Antti Raanta's rebound: "He's been working hard and played awesome today. Maybe that's exactly what he needed and the team needed to get back on the right track."
On Andrei Svechnikov's return: "It was the old Svech. Hitting people, strong. He's gonna be huge for us."
Andrei Svechnikov
On how it felt: "Pretty good. The first couple of shifts, I was kind of nervous, excited and all that stuff, but after a couple of shifts I was fine."
On his penalty: "I guess they love giving me penalties. I thought it was nothing, but he kind of told me that he thought I hit a different guy. But it's okay. It happens sometimes. It was a penalty so I guess it's just sticking with me."
On his nerves: "A couple days ago, I got to know that I was gonna play this game and that day I kind of got butterflies, but this morning I woke up and was very calm. I knew what I was doing and I knew where I was going to be. It was kind of fine, to be honest. It was exciting, but nothing crazy."
On if he planned to be as physical as he was: "Oh yeah. I love it. I missed it. I didn't get to use that for seven months. That's my game. I love it."
On where he feels his game is at: "I didn't play for seven months so I still have to get my confidence back and the feeling of the puck back. All those little details. Get my head clear. On the ice, it's still kind of *eh.* But it's going to be fine. It'll take me a couple of games."
Antti Raanta
On having a bounce-back game: "When it's tough, it's tough and when you don't get that good game under your belt, it gets tough. You start thinking too much, overplaying situations and then you're not playing with your instincts anymore. I think since that Seattle game in Seattle, I just tried to refocus, recharge, do the right things in practice and just mentally start preparing for today. Even though we had a 3-0 win, I didn't think that I was close to what I can be. I think there are still some things I can do better, but you take what you get, move on and keep working."
On how he resets: "Got back home from Colorado and spent the day with the family and didn't think too much about hockey. Then I came back to the practice and just start working again. Mostly, it's just about getting those reps in practice, just working hard, trusting your stuff and then just going to the game and playing. Don't go to the game and think about what's going to happen or you'll never be successful. Just enjoying the atmosphere and having fun is what I was trying to do this week."
On the team getting the first goal: "There's been a couple of games where it's been 3-0, 3-1 and it's tough when you're chasing the game the whole time. Obviously the focus was on making the first save and then the next one and I was able to do that. Then Turbo took over and scored some nice goals. I think the third period we played really nice, shutdown hockey and didn't really give them anything. So that was only me giving up bad rebounds there and giving them chances. But yeah. Overall, I think the third period was really good and that kind of showed. When you're in the lead, you control the game.
On Svechnikov's return: "I've been skating with Svech a couple of times this week and you could see the hunger. I knew that when he got here, he would be running around and getting some hits. All that energy that's been building up. It was just awesome to see him. First game in about eight months, so he's just going to get better. When he gets a couple of goals, that's when we're going to see him back fully on. Now he's more like a grinder a little bit. It's great to have him back."
On goaltending coach Paul Schonfelder: "He's the silent guider. You go into the practices and talk to him about what we want to do, what we should do and just the mental aspect also. You're really close with your goalie coach and hopefully you can share things with what's going on in your life and if something is not working in hockey, you can share those things and you try to figure out the ways out of there. He's been my rock in the locker room and in hockey. It's just nice to have somebody who you can share things with. When you're going through a rough patch, you need somebody to have your back. It's been great to have him, for sure."
Rod Brind'Amour
On Teuvo Teravainen: "He's got a great shot. Over the years, we've wanted him to shoot more and you could see tonight that he had a couple really nice ones. He can score."
On Teravainen having just 1 assist: "You probably would have thought it might be the other way because he's pass-first kind of player. But he's got a great shot so hopefully it continues."
On Raanta's bounce-back game: "He made a lot of saves. I don't know what the shots ended up being, but it's very deceiving because there were some real close ones. He made a lot of really quality saves and allowed us to just kind of cruise tonight."
On Andrei Svechnikov: "He was great. He looked like he hadn't missed a beat. He's the type of player where every time he's on the ice, you notice. Every shift he did something. He made a couple of great passes. He could of have a goal for sure too. Ripped a couple and then set up Bunts there backdoor. Their goalie played great too, but Svech was very good."
On confidence of a player: "It's tricky. You keep playing them and putting them out there. Sometimes the worse thing you can do is take a guy out because now he has less and less time. We never did that with him. He was always on the power play. You want to make sure... My job is to get the best players to play their best and the only way you can really do that is to keep putting him out there. That's showing him the confidence, but it's hard for a player. When he knows he should be at this level but he's here. They care. They know how important they are to the team. He's in a good place and hopefully he keeps playing like that."
On the team coming around: "You look at the start and the wins especially weren't there, but it wasn't as bad as everyone was freaking out about. You look at a lot of metrics the way we look at it and it wasn't all that off. It just that we weren't getting the timely saves like we got tonight. Just a couple little things were definitely off, but overall, the effort was there and tonight I just think it was more that we got the big saves when we needed them. Other than that, I didn't see a ton of difference to our game."
On Seth Jarvis' development: "I think what's happened there is the maturation of a player. He's got confidence. He knows now. He knows on the penalty kill where guys are going to be so he can hang onto pucks a little longer. It's not just playing. Now there's a thought process to everything that he's doing. Just because he's done it a few times. He studies it and just being around it. He also put in the work this summer, but part of it is just getting older, getting stronger. He's always been fearless, and I think that's his biggest trait."
On developing faceoff skills: "It's a craft. There are guys in this league that are making a living out of just that because it's that important. He's got a long way to go still, but the only way to kind of get better at it... because you can practice at it, but it's in the games. Getting the timings with the linesmen. There's just a whole bunch of stuff. You see a lot of good faceoff guys, they get better as they get a little older because the repetition and I think he'll be one of those."
On if he got better with age: "I was always good."
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