Karel Vejmelka made a career-high 49 saves and the Utah Hockey Membership scored three targets inside a 2:19 span within the third interval for a 4-1 win over the Carolina Hurricanes on Wednesday in Salt Lake Metropolis.
Nick Bjugstad had two targets for Utah, and Michael Kesselring had two assists. Jack McBain and Mikhail Sergachev scored Utah’s different targets, each through the third-period flurry.
Martin Necas’ second-period power-play aim was the one tally for the Hurricanes, regardless of a whopping 50-21 photographs benefit and 6 power-play alternatives.
With the sport tied 1-1 at 5:09 of the ultimate body, Kesselring made a terrific play to take the puck into Carolina’s finish, after which made a canny cross to McBain for the conversion.
Sergachev adopted up on the 7:11 mark, and Bjugstad’s second aim of the sport got here simply 17 seconds later to place the hosts up 4-1.
Taking part in in simply his fifth recreation of the season, Utah backup goalie Vejmelka delivered a profession evening.
Vejmelka and the Utah Hockey Membership’s defenders needed to be spectacular throughout an prolonged penalty kill within the third interval. A combating/game-misconduct penalty to Michael Carcone fashioned the majority of 9 minutes of power-play time for Carolina within the closing body, but the Hurricanes could not add one other aim.
Carolina misplaced for simply the second time in its previous 11 video games (9-2-0).
Hurricanes beginning goalie Pyoty Kochetkov stopped 15 of 18 photographs in 46:45 of ice time, and Spencer Martin stopped 2 of three photographs in a reduction effort. Defenseman Sean Walker by accident collided with Kochetkov on McBain’s aim, and a shaken-up Kochetkov was faraway from the sport after Sergachev’s tally.
Bjugstad opened the scoring at 17:55 of the primary interval. Bjugstad’s targets have been his first two of the season, after the veteran ahead missed the Utah Hockey Membership’s first eight video games on account of an upper-body harm.
Necas has 22 factors (eight targets, 14 assists) over a career-best 11-game factors streak.
–Discipline Stage Media
