Until last week, the Seattle Kraken had one overtime victory in their season-plus in the National Hockey League.

Now they’ve got two in a row.

The Kraken, who have worked extra time in three straight games, hope to get things taken care of in regulation Wednesday night when they wrap up a six-game homestand against the San Jose Sharks.

“We obviously haven’t had a lot of success in overtime (in the past),” Kraken forward Jordan Eberle said after scoring the winner Saturday against the Los Angeles Kings. “And then, the last two we put a lot of work and emphasis into it. When you go into those games, those are huge points that you give up.

“You never know when you may need that extra point to get in (to the playoffs).”

The overtime streak started Nov. 13 with a 3-2 loss to Winnipeg after the Jets scored the tying goal on the power play and with the goalie pulled for an extra attacker with 5.2 seconds left in regulation.

After that loss, Kraken coach Dave Hakstol devoted time in each of the next two practices to three-on-three play.

“It’s a possession game,” Hakstol said. “So there are a lot of pieces built into it. But three-on-three is something that grows with chemistry. No question about it. You can have some basic rules, some basic systematic looks you want to put into place.

“But that grows with chemistry as well. And we need to continue growing there.”

Seattle responded by beating the New York Rangers last Thursday and the Kings on Saturday, both by 3-2 margins, to improve to 3-1-1 on the homestand.

Jared McCann and Daniel Sprong also scored against L.A., rookie Matty Beniers added two assists and goaltender Martin Jones stopped 27 shots.

“You don’t need to force it,” McCann said of playing overtime. “Hold on to it. It’s a puck possession time of the game. You’ve got to just hold on to it, make the right play and wait for your chances.”

The Sharks snapped a two-game losing streak with a 5-1 victory Monday against visiting Ottawa.

Five players scored for San Jose, Luke Kunin had three assists and goalie Kaapo Kahkonen made 37 saves. The Sharks had lost their previous six games (0-3-3) at home.

“Just really proud of our guys,” Sharks coach David Quinn said. “That was a great bounce-back win. I thought we got better and better as the game went on.”

It was certainly a bounce-back game for Kahkonen, who allowed nine goals over his previous two starts.

“I think his confidence early on, even about a week and a half ago, was not where it needed to be,” Quinn said. “And he’s built his confidence up. He’s worked hard. He’s done a really good job.”

The Sharks’ Logan Couture scored for the fourth consecutive game on an empty-netter in the final minute to give him 10 goals this season. Defenseman Erik Karlsson had an assist to tie for third in the NHL with 29 points.

“I think we started a little bit sloppy, but we cleaned it up fairly quick,” Karlsson said. “And the last 40 minutes, I think we played like the better team and it was a nice, nice win for us to get at home. It’s been a while.”

–Field Level Media

After failing to make the Stanley Cup playoffs for the first time in team history, the Vegas Golden Knights hit the quarter-pole of the 2022-23 season with a Western Conference-leading 31 points while tying the franchise record for the best start after 20 games.

The Golden Knights now play three games over a four-day stretch in Las Vegas beginning with a contest against the slumping Ottawa Senators on Wednesday night.

Vegas bounced back from a 4-3 overtime loss at Edmonton on Saturday to earn a split of its two-game western Canada trip with a wild 5-4 victory at Vancouver on Monday to improve to 15-4-1, matching its best start for 20 games accomplished in the pandemic-shortened 2020-21 season.

The Golden Knights actually started 16-4-1 in that campaign which ended with a six-game loss to Montreal in the Stanley Cup semifinals.

It looked like Vegas might come up short in matching that start on Monday when it allowed three goals in the span of 4 1/2 minutes early in the third period to fall behind 4-2. But the Golden Knights quickly answered with a pair of goals by William Carrier and Reilly Smith to tie it and, after having a Mark Stone goal waived off because the puck had hit a lens in the camera hole in the glass 14 seconds earlier, scored the game-winner by Alex Pietrangelo with 5:46 remaining.

“A lot of emotions, obviously,” Pietrangelo said after his fourth three-point game of the season. “We score and then it gets taken back. But I’ll tell you what, it’s not easy to win on the road and you’ve got to give credit to our group. We were resilient no matter what happened. I don’t think we waivered after that disallowed goal, got right back at it.”

“We don’t want it to get to that but resiliency is there, so you take the good and the bad, right?” Stone said. “A 2-1 lead going into the third, you want to lock that down and push the score and put the game away but (we) let them off the hook a little bit. But we found a way to get it done.”

Ottawa started a four-game western trip with a 5-1 loss at San Jose on Monday. It was the 10th loss in the last 12 games (2-9-1) for the Senators, who were expected to be one of the league’s top turnaround stories this season.

The contest was tied, 1-1, after the first period but San Jose took control with three second-period goals. Ottawa goalie Cam Talbot, who gave up a couple of soft goals to start the period, was pulled for Anton Forsberg after giving up three goals on just seven shots.

“They’re trying,” Ottawa coach D.J. Smith said of his goalies. “Sometimes it doesn’t go your way, and it didn’t go our way tonight.”

“Parts of this game we played the way, the first period especially, that we wanted to,” forward Claude Giroux told the Ottawa Sun. “And in the second period we got away from that. We wanted to have a good start to the road trip. The second period wasn’t good enough.

“We’re frustrated right now. We want to play the right way and do the right things. We’ve been saying that (but) we’ve got to go out there and actually do it.”

–Field Level Media

The Dallas Stars are seeking a bounce-back win when they host the reeling Chicago Blackhawks on Wednesday.

The Central Division-leading Stars are coming off a 3-2 shootout loss to the visiting Colorado Avalanche on Monday, while the Blackhawks have dropped four straight following a 5-3 setback to the visiting Pittsburgh Penguins on Sunday.

The Stars battled back from one-goal deficits twice against the defending Stanley Cup champions. Jason Robertson’s second goal of the game with 26 seconds left in regulation tied the game 2-2.

In the shootout, Tyler Seguin and Joe Pavelski each missed for Dallas before Mikko Rantanen wristed a shot over Jake Oettinger’s glove for the decisive score after Robertson shot the puck over the net in Dallas’ final attempt.

“It’s always a good point when you’re playing the Stanley Cup champion,” Dallas coach Peter DeBoer said after the Stars’ first shootout of the season.

Robertson’s 14 goals are third-most in the league, entering Tuesday. He’s scored 12 of them during his current 12-game point streak, which is one game short of the all-time Dallas mark set by Dave Gagner in 1993-94.

Roope Hintz has eight goals and 15 assists for 23 points, while Pavelski has nine goals and 12 assists. Jamie Benn has eight goals and 12 assists.

The Blackhawks have dropped six of their past seven games, with just one of the losses coming in overtime.

Chicago trailed the Penguins 3-0 after Rickard Rakell scored at the 4:07 mark of the second period before Jujhar Khaira and Patrick Kane pulled the Blackhawks to within 3-2 entering the final period.

After the Blackhawks tied the game on Philipp Kurashev’s unassisted goal with 4:11 left in the game, Sidney Crosby regained the lead when he scored what turned out to be the game-winning goal just 57 seconds later. Crosby finished with a goal and three assists, with his final helper coming on Jeff Carter’s empty-net goal with 17 seconds left.

“We gave ourselves a chance to get back into it,” Kane said. “We played well. It’s just tough to give up a goal right after (tying the game). Good player makes a good play on their team, and all of a sudden, you’re down again, and you’re fighting for it with a few minutes left. It’s a tough situation.

“We got away (last night) from the work ethic and battling throughout the whole game no matter what happens. And we found that again tonight, so that’s a positive.”

The Blackhawks outshot the Penguins 32-25 as Chicago goalie Arvid Soderblom (2-4-1, 3.19 goals-against average) finished with 20 saves.

Soderblom was elevated into the starting lineup after Alex Stalock (3-2-1, 2.93 GAA) suffered a concussion against the New York Islanders on Nov. 1.

“(Alex) has had good days and bad days,” Chicago coach Luke Richardson said of Stalock, who has yet to return to practice. “I don’t think there’s a timeline because everyone’s a little different.”

The Blackhawks are led by Kane, who has three goals and a team-high 11 assists for a team-leading 14 points, while Max Domi has four goals and eight assists. Jonathan Toews is the only other Blackhawk in double figures in scoring, as he has a team-high eight goals to go along with four assists.

–Field Level Media

Two teams that are in the middle of lengthy losing streaks and battling to stay out of the Metropolitan Division cellar face off on Wednesday when the Philadelphia Flyers travel to Washington to play the Capitals.

Philadelphia has lost seven in a row (0-5-2) while the Capitals are winless in four straight (0-3-1). Only Columbus (15) has fewer points in the Metro than the Flyers (18) and the Capitals (17).

Washington, which has a six-game road trip on the horizon after a Friday home game with Calgary, could get All-Star right wing TJ Oshie and defenseman Dmitry Orlov back from lower-body injuries. They took part in full practices this week but head coach Peter Laviolette wouldn’t put a firm date on their return.

“We’re still trying to push these guys to get them back to where they need to be,” Laviolette said. “So I’d rather stay away from commenting one way or the other until we know for sure.”

Washington will have had four days to regroup since suffering a 4-0 home loss to defending Stanley Cup champion Colorado on Saturday. The Capitals have won just twice (2-6-3) in their last 11 games.

“Yeah, it’s very frustrating,” forward Marcus Johansson said. “I feel like we’re such a good hockey team and it’s kind of gotten into our heads a little bit, and we’ve just got to work through it.

“This team can beat any team in this league and I think we’ve shown that. We’ve played some unbelievable hockey at times, we just have to do it for 60 minutes. … Just have to dig in. That’s the only way out of this.”

Philadelphia hasn’t won since a 5-1 victory over St. Louis on Nov. 8. The rebuilding Flyers have been hit by a number of key injuries, including one to leading scorer Travis Konecny (upper body), who has missed the past two games and is expected to be sidelined another 10 days to two weeks. Konecny has 19 points (seven goals, 12 assists) in just 17 games.

Forward Scott Laughton (upper body) was placed on injured reserve Tuesday and is expected to miss two more weeks. Forwards Wade Allison (hip pointer/oblique), Cam Atkinson (upper body) and James van Riemsdyk (finger surgery) are also out for a couple more weeks while center Sean Couturier had back surgery on Oct. 27 and will miss 3-4 months.

“It’s a monstrous hole for us, but it is what it is,” Flyers coach John Tortorella said of Konecny’s loss. “I think it’s a great situation for some guys to be put in, in some more offensive situations that maybe they haven’t been in because of the ice time that ‘TK’ has gotten.”

Philadelphia comes in off a 5-2 home loss to Calgary on Monday. The Flyers cut it to 3-2 on a goal by Joel Farabee midway through the third period but the Flames sealed the victory with a pair of empty-net goals. Ramus Andersson scored what proved to be the game-winner in the second period with a shot that deflected in off Farabee’s stick.

“The effort is there,” Farabee said. “I think if the effort is not there then we have an issue. Guys are playing hard. We’re blocking shots. We’re doing the right things. Sometimes you’ve got to stick with it. Sometimes this thing can turn the other way and we can go on a heater. Obviously we’ve got a big game at Washington and we’ll focus on that.”

–Field Level Media

The New York Islanders overcame some imperfections to earn a much-needed road win Monday night.

The Edmonton Oilers couldn’t do the same — but they had a reasonable excuse as the latest team to fall victim to the red-hot New Jersey Devils.

The Islanders and Oilers will both be looking to play more complete games Wednesday night, when New York hosts Edmonton in a Thanksgiving Eve clash in Elmont, N.Y.

Both teams were off Tuesday following their games a night earlier. The Islanders overcame a late deficit in the third period to edge the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-2 in overtime. The Oilers fell to the surging Devils, 5-2.

The Islanders’ win ended a two-game losing streak and salvaged a split of a four-game road trip, even as New York gave up the first seven shots of Monday’s game and were outshot 32-24. According to Natural Stat Trick, the Maple Leafs had 12 high-danger chances compared to five for New York.

“At the end of the day, it’s what happens on the scoreboard,” said Islanders center Josh Bailey, who forced overtime by scoring with 2:58 left in the third. “I think we were all a little bit tired. We’ve been on the road for a little while. It’s part of playing in this league and you’ve just got to grind it out some nights.”

Anthony Beauvillier followed with the game-winner 1:56 into overtime for New York, which completed its fifth comeback from a third-period deficit and improved to 3-0 in overtime games this season.

“Probably didn’t really deserve two points tonight,” Beauvillier said. “It’s one of those games where you’ve just got to be patient and you’ve got to bear down on your chances. That’s what we did. Wins are wins. When points come like that, we’ll definitely take it and get out of here.”

The Oilers, who have alternated losses with wins over their last seven games, weren’t able to overcome their mistakes against the Devils, who tied a franchise record by winning their 13th straight game Monday night.

Leon Draisaitl scored a power-play goal with 6:58 left in the first to tie the game for the Oilers, who fell behind for good when goalie Stuart Skinner turned the puck over next to the Edmonton net, leading to what amounted to an empty-netter for Dawson Mercer 5:15 into the second.

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins pulled the Oilers within 3-2 at the 4:52 mark of the third and nearly tied the score a little more than two minutes later, when his point-blank shot sailed just high of the net. Tomas Tatar scored on the next trip down the ice for the Devils.

“There were individual errors in our game tonight and you can’t do that and expect to outscore mistakes,” Oilers head coach Jay Woodcroft said. “We clawed back. There was game and fight in our team and we made it 3-2 at the beginning of the third period with a chance to tie it.

“In the end, self-inflicted, individual mistakes cost us.”

–Field Level Media

The surging Nashville Predators will interrupt a lengthy stretch of home games with a quick trip to Detroit on Wednesday.

Nashville finished a five-game homestand with four victories and an overtime loss, pushing their season record above the .500 mark. Following their visit with the Red Wings, the Predators will play three more home games.

In their latest outing, the Predators pulled out a 4-3 shootout win over Arizona on Monday. Cody Glass scored the clincher during the shootout session.

Nashville scored two regulation goals on the power play, a unit that has struggled most of the season. The Predators’ power play percentage is 17.3 percent, which still ranks in the bottom five in the league.

“Our game is ascending here,” forward Matt Duchene said. “It’s getting better and we’ve had to shake some things up here and there with our line combos, D-combos, power play. We got our big unit back (Monday) and we took care of business, which was great. Could have won it in overtime as well, but I think it’s a step in the right direction. We’ve just got to keep building and can’t get comfortable with what we’re doing. We’ve just got to stay hungry and keep growing.”

All of Nashville’s recent wins have come by a one-goal margin. The Predators scored two goals in the first two minutes of the third period to take a 3-2 lead against the Coyotes, then gave up a short-handed goal which eventually forced overtime.

“I thought there were some good things,” coach John Hynes said. “In the third period where we had an opportunity to really take advantage of it, we didn’t do it. So I think that’s something that will be addressed, but I liked how we came out in the third period.”

Nashville will be facing the Red Wings for the first time this season. Detroit hasn’t played since blowing out Columbus 6-1 on Saturday at the tail end of a four-game road trip.

Defenseman Filip Hronek had the first multi-goal game of his career. Hronek also scored the previous game, a 7-4 win at San Jose. During those two victories, the back line produced six goals.

“It helps spread our offense out,” coach Derek Lalonde said. “I like that offense is coming from our defense also, but we’re just simplifying our offense. It’s more about getting bodies and pucks to the net.”

The forwards did their share as well. Team captain Dylan Larkin piled up five points over the last two games and Dominik Kubalik has scored in three of the last four games.

The Red Wings are 2-0-1 in their last three games. They haven’t made the playoffs the past five seasons but there’s growing optimism that their streak will be broken.

Detroit opens a five-game homestand against the Predators. The Red Wings are 5-2-2 on their home ice.

Lalonde, a first-year coach, preaches caution.

“We’ve got a long way to go,” he said. “We’re there now through sheer will and commitment and it’s a huge credit to our guys. … We’re willing our way to where we are right now, but how sustainable that is, we’ll find out from this group.”

–Field Level Media

The New Jersey Devils are approaching the one-month anniversary of their NHL-best winning streak starting and enjoying every moment of being the rare team to win 13 straight games.

They’ll have even more to enjoy Wednesday if they can get their 14th straight victory when they host the Toronto Maple Leafs in Newark, N.J.

New Jersey is on its second 13-game winning streak in franchise history. Monday’s 5-2 win over the visiting Edmonton Oilers impressively matched the franchise record set Feb. 26 through March 23, 2001, when they were defending the second of their three Stanley Cups and in the midst of a 24-season stretch in which they qualified for the playoffs 21 times.

“I guess we’re up there with the history book,” captain Nico Hischier said after getting three assists Monday. “Nobody is going to take that from us now and it feels good. It proves that we’re a good team, that we can win hockey games, that we don’t have to hide anymore.”

This winning streak, the NHL’s 13th different run of at least 13 games, comes less than two months following a modest offseason after the Devils missed the playoffs. New Jersey has made the postseason just once in the past 10 seasons since getting to the 2012 Stanley Cup Final.

If the Devils can move the streak to 14 games, it will be the seventh time in NHL history since the league expanded beyond the “Original Six” in 1967 and first time since the Columbus Blue Jackets won 16 straight Nov. 29, 2016 through Jan. 3, 2017.

During their impressive run, the Devils are outscoring opponents 56-24. While New Jersey owns six one-goal wins and three overtime victories, it also owns six wins by at least three goals.

On Saturday, the Devils held a two-goal lead after 20 minutes in Ottawa en route to a 5-1 win. Two nights later, they scored first, allowed the tying goal and scored twice in the second before pulling away with two more goals in the third.

Hischier, who has 16 points (seven goals, nine assists) during the streak, set up goals by Jesper Bratt, Dawson Mercer and Tomas Tatar. Jack Hughes has 18 points (six goals, 12 assists) during the streak and collected two assists by setting up Bratt along with Damon Severson.

Toronto’s contribution to New Jersey’s run was taking a 3-2 overtime loss last Thursday when Matt Murray allowed the game-winner to Yegor Shrangovich 57 seconds into overtime.

Toronto is 3-0-2 in its past five and 6-1-3 in its past 10. On Monday, John Tavares and Auston Matthews scored in the second and were 2:58 away from a regulation win until goalie Erik Kallgren misplayed the puck behind the net, resulting in the tying goal. Toronto then took its league-worst fifth overtime setback in a 3-2 loss to the New York Islanders.

“Just a tough bounce,” said Toronto’s Mitch Marner, who extended his points streak to 13 games. “We felt good about our game, created a lot. We were sound defensively, didn’t give up a lot. We’ll fix what we need to fix.”

Perhaps more concerning than a miscue is the injury status of top defenseman Morgan Rielly, who departed in the third after a collision with New York’s Kyle Palmieri. Rielly grabbed his left knee after falling to the ice.

The Leafs placed Rielly on long-term injured reserve (LTIR), leaving them without three defensemen as TJ Brodie and Jake Muzzin are also injured. Toronto recalled defensemen Mac Hollowell and Victor Mete from its AHL affiliate.

–Field Level Media

The Boston Bruins, who have the most victories and the highest point total in the NHL this season, will put their seven-game win streak on the line on Wednesday night in a visit to the Florida Panthers in Sunrise, Fla.

Florida, which finished last season with the best record in the league, is off to a mediocre start at 9-8-2.

Boston, an incredible 17-2-0, is coming off a 5-3 win over the host Tampa Bay Lightning on Monday. In that game, Bruins center Patrice Bergeron became just the fourth Boston player to reach 1,000 career points.

Bruins coach Jim Montgomery raved about Bergeron, comparing his ability as a defensive forward to former Montreal Canadiens star Bob Gainey.

“(Bergeron) is just so dedicated to playing the game the right way and helping the team have success,” Montgomery said.

Montgomery was brought in to replace coach Bruce Cassidy after the Bruins finished fourth in the Atlantic Division last season and got eliminated in the first round of the playoffs.

The core group of Bruins players is unchanged from the 2021-22 season, making this start all the more remarkable.

David Pastrnak leads the Bruins in goals (12) and assists (17). Bergeron is second in goals (nine), and his 18 points are tied for second with defenseman Hampus Lindholm, who is on pace for a career year.

Starting goalie Linus Ullmark (13-1-0) leads the league in wins and goals-against average (1.96). In fact, he is halfway toward tying his career high in victories, set last year.

Ullmark is keeping alive Boston’s recent tradition of stellar goaltending, following Tuukka Rask and Tim Thomas, as the Bruins seek a seventh straight playoff berth.

Meanwhile, the Panthers are still adjusting after making a couple of big offseason decisions, trading away homegrown star Jonathan Huberdeau and bringing in Paul Maurice as coach.

The Panthers also traded valuable defenseman MacKenzie Weegar in that same deal, which brought back power forward Matthew Tkachuk from the Calgary Flames.

So far, it hasn’t clicked. The Panthers will enter Wednesday on a three-game losing streak (0-2-1), allowing 15 regulation goals during that span.

Tkachuck has done his part, leading Florida in assists (17) and points (25). Carter Verhaeghe, who scored a career-high 24 goals last season, leads the Panthers with 11 tallies, putting him on pace for a career year.

But some of Florida’s other big guns have been somewhat subdued so far, including Aleksander Barkov (four goals), Sam Reinhart (five) and Sam Bennett (five).

Last season, Barkov scored 39 goals, Reinhart had 33 and Bennett netted 28 — all career highs.

It’s been frustrating for the Panthers, who earlier this season had to endure 11 games without their top defenseman, Aaron Ekblad, while starting goalie Sergei Bobrovsky has struggled (4-5-1, 3.62 GAA).

The Panthers are coming off a 5-3 loss to the Columbus Blue Jackets on Sunday. In that game, Florida had 50 shots on goal and still lost despite Columbus putting only 23 on net.

“We’ve got to get some people in front of the net to score some hard, ugly goals,” Maurice said. “We’re having a hard time completing plays around the net.”

–Field Level Media

In a rematch from last month, the Pittsburgh Penguins and Calgary Flames will conclude their season series Wednesday night in Pittsburgh.

The Flames beat the Penguins 4-1 on Oct. 25, the second game of a disastrous Western trip for Pittsburgh.

The Penguins lost all four games in that stretch, which also included games at Edmonton, Vancouver and Seattle. They trudged home with questions surrounding them — questions that only increased as their losing streak continued until it reached seven (0-6-1).

Things got a little better over the ensuing week for Pittsburgh, a 2-1-1 showing over seven days. Then they really turned around. Pittsburgh went on another road trip and this time is coming home with a three-game winning streak after games at Minnesota, Winnipeg and Chicago.

“I think it’s huge,” said Penguins winger Evgeni Malkin, who will be feted before Wednesday’s game for playing in his 1,000th game Sunday in a 5-3 win at Chicago. “We (won) all three games. I hope our confidence is back.

“It was not a perfect game (Sunday), but two points is two points. … Just play right, and we’ll have a chance to win every game.”

Malkin had a goal in that win at Chicago, but Pittsburgh blew a three-goal lead before getting late goals from Sidney Crosby and an empty-netter from Jeff Carter.

“It’s something to build off of,” Crosby said of the trip. “We were more happy with our first couple games on the trip … but we found a way. And you’ve got to do that sometimes.”

Crosby had 10 points during the three-game trip and was named the NHL’s No. 1 star of the week, the second time this season he has won that honor.

Penguins coach Mike Sullivan and his staff came home with something a little extra, too — as per a promise if the team won all three games, they will grow mustaches for at least the next several weeks.

The Penguins have played just six of their 19 games at home, but starting Wednesday they’ll play eight of their next 10 at home.

Calgary, meanwhile, is 2-1 on a season-long six-game trip through the Eastern Conference following a 5-2 win Monday at Philadelphia that the Flames put away with two empty-netters.

“It gives us confidence to win a tight game like that,” said forward Dillon Dube, who had a goal. “It was a hard-checking game, so to lock it down there was important for us.”

Forward Blake Coleman had a goal and two assists Saturday playing in his 400th game. It was his first three-point game of the season and gave him four points (two goals, two assists) in two games following a stretch with five points, just one of them a goal, in his first 16 games.

“Sometimes you’ve just got to break that seal,” Coleman said. “I’ve been like that my whole career, where they seem to come in bunches for whatever reason.”

Calgary could be without right winger Brett Richie, who did not play against Philadelphia because of what coach Darryl Sutter said was two minor injuries, and defenseman Michael Stone, who has missed the past eight games because of a lower-body injury but joined the team in Philadelphia.

–Field Level Media

The Carolina Hurricanes and Arizona Coyotes needed extra time Monday night and failed to get the desired outcome, but the clubs will do it again against each other in their first matchup Wednesday night in Raleigh, N.C.

The Hurricanes, who reside in second place in the Metropolitan Division behind the red-hot New Jersey Devils, host Winnipeg by netting three goals inside the last five minutes of regulation to erase the Jets’ 3-0 lead.

Jaccob Slavin and Andrei Svechnikov got the visitors within one before Martin Necas’ point shot went in with 39 seconds remaining after the Hurricanes pulled goalie Pyotr Kochetkov for the extra offensive attacker.

However, Carolina lost when defenseman Josh Morrissey received a perfect stretch pass from Pierre-Luc Dubois and beat Kochetkov for the game-winning marker.

Carolina coach Rod Brind’Amour was pleased with the fight of his club near the end of regulation as it salvaged a point.

“It was a crazy game, No. 1,” Brind’Amour said. “We were out of that game in the third and then (we) dug in. I give the guys credit for not giving up. We lost a specialty point at the end, but the fact that we were able to come back says a lot about our group. I’m proud of that.

“You don’t want to get down three, but it was good that we didn’t give up.”

Top goalie Frederik Andersen (lower body) missed his seventh consecutive game. In four starts since being called up from AHL affiliate Chicago on Nov. 8, Kochetkov is 2-0-2 with a 2.00 goals-against average and a .914 save percentage. He shut out the Chicago Blackhawks on 27 saves last Monday in his second start.

In Nashville on Monday night, the Coyotes took the Predators all the way to the shootout before losing 4-3 in seven rounds of the one-on-one skills session.

Nick Bjugstad, who tied the game on a short-handed goal with 6:44 remaining, netted along with Clayton Keller and Nick Ritchie. However, after Nashville’s Cody Glass beat goalie Connor Ingram in the top of the seventh round, defenseman Shayne Gostisbehere was denied by Predators netminder Juuse Saros.

Nashville controlled play throughout the game, holding a 45-27 edge in shots and going 2-for-7 on the power play.

“I think we proved we can be hard to play against when we play to our identity and we’re all on the same page,” said Bjugstad, who has three goals. “That’s important. I think we’ve got a good group here. We continue to make strides each and every day. It’s more fun when you’re in games and most importantly, winning them.”

Clayton Keller’s six-game point streak and 11 consecutive in road games came to an end in Nashville. He has 18 points (seven goals, 11 assists) in 17 games thus far.

While defenseman Josh Brown (upper body, day-to-day) left the game in the second period, fellow blueliner Jakob Chychrun returned to the lineup in his season debut after last playing on March 12.

Forward Nick Schmaltz — sidelined 15 games with an upper-body injury — played for the first time since the season-opening match on Oct. 13.

The two clubs will meet for the final time on March 3 in Tempe, Ariz., on the campus of Arizona State University.

–Field Level Media