WINNIPEG ā Rick Bowness wasnāt going to dump on the Winnipeg Jets after they overcame a late surge by the Carolina Hurricanes and skated off with a 4-3 overtime victory on Monday.
Defenceman Josh Morrissey scored once in regulation and added the winner on a breakaway 2:10 into overtime.
The Jets were ahead 3-0 when the Hurricanes scored three goals in the final 4:48 of the third period after pulling goalie Pyotr Kochetkov for the extra attacker with about 5:30 remaining.
āUp to that point, they (Carolina) got nothing,ā Bowness said. āWeāll focus on the really good 55 minutes we played, weāll figure out what we couldāve done better in the last couple. Give our guys credit, perseverance, you stay in the fight.ā
Pierre-Luc Dubois had a goal and two assists and Michael Eyssimont, with his first NHL goal, also scored for the Jets (11-5-1), who are 7-2-0 at Canada Life Centre this season. Blake Wheeler collected a pair of assists.
āBefore we hopped on to start overtime, Mikey Eyssimont and Dylan Samberg were saying, āLet's go boys, let's get this one.āā Morrissey said. āTwo young guys with not that many games experience, so that kind of shows the calm on our bench.
āObviously we don't want to be in that situation, but from older players, coaches, to guys with a handful of games, we never wavered.ā
David Rittich made 24 saves in his fourth start for Winnipeg. Heās now won his last three starts.
Jaccob Slavin, Andrei Svechnikov and Martin Necas scored for the Hurricanes (10-5-4), who are on a four-game point streak (1-0-3) and lost for the third straight game in overtime. Sebastian Aho recorded three assists.
āItās a crazy game, No. 1. You just never know,ā Carolina head coach Rod BrindāAmour said. āBut I loved how, we were out of that game in the third and then they just kind of dug in and just said, āLetās go.ā I give the guys credit for not giving up.ā
BrindāAmour said they āhad nothing to loseā in pulling Kochetkov earlier than normal.
āIn this game, it didnāt matter,ā he said. āWe talked about it at the eight-minute timeout. Iām like, āWhy donāt we just try something crazy because this game is kind of flat for us.ā But we decided to wait a little longer.ā
Kochetkov made his first consecutive start in net for Carolina and stopped 19 of the 23 shots he faced.
Necas liked their coachās decision to go for it.
āIf you look at it with five minutes left in the period and youāre losing 3-0 and you still get a point from the game, itās pretty good for us,ā Necas said. āBut we could have done better.ā
Dubois opened the scoring with 1:26 remaining in the first period after he was sprung by a long pass from Wheeler. Dubois went in alone on Kochetkov and beat him with a low shot.
Eyssimont made it 2-0 at 6:44 of the second after the Colorado native capitalized on teammate David Gustafssonās breakaway. Gustafssonās shot bounced off Kochetkov and Eyssimont got the rebound and notched his notable goal in his fourth NHL career game.
Morrissey made it 3-0 at 3:56 of the third.
The Hurricanesā trio of goals were scored in a span of 4:09.
Slavin scored with the extra attacker at 15:12, Svechnikov added his tipped-in goal at 16:52 and Necas notched his at 19:21.
NOTES
Winnipeg forward Cole Perfetti picked up an assist. Heading into the game, he was tied for sixth in NHL rookie scoring with eight points in 16 games. He now has nine in 17 games (three goals, six assists). ā¦ Winnipeg defenceman Ville Heinola made his season debut ā¦ Carolina forward Paul Statsny got big cheers from the crowd when he was shown in the visitorsā bench. Statsny played 146 regular-season games for the Jets before signing with the Hurricanes in the off-season.
UP NEXT
Jets: Embark on a three-game road trip, starting Wednesday against the Minnesota Wild.Ā
Hurricanes: Host the Arizona Coyotes on Wednesday.Ā
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 21, 2022.
Judy Owen, The Canadian Press
