Overview
- Carolina won Game 2 in overtime on Taylor Hall’s winner, giving him the first postseason OT game-winner of his NHL career and the Hurricanes a 2-0 series lead.
- Philadelphia jumped ahead early as Jamie Drysdale scored on a power play to end Carolina’s 618:51 run without trailing, and Sean Couturier added another 39 seconds later.
- Special teams drove the pace with 13 combined power plays, and Nikolaj Ehlers cut the deficit with a first-period man-advantage strike for his first playoff goal with Carolina.
- Coach Rod Brind’Amour shuffled his forward lines, and the move paid off when Seth Jarvis tied the game in the third period with help from Jordan Staal and Ehlers.
- Frederik Andersen weathered a heavy overtime barrage, facing his most shots of any single frame and stopping them all until Hall ended it, while Flyers winger Travis Konecny lamented a missed OT breakaway and the series now shifts to Philadelphia for Game 3 on Thursday at 8 p.m. EDT.