Hurricanes edge Flyers in 4-3 win

Chip Alexander, The News & Observer on Oct 11, 2025

Published in Hockey

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RALEIGH, N.C. — Carolina Hurricanes coach Rod Brind’Amour found little wrong with his team’s play in the season-opener against New Jersey, Big things, small things … the Canes did them all in winning Thursday.

But the Canes’ second game Saturday, against the Philadelphia Flyers? During his in-game interview late in the second period, a frowning Brind’Amour bluntly said he was not “enthused’ by his team’s sloppy play and that some players were “going through the motions.”

The Hurricanes held a lead most of the third period at the Lenovo Center but couldn’t hold it. The game went to overtime before the Hurricanes won, 4-3, on a Seth Jarvis goal with 16.7 seconds left in the OT.

The Flyers appeared to have won it with 54 seconds left in overtime on a Bobby Brink goal. But after review it was waved off when Travis Sanheim was called for goaltender interference on Frederik Andersen. Brink had a tap-in with Andersen out of net, that ultimately did not count.

The Canes got goals from Logan Stankoven, Taylor Hall and Jordan Staal during regulation. But the Flyers forged a 3-3 tie on a Sanheim goal with four minutes left in regulation when the defenseman beat goalie Frederik Andersen on an open shot from the high slot.

First period reversal

Brind’Amour couldn’t have asked for more out of his team in the first period. Other than to score, that is. And keep the Flyers from scoring.

The Canes outshot the Flyers 16-6, outchanced them 36-11 and had three power plays. The Flyers, who did a lot of chasing the first 20 minutes, did not have a shot on goal in the first 11 minutes of the game in being outshot 10-1 as Flyers goalie Samuel Ersson stayed under pressure.

The score at the end of the first: Flyers, 1-0.

Philadelphia had one power play and needed nine seconds to score on an Owen Tippett goal with 22 seconds remaining in the period.

Canes rally in the second

The Flyers then had the better of the play in stretches of the second period — that’s when Brind’Amour did his TV gig — only to trail 3-2 after 40 minutes.

Stankoven, in his second game at center, picked up his first goal of the season off a rebound, after a shot by Jackson Blake off a snazzy toe drag with the puck.

The Flyers quickly responded and took the lead again on a Brink top-shelf shot off the rush, but the Canes tied it on Hall’s goal, then took the lead on Staal’s first of the season.

Hall’s second of the season — the veteran winger scored Thursday in the 6-3 win over the Devils — came after an Eric Robinson theft to spring the rush. Staal’s came after a pass to Jordan Martinook behind the net, Martinook then backhanding a pass through the crease back to Staal.

At one point in the second period, the Flyers hemmed the Canes in the Carolina zone, beating the Canes to pucks and forcing Andersen into some tough saves. Canes defenseman K’Andre Miller did find a way to stop the clock and allow a change – lift the puck high and off the huge scoreboard.

Another puck went high and off the board in a third period mostly void of real highlights other than a few more nice saves by Andersen.

With the N.C. State Fair soon to begin, the Canes will be gone for the next six games. Their next home game is Oct. 28 against the Vegas Golden Knights.

While goalie Pyotr Kochetkov will be out for at least another week with a lower-body injury, Brind’Amour said Saturday he hoped to have him join the team on the trip.

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