In a season where he never should have even sniffed an NHL roster, Pyotr Kochetkov found himself in the middle of an NHL playoff game.
Untimely injuries ravaged the goaltending depth of the Carolina Hurricanes, which forced the hands of management, but Kochetkov, to be fair, had forced his way into the conversation regardless.
The young Russian netminder came to North America after his KHL team, Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod, were eliminated, and immediately went on a run with the Chicago Wolves.
In the AHL, Kochetkov had a 13-1-1 record with a 2.09 GAA and 0.