RALEIGH — After a heartbreaking loss to the Boston Bruins on Tuesday, the Carolina Hurricanes desperately needed a big bounce back effort against a surging San Jose Sharks team on home ice.
In what might have been the hardest-fought game of the season, the Hurricanes pulled through and came up with a massive win on Thursday night, topping the Sharks 3-2 in a shootout.
Warren Foegele was the catalyst for the game’s first goal, just 50 seconds into the first period. Jaccob Slavin’s dump-in was retrieved by the Sharks below the goal line, but Foegele hunted down an unsuspecting Brent Burns, picked his pocket, and found a wide-open Andrei Svechnikov streaking through the slot to make it a 1-0 game.