Rookie Jackson Blake scored his first NHL aim, and Pyotr Kochetkov made 23 saves in his season debut because the Carolina Hurricanes beat the New Jersey Devils 4-2 on Tuesday night time.
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Blake, 21, recorded two factors (1g, 1a) in 4 preseason video games for the Hurricanes. The 5’11”, 178-pound ahead made his NHL debut with the Hurricanes on April 16 at Columbus after signing a three-year, entry-level contract following the conclusion of his collegiate season. Blake recorded 60 factors (22g, 38a) in 40 NCAA video games with North Dakota in 2023-24 and was a top-three finalist for the Hobey Baker Award, given yearly to the highest participant in school hockey. Chosen by the Hurricanes within the fourth spherical, 109th total, on the 2021 NHL Draft, Blake posted 102 factors (38g, 64a) in 79 profession video games with the Combating Hawks.
Seth Jarvis, Shayne Gostisbehere and Sebastian Aho additionally scored for the Hurricanes, who performed their second recreation of the season after a gap loss to Tampa Bay on Friday.
Jake Hughes and Nico Hischier scored for the Devils, who had a two-game successful streak halted. Jacob Markstrom stopped 30 photographs.
Hurricanes ahead Jesperi Kotkaniemi helped arrange Gostisbehere’s go-ahead aim and earned an help on the sequence for his a hundredth profession level. It got here in his four-hundredth NHL recreation. There was additionally a milestone for Aho, who skated in his 600th recreation and scored into an empty web.
The Devils go to Ottawa on Thursday night time (Oct 17), whereas the Hurricanes start a six-game journey Friday night time (Oct 18) at Pittsburgh.
