John Gibson’s 50-save effort carries Geese to season sweep of Hurricanes

Jakob Silfverberg and Troy Terry scored within the third interval, and John Gibson stopped 50 pictures because the Geese defeated Carolina 3-2 on Saturday night time to finish the Hurricanes’ five-game profitable streak.

John Klingberg additionally scored and Trevor Zegras and Ryan Strome every had two assists for the Geese, who’ve gained two in a row on a six-game winless streak.

Jesperi Kotkaniemi and Jesper Quick scored for the Hurricanes, who misplaced for the second time of their final 14 video games. Frederik Andersen made 12 saves in what was a bitter finish to a five-game homestand.

Gibson had 13 saves within the first interval, 22 within the second, and 15 within the third to enhance to 12-23-6 on the season. He turns into the primary goaltender since Gump Worsley through the 1955-56 season to report three 50-save appearances in a single month. Gibson’s 1,393 saves are essentially the most of any NHL goaltender in his first 41 video games of a season since Jacques Plante stopped 1,442 pictures for the New York Rangers in 41 video games in 1963–64.

One in all Gibson’s notable saves was stopping Brent Burns’ deflection on Sebastian Aho’s move in transition to maintain the sport scoreless within the second interval.

That got here shortly earlier than Klingberg’s objective on Anaheim’s twelfth shot with 3:42 left within the interval gave the Geese a 1–0 lead. It was his eighth objective of the season.

Silfverberg’s eighth objective got here 4:06 of the third to make it 2–0. He scored in consecutive video games for the primary time this season.

Kotkaniemi answered along with his eleventh objective simply 13 seconds later.

Terry obtained the following objective throughout a 4-on-4 lineup, pushing the Geese’ result in 3-1 with 7:59 left. It was his fifteenth.

Once more the Hurricanes reacted rapidly, as Quick scored his first objective in 12 video games 1:34 later.

Carolina was unable to transform a late energy play regardless of pulling Andersen off the web to lose to the Geese for the second time this season.

Subsequent for the geese: Host Chicago on Monday night time to open a three-game homestand.