Seth Jarvis scored 1:45 into overtime to give the Carolina Hurricanes a 4-3 win over the host Los Angeles Kings on Saturday night.
Captain Jordan Staal had two goals, including his 300th, and Jesperi Kotkaniemi also scored for the Hurricanes, who blew a 3-0 lead. Defenseman K’Andre Miller had two assists and Brandon Bussi made 25 saves.
Carolina is the NHL’s only undefeated team at 5-0-0.
Trevor Moore, Andrei Kuzmenko and Kevin Fiala got the goals for the Kings, who lost their fourth straight (0-2-2). Adrian Kempe had two assists and Anton Forsberg stopped 36 shots.
Jarvis put in a loose puck near the crease for the game winner and his sixth goal. He has three goals in his last two games and points in all five games this season.
Fiala tied the game 3-3 with 8:58 left in regulation. He beat Bussi with a shot from the right circle off the rush for Fiala’s fourth goal to extend his goal streak to three games.
Kuzmenko’s power-play goal with 3:56 left in the middle period pulled the Kings to within one. He converted a cross-crease pass for his second goal.
Staal scored twice in the first four minutes to give Carolina a 2-0 lead.
The first came just 12 seconds into the game when he put a cross-crease pass from William Carrier into the open side of the net for his milestone goal.
Staal then ripped a one-timer from the slot that trickled through Forsberg’s pads at 3:58 for Staal’s third of the season.
Kotkaniemi made it 3-0, 3:43 into the second period on a breakaway goal that was actually a 2-on-none.
Moore put Los Angeles on the board just 52 seconds later on a slap shot from the upper inside edge of the left circle for his second goal.
An apparent goal by Moore 5:24 into the second was immediately waved off because of goaltender interference by Warren Foegele.
Hurricanes’ defenseman Shayne Gostisbehere left the game in the first period with a lower-body injury after playing 4:06.
–Field Level Media
