RALEIGH, N.C. — Oliver Moore scored in the shootout on his 21st birthday and Spencer Knight stopped five of six shots to give the Chicago Blackhawks a 4-3 win over the Hurricanes on Thursday night.
Connor Murphy, Ilya Mikheyev and Nick Lardis scored in regulation for the Hawks (21-22-7). Knight, who shut out the Winnipeg Jets on Monday night, made 28 saves in regulation and overtime for his second straight win.
Joel Nystrom, Jordan Staal and Jackson Blake scored for the Hurricanes (31-15-5), whose five-game home winning streak ended. Frederik Andersen stopped 18 shots and four more in the shootout.
The win capped an eventful night for Moore, who celebrated a milestone birthday. He was on the wrong side of a fight with Alexander Nikishin in the second period and then nearly won the game in overtime, but Andersen robbed him.
The Hawks led 1-0, 2-1 and 3-2 but couldn’t put the Hurricanes away in regulation. The Hurricanes have yet to lose in regulation with top defenseman Jaccob Slavin in the lineup (8-0-3).
Murphy and Blake traded goals 82 seconds apart near in the back half of the third period to send it to overtime.
Andersen came up with a pair saves — on Moore and Frank Nazar, who played for the first time since suffering a broken jaw in a Dec. 20 road loss to the Ottawa Senators — in the third period to keep the game tied at 2. Andersen made two bigger saves — on Wyatt Kaiser and Moore — in overtime.
The Hurricanes tied it at 2 on Staal’s first goal since Dec. 19 at 9:16 of the second. The Hawks had taken a 2-1 advantage after Lardis’ goal at 4:35 in the second.
Mikheyev swatted in his own rebound at 11:12 in the first to give the Hawks a 1-0 lead. It was Mikheyev’s first short-handed goal of the season.
Nystrom tied it with his first NHL goal at 12:50 in the first. The rookie defenseman has nine points in 36 games.
Up next
- Hawks: vs. Tampa Bay on Friday night at the United Center.
- Hurricanes: at Ottawa on Saturday night.