Brandon Bussi made some spectacular saves and the Carolina Hurricanes took advantage to defeat the Buffalo Sabres, 2-1, on Monday afternoon at the Lenovo Center.
Bussi, who has been setting NHL records since his time with Carolina, set another on Monday. He won his first 18 NHL games in the shortest period of time in NHL history, just 22 games. His record is now 18-3-1.
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A couple of Bussi’s saves were incredible, including one against a wide-open Tage Thompson, where the TNT announcers thought the sniper had scored and announced it as such, but the replay actually showed the goalie had somehow potted the shot.
The Hurricanes have won three straight and are 7-1-1 in their last nine games.
A minute after the change, Rasmus Dahlin fired a shot past Bussi and gave the visitors the early lead.
Later in the first half, the red-hot Andrei Svechnikov tied the score with another good pass from Sebastian Aho.
Svechnikov now has five goals in the last three games and Aho has provided assists in all of them.
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Both teams battled back and forth in a physical and entertaining showdown.
Two minutes into the third period, Seth Jarvis scored a powerful goal to give the home team a lead they would struggle to maintain the rest of the time.
Bussi made some stops until the last moment to maintain Carolina’s lead.
The Canes now have a couple of well-deserved days off before playing their next game against Chicago on Thursday night.
Game summary: https://www.nhl.com/scores/htmlreports/20252026/GS020770.HTM
Event summary: https://www.nhl.com/scores/htmlreports/20252026/ES020770.HTM
Interviews: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/ckg9jfx3sq2eulit5lrwr/ACrYTyDQZKjcAYSVhHwE-F0?rlkey=td55hicjpc0h7av6tle09m2m1&e=1&st=iwy8n87d&dl=0