Raise Up Raleighwood! Canes are playoff bound; here's when Caniacs can buy tickets
RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- For a seventh straight year, the Carolina Hurricanes are in the National Hockey League playoffs. The Canes clinched a spot after beating the Washington Capitals Wednesday night on home ice at the Lenovo Center in Raleigh.
Hurricanes rookie Jackson Blake scored twice, helping the Canes beat the Capitals 5-1.
Logan Stankoven, Seth Jarvis and Sean Walker also scored for the Hurricanes.
The Canes matched a franchise record for going to postseason play.
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Goaltender Frederik Andersen stopped 20 of 21 shots to win his seventh straight start for Carolina.
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Capitals' Alex Ovechkin scored his 892nd career goal, moving him three away from breaking Wayne Gretzky's NHL record.
Ovechkin beat Andersen with a one-timer with Washington on a 5-on-3 power play with 34.5 seconds left in the second to cut Carolina's lead to 4-1.
Ovechkin has 17 goals in the past 25 games and has 39 for the season.
Washington goalie Logan Thompson gave up three goals in the first before he left the game at intermission with an upper-body injury and was replaced by Charlie Lindgren, who made 18 saves.
Takeaways
Hurricanes: Jarvis' power-play goal in the first was his 30th of the season. He has posted back-to-back 30-goal seasons. Blake has three goals in three games after one in his previous 25.
Capitals: Washington looked like a team playing the second half of a back to back with a playoff spot already secured and little, other than Ovechkin's chase, to play for. Thompson's health late in an impressive season is a bigger concern, over the last seven games, than winning the Presidents' Trophy.
Key moment
Jarvis' one-timer on the power play at 13:21 in the first period gave the Hurricanes a 3-0 lead and looked like an homage to Ovechkin and his signature scoring stroke from the left faceoff circle.
ESPN contributed to this story
