Hurricanes stick Knights with back-to-back home losses

Spencer Martin made 29 saves and Seth Jarvis scored a short-handed, go-ahead goal to go along with an assist as the Carolina Hurricanes earned a 3-1 victory over the Vegas Golden Knights on Saturday night in Las Vegas.

Andrei Svechnikov and Stefan Noesen also scored for Carolina, which completed a sweep of a road back-to-back that began with a 5-1 win at Arizona on Friday. The Hurricanes, who are 15-4-1 in their past 20 games, also improved to 9-1-1 in their past 11 road contests.

Martin, making just his second start with the Hurricanes since being claimed off waivers from Columbus on Jan. 19, improved to 2-0 with Carolina. His only other start came on Jan. 24, when he made 26 saves in a 3-2 victory at Boston.

Jonathan Marchessault scored a goal for the third straight game and Adin Hill finished with 25 saves for Vegas. The Golden Knights, who lost 5-3 to Minnesota on Monday, have dropped back-to-back home games for the first time since doing so on Jan. 16 and Jan. 19 of 2023.

Vegas took a 1-0 lead at the 10:15 mark of the first period when Marchessault backhanded in a rebound of a Nicolas Roy shot for his team-leading 28th goal of the season. The 28 goals matched his season total for the 2022-23 campaign.

Svechnikov tied it, 1-1, early in the second period with his 12th goal, breaking down the slot and backhanding a shot over Hill's right shoulder and under the crossbar.

Carolina then took a 2-1 lead 19 seconds into the third period on the short-handed goal by Jarvis.

The puck bounced over the stick of Vegas defenseman Daniil Miromanov along the boards near the blue line, and Jarvis then scooped it up and raced down the left wing before firing a wrist shot under Hill's right pad for his 18th goal of the season.

Noesen made it 3-1 six minutes later when he batted in a fluttering rebound of a Jesperi Kotkaniemi shot. It was his 12th goal of 2023-24.