The Canes just weren’t sharp Saturday night in New Jersey, falling to the Metro basement-dwelling Devils 7-4.
Carolina got off to an early 2-0 lead, thanks to Andrei Svechnikov and Ian Cole, but let the Devils come right back into it late in the first period on two goals from Nathan Bastian. Josh Leivo and Brady Skjei scored for the Hurricanes in the second period, but it wasn’t enough to hang with an onslaught of goals from the Devils.
Along with Bastian’s two, Michael McLeod, Andreas Johnsson, Jesper Bratt, Jack Hughes and Pavel Zacha scored for the Devils.