'Just Guys Stepping Up': Rod Brind'Amour, Jackson Blake, Sean Walker, Jordan Martinook On Crazy OT Win Over Pittsburgh
Wild overtime win! Hear from Brind'Amour, Blake, Walker, and Martinook on a bizarre, back-and-forth thriller that saw the Canes triumph.
The Carolina Hurricanes defeated the Pittsburgh Penguins 6-5 in overtime Wednesday night at Lenovo Center. It was a wild back and forth affair between the top two Metro teams, but in the end, the Canes came out ahead thanks to a Sean Walker blast. After the game, Hurricanes coach Rod Brind'Amour along with Jackson Blake, Walker and Jordan Martinook spoke with the media.
Here's what they had to say: Rod Brind'Amour postgame (3/18/26) Rod Brind'Amour On the game : I thought we were great pretty much all night, it was just a weird game. Like, going into the third it was 2-1 and then it ended up 6-5. You would never have thought that the way the game was going.
We created a ton of good opportunities tonight, just didn't cash in. Then a couple of weird bounces, fanning on shots to give up breakaways and we found ourselves behind somehow. But give the guys credit, we just kept playing.
It didn't really affect us one bit and it really could have easily. On the penalty kill : [The 5-on-3] was tough. You take a bad penalty and then that opens up something to happen like that and now we were at 5-on-3 for a long time.
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