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RALEIGH Authentic Jaccob Slavin Jersey , N.C. (AP) —In the span of six days he became a father, signed a contract extension and scored a game-winning goal.Martinook scored the go-ahead goal Friday night, and the Carolina Hurricanes beat the Vegas Golden Knights 5-2 in the teams’ return from the All-Star break.Martinook’s wife gave birth to their first child on Jan. 26. Three days later, he signed a two-year, $4 million extension. He capped off the week with the tiebreaking goal late in the second period as the Hurricanes won for the third time in four games.The goal was Martinook’s 11th in 51 games this season, tying his single-season career-high. He scored 11 in 77 games with Arizona in 2016-17.“I don’t know if I want to have another baby yet, but I definitely want to have another week like that,” Martinook said. “To have another one of those weeks, that would be good.”Nino Niederreiter, Brett Pesce and Sebastian Aho also scored, and Justin Faulk added an empty-netter with 49 seconds remaining. Justin Williams had two assists and Petr Mrazek stopped 22 shots.Shea Theodore scored twice for Vegas Jeff Skinner Jersey , which has lost five of seven. Maxime Lagace stopped 27 of 31 shots in his first game since being recalled from the American Hockey League.“Both teams were the same, they had the same break that we had, it’s just they were the better team,” Golden Knights coach Gerard Gallant said. “We didn’t play good enough to win, bottom line. We played good in spurts but not good enough to win.”Carolina came out fast and peppered Lagace early to set the tempo. Vegas struck first with a power-play goal by Theodore just over five minutes in, but the Hurricanes responded quickly.Williams notched his first assist on a nifty play in which he redirected a rolling puck into the slot with the outside of his skate. Niederreiter snapped off a wrist shot to make it 1-1.“That’s a top-10 play (by Williams),” Hurricanes coach Rod Brind’Amour said. “You’re not going to see too many guys think to do that.”Carolina took the lead 47 seconds into the second period when Lagace ventured too far out of his crease to try and poke away a loose puck. Pesce corralled Lagace’s feeble push and lifted it into a wide-open net for the lead.Theodore tied it with a shot through traffic late in the period, but Carolina again responded quickly.Just 36 seconds after Theodore’s tying goal, Martinook buried Brock McGinn’s pass with a one-timer to finish off a pretty odd-man rush, putting Carolina back in front.“It’s probably a little cliché but that one felt pretty good,” Martinook said. “As soon as I scored it I just had one thought in my mind http://www.officialhurricanes.com/authentic-adidas-jordan-staal-jersey , and it was my kid. It was pretty cool.”Aho opened up a two-goal lead in the third with a tremendous individual effort, carrying the puck from center ice all the way to the net and flipping a backhander from a sharp angle over Lagace’s shoulder. The Hurricanes never let up, staying on the attack the entire way and limiting Vegas to five shots in the final period.“The third period, I thought that was great,” Brind’Amour said. “We’re up a goal but we looked like the team that needed to get a couple, and that’s the way we have to play.”NOTES: McGinn went for X-rays after taking a slap shot by Theodore off his ankle in the final minute. Brind’Amour did not have an immediate update on McGinn’s status. … Niederreiter has five goals in five games with the Hurricanes since being acquired from Minnesota on Jan. 17. … Faulk’s assist in the first period moved him past Dave Babych for most career points by a defenseman in franchise history (241). .. Aho extended his point streak to four games, and Jaccob Slavin extended his assist streak to four straight. … Hurricanes G Curtis McElhinney missed his fifth straight game with a knee injury. He remains day-to-day. …. Vegas has been held to two goals or less in four of its last five.UP NEXTGolden Knights: At Florida on Saturday.Hurricanes: Host Calgary on Sunday. RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — As the final minutes ticked down off the clock Saturday night, the nearly sold-out crowd at PNC Arena began chanting: “We Want Play-OFFS!” at high volume and in perfect unison.The Carolina Hurricanes are close, and they and their postseason-starved fans can feel it.Teuvo Teravainen had a goal and two assists and the Hurricanes kept pace in the playoff race with a 5-1 win over the Minnesota Wild.Jordan Staal, Brett Pesce Womens Justin Faulk Jersey , Andrei Svechnikov and Lucas Wallmark also scored for Carolina, which picked up its fifth win in seven games to keep its hold on the Eastern Conference’s first wild-card spot. Petr Mrazek stopped 24 shots.The Hurricanes, who own the NHL’s longest playoff drought at nine seasons, have a five-point cushion with eight games to play.“Our fans are really getting into it and helping us. That was nice to hear,” Teravainen said. “Every game is huge for us right now. Hopefully we can keep building here.”Eric Staal scored and Devan Dubnyk made 28 saves for the Wild, who dropped out of the eighth and final playoff spot in the Western Conference with the loss and Colorado’s 4-2 win over Chicago. Minnesota played without leading scorer Zach Parise after he took a high stick to the face against Washington on Friday.With the Wild lacking their primary scoring threat, the Hurricanes outshot Minnesota 34-25 and controlled the tempo from the outset.“There were some unforced errors,” Wild coach Bruce Boudreau said, “and if we want to have any hope, we can’t have unforced errors at this point in the season.”The first period was scoreless only because Dubnyk kept it that way, making a string of highlight-reel saves_including stopping Svechnikov on a breakaway_to keep Carolina off the board.But the Hurricanes finally broke through 3:06 into the second when Justin Faulk’s shot from the point hit Jordan Staal’s skate in front of the net and redirected through Dubnyk’s legs Justin Williams Jersey , and the floodgates opened.Just over two minutes later, following a Wild turnover at center ice, Justin Williams fed Pesce at the top of the left faceoff circle and Pesce finished with a wrister past Dubnyk’s glove into the upper-left corner to make it 2-0.“It was big getting those first two,” Teravainen said. “We had a lot of good chances but their goalie played pretty good at the start. But when we got a couple it was a good feeling seeing the puck finally go in, and the confidence builds.”Eric Staal got Minnesota on the board with a power-play goal midway through the second after Micheal Ferland received a double-minor for high-sticking, but Carolina put it away with three third-period goals.Svechnikov took a nifty backhand pass from Teravainen in the slot and buried it in the opening minutes of the third to make it a two-goal game again, and Wallmark finished a one-timer from Ferland with 10:51 remaining to all but wrap up the victory.Teravainen added the final punch when he intercepted a pass at the Minnesota blue line and beat Dubnyk with a backhander on a breakaway.The Hurricanes’ third-period outburst stood in stark contrast to their previous game, when they had a one-goal lead against Nashville entering the third period and surrendered four unanswered goals.“That was the way to play in the third,” Carolina coach Rod Brind’Amour said. “They were grinding. They’re in playoff mode.”NOTES: Teravainen recorded his 50th assist of the season on Jordan Staal’s goal, and Sebastian Aho recorded his 50th assist on Pesce’s goal. They became the first Hurricanes teammates with 50 assists in the same season since Brind’Amour and Ray Whitney in 2006-07. … Williams notched his 300th career point with the Hurricanes. He became the ninth player in team history to reach that mark. … Wild F Joel Eriksson Ek (lower-body injury) missed his sixth straight game. He is day to day. … Carolina improved to 10-3-1 in its last 14 games. … The Wild have won just three of their past 11 games.UP NEXTWild: Host Nashville on Monday.Hurricanes: Host Montreal on Sunday.