Hurricanes goalie Cam Ward scored an empty-net goal on Monday night against the Devils, the first of his career. Ward made 23 saves and was credited with a bizarre empty-net goal in Carolina's 4-2 win. "It would have been a lot cooler if I had shot the puck or did something like that," Ward said. The Devils were scrambling near Ward and trying to tie the game, but Ilya Kovalchuk's errant pass for Adam Henrique from the end line wound up going the length of the ice and into an empty net with 29.4 seconds left. "I don't know how to explain it. I should make better decisions that that, definitely," Kovalchuk said. "We find a way to make the game interesting and we were working hard, but a bad decision by me cost us the game." Officials initially awarded the goal to Sutter before a postgame review determined he never touched the puck. "It was Wardo's. As soon as it went in, I think we all knew it was his," Sutter said. "And then the ref kind of came up to me and asked what happened. He asked who touched it last, and it was (Ward)."