RALEIGH, N.C. - Jordan Staal may be just what the Carolina Hurricanes needed to avoid running away with last place in the NHLs Eastern Conference.Staal, whose brother Eric is the team captain, scored his first goal of the season to get things started, and the Hurricanes eventually held off the Colorado Avalanche 3-2 in a shootout on Tuesday night.Carolina is 4-3-1 since the alternate captain returned to the ice after suffering a broken leg in a preseason game. It is 4-1-1 over its last six.It was a really good start, said Hurricanes coach Bill Peters, who celebrated his 50th birthday with the win. I was happy with it for sure. It would have been nice to get a few more in the first, but that wasnt the case. I didnt think we held onto our success as well as we should have.It was important for Jordan to get that first, but hes had good looks every night. His line was dominant early.Victor Rask and Elias Lindholm scored the shootout goals for Carolina, while Anton Khudobin — who has won three straight and finished with 28 saves — stoned both Colorado shots in the shootout.Patrick Dwyer scored the other goal for the Hurricanes, who have won five straight home games against the Avalanche with one in overtime and the other in the shootout.Matt Duchene and John Mitchell scored third period goals for the Avalanche.Colorado won the teams only other meeting this season at home with a 4-3 comeback on Nov. 22.Calvin Pickard stopped 44 shots for Colorado, which was coming off a 2-1 loss at Washington on Monday night that broke a three-game winning streak.(Pickard) was phenomenal, especially in the third period, but he was good all night long, said Colorado coach Patrick Roy.Dont forget we played last night in Washington. Im not looking for excuses, but they were here waiting for us, he said. They were ready and they were skating well. They seemed to be very fresh and sometimes it makes a big difference.Carolina has not allowed a power-play goal in a franchise-record 11 games. Each team was penalized just once during the game.Jordan Staal got Carolina on the board at 14:05 of the first period, receiving Ryan Murphys give-and-go pass back into the slot and beating Pickard stick side.You want to start like that every time, Jordan Staal said. Obviously theyre going to be a team thats going to push back, and they did.Its nice to get the goose egg out of the way. Its been happening for few games — Ive had some good chances.Dwyer made it 2-0 at 6:03 of the second, beating Pickard on an assist from Brad Malone with Jay McClement on the screen. Malone was playing his first home game against his former team since signing with the Hurricanes on July 1. McClement has also spent time with Colorado.Duchene cut the lead in half for Colorado when he scored his 12th goal of the season at 25 seconds of the third with Jarome Iginla on the primary assist.Mitchell tied it at 10:05 with a slap shot from the right wing on a rush.I just wanted to be consistent with my game, Khudobin said. I knew they were coming and were not going to give up for sure. Maybe I was too energetic for the game. After their goals, I settled down.NOTES — Colorados next game is on Thursday night at Florida, while Carolina has a home game Friday night against Vancouver. ... It was Carolina D Justin Faulks first home contest since being selected for the NHL All-Star Game. ... The Hurricanes 20 shots in the first period made for the first 20-shot frame since a 3-2 win at Winnipeg last March 22. The franchise record for shots in a period was 32 on March 15, 1984, when, as the Hartford Whalers, they beat Toronto 5-3. ... 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After team mechanics tended to the car, Ricciardo went back out for a mere two trips around the circuit before calling it quits.CONCORD, N.C. - Danica Patrick admits there are some occupational hazards to dating a fellow NASCAR driver.In a column for Derek Jeters new sports website, The Players Tribune, Patrick wrote that racing against boyfriend Ricky Stenhouse Jr. can create Montagues and the Capulets moments a€” a reference to the feuding families of the star-crossed lovers in Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet.If its crazy to want to go to sleep next to the person who ran your car off the road going 200 miles per hour earlier that day, then Im certifiable, she wrote.Patrick and Stenhouse went public with their relationship in early 2013 and have had only a handful of scrapes on the track. After their most recent, at Chicago last month, she used profanity to discuss it with him after the race. Then they moved on.Hes also extremely cuddly, which really helps his cause, because sometimes Im not very happy with him, she wrote.Jeter launched his website at the beginning of the month after he retired from the New York Yankees. The site is devoted to delivering athletes unfiltered views to the fans, and The Players Tribune is being billed as a digital company that will offer unique access to top athletes in every sport. Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson wrote about domeestic violence in an earlier post.ddddddddddddPatrick used her debut on the site to touch on a variety of topics, including her struggles in NASCAR and the question of children, a decision for us to consider in our future.This is stuff that I didnt entertain before I was with him and its a big part of my life now, she wrote. Its a question that every ambitious, working woman has to grapple with.She also addressed her extreme popularity. She noted she gets attention for being a female driver, and that a decent finish often comes with more publicity than a male driver would receive.Plenty of drivers have the same result every single weekend and dont get near the same publicity. Balancing that difference can be tricky, she said.Patrick had to balance a recent sixth-place finish at Atlanta with Stenhouses bad day. She said it made for several quiet moments on the plane.Ricky had a bad race. I had my best-ever finish. I was very happy. He was very bummed, she wrote. But after about 10 minutes, we did what all drivers do in awkward moments of silence. We talked about how our cars were running. Pretty soon, everything in our relationship was back to normal. Well, our normal anyway.___Online:Jeters site: http://www.theplayerstribune.com ' ' '