After losing a two-goal lead in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final, the Carolina Hurricanes turned the tables on the Vegas Golden Knights in Game 2 and rallied for a 4-3 overtime win to tie the series at one game apiece.
Carolina trailed by two goals with less than 10 minutes to play, but rallied to play its way back into the series as it shifts to Vegas this weekend.
Here are some more winners and losers from Thursday’s game.
Game 2 winners
Carolina’s power play. If the Hurricanes have had one weakness in these playoffs, it has been without a doubt their power play. It has been ice-cold for most of the postseason and was starting to become a liability.
Maybe they were due, because they scored two of their biggest goals of the season on Thursday to help complete the comeback.
Jordan Staal scored a power-play goal with under five minutes to play to give Carolina its first lead of the game, and then Seth Jarvis scored the winner in overtime on a power play to even the series.
It is not always about how many goals, but when you get them.
Seth Jarvis, Carolina Hurricanes. That last line also applies to Jarvis. He has been one of Carolina’s best goal-scorers over the past three years, but he entered Thursday’s game with just three goals in 12 playoff games, with one of them being an empty-netter.
Then he scored one of the biggest goals of his career so far in overtime.