RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) \u2014 The Carolina Hurricanes have spent months regrouping quickly after losses and they have proven unshaken by the challenge of playing in hostile arenas or in next-goal-wins extra time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Those responses in the most\u00a0pressure-packed of scenarios\u00a0helps explain why they\u2019re\u00a0back to even in the Stanley Cup Final\u00a0after losing the opener to the\u00a0Vegas Golden Knights\u00a0heading into Saturday\u2019s Game 3 on the road. If anything, they seem to be thriving on it with a perfect record in overtime and road games in the postseason, along with avoiding consecutive losses since mid-January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a special time of year, and it\u2019s a really cool opportunity and experience we all get to have,\u201d goaltender Frederik Andersen said Friday. \u201cAnd if we weren\u2019t enjoying it as well, it would be a big shame, right?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Hurricanes improved to 13-2 in the playoffs in dramatic fashion Thursday, rallying from a two-goal deficit in the third period\u00a0to win 4-3 in overtime\u00a0and split the first two games of the best-of-seven series. The thriller ended with Seth Jarvis hammering a one-timer past Carter Hart from the left side with the man advantage, a moment the Hurricanes are hoping is\u00a0a breakthrough moment for their regular-season goals leader\u00a0and the power-play unit after both have sputtered in the postseason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The story is just as much about the Hurricanes\u2019 ability to navigate through turbulence. The win marked marked Carolina\u2019s 13th straight win when coming off a loss, a run that started after consecutive losses at Detroit and St. Louis on Jan. 12 and 13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt goes to talking about belief,\u201d forward Andrei Svechnikov said. \u201cI think we believe in the group. We\u2019re confident in what we\u2019re doing and how we\u2019re doing it. We believe in our system, and we just try to go there and play our game, and that\u2019s what we\u2019ve kind of been doing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Carolina\u2019s first postseason loss came in the Eastern Conference Final against Montreal, with the Hurricanes emerging\u00a0from an 11-day between-rounds break\u00a0\u2014 the longest in the playoffs in more than a century \u2014 and giving up four first-period goals in a 6-2 loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They responded with four straight wins, twice in overtime and then two in romps by a combined 10-1 margin\u00a0to close out the series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Coming off\u00a0a 5-4 loss in Game 1 to Vegas, Carolina responded again, though it looked grim facing a 2-0 deficit and being outplayed in a second period that coach Rod Brind\u2019Amour admitted was \u201ckind of a dud.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Hurricanes scored\u00a0three unanswered goals in a span of roughly five minutes\u00a0in the third period, the last being captain Jordan Staal\u2019s deflection from the top of the crease on the power play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then Carolina shook off Vegas scoring an OT-forcing goal with 1:21 left in regulation to cash in for a second straight time on a power play with Jarvis banging in the winner. That came on a well-executed sequence with Shayne Gostisbehere \u2014 who assisted on Staal\u2019s score \u2014 working up top.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gostisbehere sold that he might shoot the puck enough to heighten the attention of the Golden Knights\u2019 defenders packed in the middle, while Nikolaj Ehlers even hopped in the slot as though jumping over a shot. That kept Hart locked an extra beat in the middle as Gostisbehere instead passed to Jarvis on the left side for the winner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Before those scores, Carolina\u2019s power play stood at 7 for 60 (11.7%) in the playoffs after ranking fourth in the regular season (24.9%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now Carolina is 6-0 in overtime in the playoffs, including in all four Game 2 home wins, and a 6-0 on the road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFor almost 50 minutes there (emotions are) kind of low, and then kind of even, then really high, then low again, and then high,\u201d Gostisbehere said. \u201cIt\u2019s a roller coaster, for sure. But it\u2019s just managing them. We\u2019re still human beings. We\u2019re going to be nervous out there and have emotions, but the more you do it, the more you do anything, you get used to it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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