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The Carolina Hurricanes erased a two-goal shortage and earned a melodramatic 4-3 overtime victory implicit the Vegas Golden Knights connected Thursday nighttime astatine Lenovo Center, evening the Stanley Cup Final astatine 1 crippled apiece.
Seth Jarvis scored the winner connected a powerfulness play 3:56 into overtime, firing a one-timer past Vegas goaltender Carter Hart aft a tripping punishment connected Tomas Hertl gave Carolina a antheral advantage. The decisive extremity marked Carolina’s sixth consecutive overtime triumph of the postseason.
Vegas controlled the aboriginal stages and built a 2-0 pb down 2 goals from Brett Howden. The Golden Knights remained up entering the 3rd play earlier Carolina surged backmost with goals from Logan Stankoven and Mark Jankowski to necktie the game. Hurricanes skipper Jordan Staal past redirected a power-play changeable to springiness Carolina its archetypal pb astatine 3-2 with 4:35 near successful regulation. Vegas responded with an other attacker connected the ice, forcing overtime erstwhile Mark Stone’s changeable redirected into the nett disconnected a defender with 1:21 remaining.
Jarvis yet delivered the decisive moment, preventing the Hurricanes from falling into a 2-0 bid spread connected location ice. Frederik Andersen made 23 saves successful the win, portion Shayne Gostisbehere contributed 2 assists. Hart stopped 22 shots for Vegas.
The game besides included a frightening wounded to Golden Knights defenseman Brayden McNabb, who near successful the archetypal play aft being struck successful the look by a changeable from Carolina’s Nikolaj Ehlers. McNabb was transported to a infirmary for valuation and did not return.
After Vegas claimed Game 1 by a 5-4 score, Carolina’s comeback triumph turned the matchup into a best-of-five series. The Stanley Cup Final present shifts to Las Vegas for Game 3 connected Saturday night.
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