The Carolina Hurricanes took care of business in overtime, and then did it again, Tuesday night in Tampa, beating the defending champs 2-1 thanks to a Martin Necas winner.
The Canes played a fairly complete game of hockey but couldn’t get anything past Andrei Vasilevskiy in the early going, sticking with it to tie the game midway through the third and get the overtime win.
Some takeaways from a very positive performance Tuesday night:
Deja vu, all over again
After the Canes tied the game and forced overtime midway through the third period on a picturesque power-play goal from Teuvo Teravainen, it looked like Carolina had won things a minute and a half into overtime on a rocket from Brady Skjei.