Well thrillseekers, it just wasn't to be tonight at the Prudential Center, as many of you know already, Carolina evened the series with New Jersey 1-1 with a 2-1 overtime victory over the Devils. Johnny smelled overtime midway in the second period and told Mrs. Johnny then it was headed to free hockey. This of course thrilled her to no end. Then Johnny began torturing her with memories of 3 and 4 overtime NHL playoff games; "Remember that time Pat LaFontaine scored on Easter morning when the Islanders beat Washington in 4 overtimes? That was cool eh?". Give Hurricanes head coach Paul Maurice credit too, he started short shifting his defense corps early in the third period like he felt overtime was coming too. Johnny was watching the Carolina bench and counting time on the Hurricanes defense shifts and it was never more than 30 seconds, in some cases the third Carolina pairing was out for 15 or 20 seconds, just long enough to get a clear and a dump in. Lo and behold in overtime the Carolina defense were active active active holding pucks in and a defenseman scored the OT winner with an assist from another defenseman. Make it Tim Gleason from Joe Corvo. D to D and back to Raleigh at 1-1. FYI, this was Carolina's fifth playoff overtime victory over the Devils in five tries. Yikes.
Time for Jersey City, After Dark
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