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
Those responses in the most pressure-packed of scenarios<\/a> helps explain why they’re back to even in the Stanley Cup Final<\/a> after losing the opener to the Vegas Golden Knights<\/a> heading into Saturday’s 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 \u201cIt’s a special time of year, and it’s a really cool opportunity and experience we all get to have,\u201d goaltender Frederik Andersen said Friday. \u201cAnd if we weren’t enjoying it as well, it would be a big shame, right?\u201d<\/p>\n The Hurricanes improved to 13-2 in the playoffs in dramatic fashion Thursday, rallying from a two-goal deficit in the third period to win 4-3 in overtime<\/a> and 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 a breakthrough moment for their regular-season goals leader<\/a> and the power-play unit after both have sputtered in the postseason.<\/p>\n The story is just as much about the Hurricanes’ ability to navigate through turbulence. The win marked marked Carolina’s 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 \u201cIt goes to talking about belief,” forward Andrei Svechnikov said. “I 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 Carolina’s first postseason loss came in the Eastern Conference Final against Montreal, with the Hurricanes emerging from an 11-day between-rounds break<\/a> \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 They responded with four straight wins, twice in overtime and then two in romps by a combined 10-1 margin to close out the series<\/a>.<\/p>\n Coming off a 5-4 loss in Game 1 to Vegas<\/a>, Carolina responded again, though it looked grim facing a 2-0 deficit and being outplayed in a second period that coach Rod Brind’Amour admitted was \u201ckind of a dud.”<\/p>\n