The overtime of the Carolina Hurricanes' game against the Ottawa Senators on Tuesday was the kind of overtime that comes around far too rarely.
It was the four-on-four overtime that was likely envisioned when the concept was introduced in 1999: a rink full of space and eight skaters eager to take advantage of it without abandon, ready to risk almost everything to try to win the game on each rush.
The disease of ultra-conservatism that usually plagues NHL overtimes nowadays was nonexistent. The teams—one desperately needing the two points, the other with nothing to lose—appeared fully content to trade odd-man counterattacks back and forth.
It was just the kind of reckless, thrilling party of an overtime that's usually cut off far too early by the horn and banished to commissioner Gary Bettman's dreaded shootout land. But this time, it wasn't.
Erik Karlsson, Kyle Turris and Mark Stone combined for an absolutely spectacular goal to win it for Ottawa with 14 seconds left in the extra frame. From a neutral perspective, one could hardly have imagined a better and more fitting finish to the co ...
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Carolina Hurricanes Prepared to Embrace 3-on-3 NHL Overtimes
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