RALEIGH, NC. - Yes, that actually happened.
Trailing 3-1 with 10 minutes to go in regulation on Monday night, the Carolina Hurricanes rattled off four more unanswered goals to take a shocking 5-3 win over the New York Islanders in Game 2.
It was an instant memory for many and a sequence of minutes that falls right in line with some of the best playoff moments in team history.
Seth Jarvis' goal to cut the deficit to one with just 9:17 left gave the team hope and when Sebastian Aho redirected home Andrei Svechnikov's blast to tie it, it felt like a foregone conclusion that the Canes would come out on top.
Momentum had been trending in their favor essentially since the Islanders took the 3-0 lead.
Shot attempts in the final two periods alone were 82-11, and New York's strategy of sitting back and trying to hang on for the victory was unsuccessful.
But who could have predicted that it would take just nine seconds to find the game-winning goal?
In the midst of the eruption of over 18,000 fans, Rod Brind'Amour had a quick decision to make. He had just had six of his best horses on the ice in search of the equalizer and needed three forwards out there to follow up the madness.
Jordan Martinook and Jordan Staal received the instruction, and they were flanked by Jack Drury, a combination of three not often seen together.
Then, magic.
