In Raleigh, the Hurricanes’ Sebastian Aho scored the deciding goal in the sixth round of the skills competition on Thursday night, to down the Tampa Bay Lighting, 4-3.
Fredrik Andersen made 23 saves in the Hurricanes win.
The two teams traded goals throughout regulation with Carolina taking an early 1-0 lead off a strike from Seth Jarvis in the first period.,.
Carolina improved to 7-2-1.
Tampa’s Ross Colton tied it 1-1 with a power play goal in the middle frame.
The Lightning took a 2-1 lead off a goal from Nicholas Paul in the second.
Carolina replied with a goal from Martin Necas to tie it, 2-2.
Tampa dropped to 6-4-1.
With Carolina chasing the Bolts all night, Nikita Kucherov gave Tampa a 3-2 on a two-man power play in the middle frame.
Brady Skjei forced the extra session with a goal in the 14th minute of the third period.
Andrei Vasilevskiy made 52 saves in the Tampa loss.
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