In Tampa, the Lightning were unable to hold to a 1-0 lead on Tuesday night.
The Carolina Hurricanes scored midway through the third period off the power play on a goal from Teuvo Teravainen to tie it, 1-1, to force extra time.
Frederik Andersen made 17 saves for the Canes win.
“It was a great goaltending performance from both teams,” Carolina head coach Rod Brind’Amour said. “It was a pretty exciting game for a relatively low-scoring game.”
Martin Necas hit for the game-winner with 94 seconds left in the extra session.
Steven Stamkos was the lone striker for the Lightning.
“They’re a man-on-man team, so if you get in the corner and you beat a guy coming out of the corner you’ve got to take it to the net and things are going to open up,” Stamkos said. “[Joseph] utilized his speed, which he does every night, and made a great play. I just had to pop out and hope that he saw me, and he did. Tremendous play.”
Tampa Bay dropped to 6-3-3).
The Lightning were scoreless in four power play chances.
“That was arguably the difference, our [penalty kill] was outstanding, especially to get through that 5-on-3 for as long as we did,” Tampa head coach Jon Cooper said. “But you give a power play like that 8 1/2 minutes of time you’re flirting with danger.
“The problem is we had seven minutes of power-play time and I think we had one shot on goal. Our power play most definitely needs to be better.”
The Bolts’ Andrei Vasilevskiy made 29 saves in the loss.
“[Vasilevskiy] is a great goalie, we know that, everybody knows that,” Teravainen said. “He played a great game. We’ve just got to put the pucks at him and create some traffic.”
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