"He's been doing this all year for us. It was great execution on that," Brind'Amour said. "Nice to get a bounce at the end to tie it up."
"You've always got to believe that you can do it. See it. Think it. Do it," Williams said. "If we're thinking it and believing it, then the next process is doing it. We've been pretty good with that this year."
This, after Jake Guentzal, Bryan Rust and Kris Letang went tic-tac-toe in transition to give the Penguins a 2-1 lead with 4:37 left in regulation.
Resiliency.
"It's deflating, obviously, but Rod always says you play all the way to the whistle. If it takes us 59:59 to get the equalizer to win the game, that's what we're going to do," Williams said. "Stick with it. Stick with our plan."
So, they did. And, it worked.
"I'm proud of the way we're playing, absolutely," Williams said. "You don't know how far you can go or how good you can play until you get out there until you do it. We're playing well, and we're going to see where it takes us and how good we can be."
Three
The Hurricanes earned their 40th win of the season - an even 20 and 20 split at home and on the road - with a 1-0 scoresheet in the shootout.
Hamilton was up first, and he got Murray moving before sliding the puck past him for the lone goal in the shootout. Murray denied Sebastian Aho and Jaccob Slavin, but Petr Mrazek was one better at the other end of the ice.