Necas, Hurricanes defeat Lightning in OT for 10th win

TAMPA-- Martin Necas scored with 1:34 remaining in overtime to give the Carolina Hurricanes a 2-1 win against the Tampa Bay Lightning at Amalie Arena on Tuesday.

Necas crisscrossed with Sebastian Aho, pulled up at the top of the left circle and scored with a shot to the near post.
"I was kind of waiting through the neutral zone, I was kind of going side to side," Necas said. "I think it was [Lightning defenseman Victor Hedman], he gave me a little space, so I tried to kind of cut back, cut it in the middle and shoot through him and then break out."
Teuvo Teravainen scored the tying goal in the third period for the Hurricanes (10-1-0). Frederik Andersen made 17 saves.
Steven Stamkos scored for the Lightning (6-3-3), who extended their point streak to six games. Andrei Vasilevskiy made 29 saves.
"It was a great goaltending performance from both teams," Carolina coach Rod Brind'Amour said. "It was a pretty exciting game for a relatively low-scoring game."
Carolina defenseman Brady Skjei had a goal overturned 1:39 into overtime when video review showed Vincent Trocheck was offside on the play.
"I got one through in overtime and it ended up being offsides," Skjei said. "The guys just kind of stayed up on the bench. I think we had 2 1/2 or three minutes left and we thought we could get it done. [Necas] had a great goal to get us the two points."
Stamkos gave the Lightning a 1-0 lead at 9:00 of the second period. Mathieu Joseph won a puck battle on the boards and skated out to the hash marks, where he passed to Stamkos at the edge of the left circle for a one-timer.
"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."

Teravainen tied it 1-1 with a power-play goal at 9:56 of the third period. Trocheck made a cross-crease pass to Teravainen, who was open for a backdoor goal.
"[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."
Carolina had a 5-on-3 advantage for 1:34 in the second period and failed to score despite Vasilevskiy being without a skate blade for almost a minute after Teravainen's shot knocked it off.
"You don't see that very often," Teravainen said. "I didn't know the rule ... if they were going to whistle the game down or just keep going. Everybody just tried to create something, do something and got a little confused."
The Lightning were 0-for-4 on the power play and are 3-for-28 since losing forward Nikita Kucherov to a lower-body injury on Oct. 16.
"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 Bay 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."
NOTES: Lightning defenseman Erik Cernak left the game in the first period with an upper-body injury. Cooper said he expects Cernak to miss a few games. ... Lightning forward Alex Killorn had an assist and has scored eight points (four goals, four assists) in the past six games. ... Hurricanes defenseman Tony DeAngelo had an assist on the game-winning goal. He has scored seven points (two goals, five assists) in the past six games. ... Hurricanes center Andrei Svechnikov had an assist and has scored a point in all but one game (15 points; seven goals, eight assists). ... Trocheck has scored six points (one goal, five assists) in the past six games.