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The Carolina Hurricanes often describe their aggressive style of play as their \u201cstress game.\u201d<\/p>\n

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But the Canes faced another type of stress game Saturday. Very<\/i> stressful.<\/p>\n

After a miserable 6-2 loss to the Montreal Canadiens on Thursday in the opening game of the Eastern Conference Final, the Hurricanes found themselves in overtime Saturday in Game 2 at Lenovo Center.<\/p>\n

One mistake, one good shot or fortunate bounce by the Canadiens, and the Canes would go to Montreal for the next two games facing a 2-0 deficit in the playoff series. Their hopes of winning a Stanley Cup didn\u2019t rest on the outcome of Saturday\u2019s game \u2014 the team\u2019s playoff history has proven that \u2014 but it would make things a lot more problematic after two losses at home.<\/p>\n

The Canes had played too well for too long Saturday to let this one slip away, or at least they felt that way. Josh Anderson\u2019s second goal of the game, with seven minutes left in regulation, tied the score 2-2 for Montreal and led to the overtime but the home team found a way to win.<\/p>\n

The Canes controlled the early minutes of overtime until Nikolaj Ehlers took a pass from Mark Jankowski, blasted down the right wing, found open ice at the top of the slot and got off an unobstructed shot.<\/p>\n

Boom. Ehlers beat goalie Jakub Dobes for the second time in the game, the Canes had a 3-2 win and the arena was shaking.<\/p>\n

What was going through his mind with the game won?<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything,\u201d Ehlers said, smiling. \u201cI can barely talk right now. I was yelling freaking loudly after the OT winner.<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw \u2018Janks\u2019 and Robby (Eric Robinson) on one side and I thought I\u2019m going to pick up some speed and go to the other side and see if I can create some space and some room. It was a great pass \u2026 and then to try to get some speed and get the puck off my stick as quick as possible and try to surprise the goalie.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeeing that go in, seeing how the fans reacted, was pretty cool. That\u2019s one I\u2019m not going to forget.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jankowski, who took a pass form Jalen Chatfield and then go the puck to Ehlers, was headed to the Canes bench for a change. That changed quickly.<\/p>\n

\u201cI kind of peeked over and saw he had a good gap on the guy and shot it in,\u201d Jankowski said.<\/p>\n

Instead of sitting down, Jankowski was streaking across the ice to celebrate after the Hurricanes\u2019 first home-ice win in the conference final since 2006, Carolina\u2019s much-celebrated Cup-winning year.<\/p>\n

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Not was it the first time in the game Ehlers had the crowd standing and roaring. His first goal, in the second period, came when he streaked into the Habs zone with the puck, slowed up, spun and rifled a shot past Dobes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think his nickname is \u2018Fly\u2019 for a reason,\u201d said Robinson, who scored the game\u2019s first goal on the deflection of a William Carrier shot. \u201cHe\u2019s a special player. It seems like he gets faster when he gets the puck, which is not easy to do, and made a couple of really special plays tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ehlers was named the game\u2019s first star, but the Hurricanes had many.<\/p>\n

Defenseman Jaccob Slavin rebounded from one of his worst games to anchor a D corps burned in the 6-2 loss in Game 1. The Canes got sticks on pucks and did not allow the Canadiens to get in transition or produce breakaways.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was never worried about that,\u201d Canes coach Rod Brind\u2019Amour said of Slavin. \u201cThat\u2019s one thing I know about Jaccob. He\u2019s the best athlete I\u2019ve ever seen on just being able to turn the page. He actually showed that he was human the other night. I hadn\u2019t seen that, ever. But there\u2019s a guy that nothing bothers him. He bounced back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brind\u2019Amour made a matchup change from Game 1, sending out Jordan Staal\u2019s line \u2014 at times with Slavin and Chatfield on the back end \u2014 against Nick Suzuki\u2019s line.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s who he should be playing against, the best players, which is usually how we do it,\u201d Brind\u2019Amour said. \u201cWe obviously felt like from the other night we needed to change things up a little bit, so we did that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Suzuki and wingers Cole Caufield and Juraj Slafkovsky, three fast, skilled forwards, had a combined four shots on a very quiet night. Montreal had just 12 shots in the game — only the second NHL team to have 12 or fewer in an overtime playoff game (Chicago, 1978).<\/p>\n

Ehlers is on Staal\u2019s lime and is an underrated defensive player. He joined Staal and Jordan Martinook in building up some offensive-zone time while muzzling the Habs\u2019 top guys.<\/p>\n

The Canes now head to Montreal off a strong, solid effort and a win that reduced the stress level after Game 1.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was great being able to get that one,\u201d Jankowski said. \u201cYou don\u2019t want to go down 0-2. We knew what was at stake.\u201d<\/p>\n

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