Hurricanes stun defending champion Capitals in 2OT of Game 7:
McGinn dived to prevent a goal in the final minutes of regulation and then scored 11:05 into the second extra period, and Petr Mrazek made 34 saves to continue an upset-heavy first round of the NHL playoffs. Carolina had the first nine shots of the first OT and 11 of 15 total, with coach Rod Brind'Amour's group showing it had plenty left in the tank.
"Time and time again we've just manned up," said Hurricanes captain Justin Williams, who had an assist on McGinn's winner."It would have been easy to fold up, especially against a team like that. ... Our guys really fought." In one of the strangest first rounds in recent history, the Hurricanes beating the Capitals doesn't even rank at the top of unlikely outcomes after Columbus swept Presidents' Trophy winning Tampa Bay and Colorado closed out Western Conference top seed Calgary in five. With all four wild-card teams winning, Carolina now faces former Capitals coach Barry Trotz and the New York Islanders in the second round starting Friday in Brooklyn.
Williams —"Mr. Game 7" with an NHL-record 15 points in the deciding games — and the Hurricanes celebrated their first series victory since 2009, while the Capitals lost in the first round for the first time since 2013. Despite goals by Andre Burakovsky, Tom Wilson and Evgeny Kuznetsov and a monster game from captain Alex Ovechkin, Washington fell to 4-8 in Game 7 during the Ovechkin era.
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