NHL makes bizarre overtime reversal after messy Hurricanes finish

The headline isn't just that the NHL changed the goal. It's that Carolina created a finish messy enough around the crease that the league had to revisit it twice before settling back on Svechnikov.

Brind'Amour's team lives in those layers. The Hurricanes don't need a clean look to break a game open. They need traffic, second touches, and one forward willing to stay in the blue paint.

Svechnikov finished with 1 goal on 5 shots. Seth Jarvis was left with the lone assist, which sharpened the final version of the play after the scoring changed hands.

For Montreal, that's the real sting. Jakub Dobes faced 38 shots and stopped 35, yet the game turned on a sequence where he never got a clean, settled crease in overtime.

The puck jammed through bodies at the top of the crease, the net-front traffic collapsed, and the finish looked chaotic before the scorer's table caught up to the ice.

The second post added the bigger layer: this became Svechnikov's first career playoff overtime goal. That turns a bookkeeping twist into a playoff milestone.

The rebound sequence unfolded with sticks, skates, and bodies crossing Dobes' sightline all at once, and the celebration started before the official credit felt settled.

Carolina now leads the series 2-1, but the bigger takeaway is tactical. The Hurricanes are forcing Montreal to defend through contact and confusion, not just off the rush.

That's why this wasn't a random scoring correction. It underlined who controlled the deciding ice, and it showed how thin the margin gets when Carolina parks a game in your crease.

If Montreal is going to answer in Game 4, Martin St-Louis needs a cleaner net-front response from his defensemen. Otherwise, the next review may feel a lot like this one.

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