If at first, you don't succeed, try, try, try again.
That's how the saying normally goes.
But if you're the Carolina Hurricanes' power play, it's more so try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try again because perhaps on that seventeenth chance, you'll make it count.
And on Saturday night in Game 4, it did count.
After being held without a power play goal through the first three games and first 16 opportunities of the series, the Canes finally broke through late in the third period against the New York Rangers at a time they needed it most.
The Hurricanes had conceded a lead yet again in the third period, but were given the chance to take it back as Jordan Martinook drew a call, just the third of the game, with less than four minutes to go in regulation.
Carolina had already had one fruitless power play earlier in the game, but that one at least generated a lot better looks than the previous 15.
Perhaps that helped settle the Canes into this one.
Teuvo Teravainen and Brady Skjei worked the puck back and forth before eventually Skjei let it rip as Seth Jarvis set the screen in front.
The back of the net puffed out as PNC Arena erupted in a combination of relief and elation.
They finally did it.
The build up to that goal was a combination of hope and trepidation.
The Hurricanes opened the game hot.
Evgeny Kuznetsov kicked off the scoring with his bar-down tally just 1:51 into the game after Jesperi Kotkaniemi blew up Barclay Goodrow along the blueline to both force the turnover and open up the lane.
Then not too long after, a dogged shift by the Staal line ended with Stefan Noesen chipping home a loose puck.
The Rangers would cut the lead a little later too as Will Cuylle was set up for a breakaway by Kaapo Kakko, but the Canes kept up the pressure and they built the lead back up again.
Jake Guentzel went to work below the goal line and had the patience and vision to find Sebastian Aho who leaned into a perfectly placed shot that beat Igor Shesterkin that sent Carolina to the locker rooms with a two-goal lead.
But the second period wasn't a pretty one and after a few back and forth chances for each team, Barclay Goodrow cut the lead to one as he redirected a point shot past Frederik Andersen.
Then early into the third period, Andersen had a major blunder as Alexis Lafreniere banked a puck in off of the Danish netminder's backside to tie the game at three a piece.
But the Hurricanes didn't let their game slide.
They stuck with it, kept pressuring and eventually that moment came and they finally broke through.
With the win, the Canes forced a Game 5 at Madison Square Garden where they'll try to keep the season alive for at least another game.
Because that's all they can do.
Just one game, one day at a time.