They may get down, but the Carolina Hurricanes are never out.
After trailing 3-0 and 4-2 at different points, the Canes scored two late goals to force overtime and eventually stole the win against the Toronto Maple Leafs with a 5-4 shootout victory Saturday night at Scotiabank Arena.
Early on, the game looked like a steady back and forth contest.
Through the first 20 minutes, the two teams exchanged chances and both goalies looked dialed in.
But in the second period, things started to unravel.
In the middle frame, the Canes were sloppy with the puck and through the neutral zone and on three separate occasions, the Hurricanes surrendered breakaways which Toronto buried to put Carolina in a 3-0 hole.
However, the Canes started to build themselves back up late in the period and eventually they broke through.
Jordan Martinook was Johnny on the Spot as he banged home a rebound off of a Brent Burns blast to put Carolina on the board.
Then in the final minute of the second, the Canes were awarded a power play and Seth Jarvis scored another from the doorstep with 5 seconds left in the period.
The Hurricanes looked to have completed the comeback right at the start of the third period as a Jake Guentzel deflection squeaked through Ilya Samsonov, but the puck was swept off the line and not long after the Maple Leafs got yet another breakaway and pushed their lead back up to two.
It looked like things were a wrap for Carolina, but after pulling Pyotr Kochetkov with over three minutes to go, the Hurricanes drew a call and Sebastian Aho put home a Dmitry Orlov feed to cut the lead down to one.
And then with time ticking down, Evgeny Kuznetsov collected the puck on the half-wall, waited, waited, waited and then found Burns at the point who released a shot that hit a body in front, Aho again, and the puck found its way in to tie the game with just seven seconds remaining.
In overtime, the Canes were called for a hook and the biggest bend don't break moment followed with Kochetkov and the penalty killers putting the team on their back to take it to a shootout.
In the shootout, Kochetkov stopped all three shooters, including a poke check on Max Domi in the third round and Guentzel followed it up with the game winner.
Kochetkov was dynamite all night, stopping 36 of the 40 shots he faced and he continues to build on what's been an incredible season.