You can never know how it will end in this league. It's so hard to win, says Tampa coach Jon Cooper to reporters after the match.
You can't give up, it's just keep going, he adds.
Tampa's equalizer to 3–3 came with just 41 seconds left in the third period, behind an Arvid Söderblom who had more than three times as many shots to save as colleague Johansson on the opposing team.
After just one minute of overtime, it was curtains for Chicago when Nikita Kucherov scored the winning goal to 4–3 on an assist from Swedish defenseman Victor Hedman, his second of the evening.
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