Point set up at the crease and redirected a pass from D’Astous into an open net behind Kochetkov to make it 3-2 at 1:20.

“There’s a lot of accountability on this team, a lot of guys speaking up in the room after that first period,” McDonagh said, “We were embarrassed. You feed off that first shift [of the second period]. Obviously they score a goal and they set the tone right away for us.”

Finley tied it 3-3 on a breakaway at 16:36 when he put a rebound past Kochetkov’s left skate after his initial shot was stopped.

“The first period wasn’t great, but I thought in the second we came out hard and stuck with it in the third,” Finley said. “That just shows the character in this room. [Dominic] James was driving our line all night. It was a team effort.”

Svechnikov regained a 4-3 lead for Carolina at 2:47 of the third period, skating in on a 2-on-1 and lifting a pass from Mark Jankowski over Vasilevskiy’s left pad.

“We’ve got to be hard to play against,” Staal said. “I think we got a little soft. It ended up being a shootout but in the wrong direction for us.”

McDonagh tied the game 4-4 at 3:13 after breaking through two defenders and slipping the puck between Kochetkov’s pads.

“It was a good 40-minute game, we’re trying to get closer to a 60-minute game here at home,” McDonagh said. “But obviously a good response in the end.”

Guentzel scored into the empty net at 19:33 for the 6-4 final.

“Three in four nights, you can feel it,” Brind’Amour said. “This is part of the schedule that you have to grind out and we didn’t tonight.”

NOTES: With an assist, Lightning forward Nikita Kucherov recorded his fourth calendar year with at least 110 regular-season points and tied Jari Kurri and Peter Stastny for the second-highest total by a player born outside North America. The only players with more are Leon Draisaitl and Jaromir Jagr (both with five). … Point has eight points (three goals, five assists) over his past six games. … Hurricanes defenseman Jaccob Slavin was a healthy scratch as Brind’Amour did not want to play him in back-to-back games as he continued to work his way back from a lower-body injury.