RALEIGH, N.C. — When the video board asks you to go “tarps off,” you say “yes.”And with the Carolina Hurricanes trailing the Vegas Golden Knights by two goals on Thursday, about 10 minutes from falling in a 2-0 hole in the Stanley Cup Final, that was the suggestion from Carolina’s event presentation team. Fans obliged in droves, popping off their shirts and bringing a building that had stagnated into stressed silence back to the top of its register.Within moments, Carolina center Logan Stankoven scored to make it 2-1. Within a few minutes, the game was tied 3-3 and headed to overtime. And by the end of the night, Seth Jarvis had scored a power-play goal that sent the crowd even further into madness and changed the shape of the series, which now heads to Las Vegas for Saturday’s Game 3.Correlation is not causation. We’re not going to say that Hurricanes’ fans “tarps off” moment — the latest installment in a cross-sport epidemic of (largely) male shirtlessness — led to their team’s comeback.Jarvis, though, sounds like a believer. “It’s not warm in there,” he said postgame. “That’s kind of what kick-started our whole little press there in the third.”
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