RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- The Carolina Hurricanes have talked all season about the character in their locker room. It never showed more than Friday night.

Jeff O'Neill, who moved from second-line center to first-line right wing halfway through the game, scored two third-period goals as Carolina overcame a four-goal deficit for the first time since 1980 to tie Anaheim 4-4.

	Carolina's Steve Halko gives Anaheim's Jeff Nielsen an unexpected ride to the ice on Friday night.

"This was a big character point," Carolina coach Paul Maurice said. "It is going to have some long-lasting effects in that room."

Future Hall of Famer Paul Coffey did most of the talking in the locker room with Carolina down 4-1 after two periods, according to O'Neill, who scored his 13th and 14th goals of the season.

"Between the second and third periods Paul Coffey motivated the troops," O'Neill said. "I told him after the game he was like Ben Crenshaw before the last day of the Ryder Cup. He called the win and he backed it up with his performance."

Defenseman Glen Wesley tied it with 7:27 left with a slap shot that hit goalie Dominic Roussel near the throat and fell in behind him. Andrei Kovalenko began the rally, scoring late in the second period.

The Hurricanes were coming off a season-high seven-goal game Thursday night in Boston. The four-goal rally was the first for the former Hartford Whalers franchise since a 5-5 tie against Montreal on March 19, 1980.

"After playing last night we showed a lot of guts," said Carolina's Gary Roberts.

The Mighty Ducks led 4-0 after Marty McInnis, Jim McKenzie and Jeff Nielsen scored in a 6½-minute span of the second period, but the Hurricanes scored three goals in the first 12½ minutes of the third in running up a season-high 43 shots.

Anaheim coach Craig Hartsburg was not happy with his team.

"It is ridiculous what happened," Hartsburg said. "Guys stopped working. Some guys didn't. Some guys stuck with it, but a lot of guys we count heavily on just shut it down.

"If you don't want to work in this league you don't belong in this league, I don't care how talented you are. Ten minutes after the game they've got the answers, they've got the answers before the game, but during the game they don't have the answers."

Teemu Selanne, in a mini slump with one goal and one assist in his last eight games, scored his 16th of the season from in close after taking a centering pass from Paul Kariya to put the Mighty Ducks up 1-0 late in the first.

Then McInnis started Anaheim's second-period outburst with a short-handed goal 2:10 into the period, scoring on a one-timer off a feed from Cullen.

McKenzie made it 3-0 3½ minutes later off a rebound, sending Carolina goalie Arturs Irbe to the bench in favor of backup Eric Fichaud.

But less then two minutes after entering the game, Fichaud allowed Nielsen's power-play goal. It was the first power-play goal for the Mighty Ducks in six games, and only the third allowed by the Hurricanes in 53 chances at home.

Anaheim, which was 14-0-0 this season when leading after two periods, fell to 0-4-1 in its last five games.