Last night was a tough pill to swallow for the Carolina Hurricanes. Dropping game one 4-2 to the defending Stanley Cup Champions is nothing to be ashamed of, but it is how the Canes lost that is the difficult part.
Time after time throughout the regular season the Hurricanes’ power play unit failed to deliver in clutch moments costing the team valuable points. There were also multiple games where the team took five to ten minutes off and that became the deciding time in the contest.
Both of those known issues from the regular season arose again last night resulting in the Capitals taking a 1-0 advantage in the series.