Many factors come into play when analyzing a team’s performance during a pair of back-to-back games. Travel, goalies (since teams often play their backup in the second game), fatigue, and injuries all are defining factors that can and often do affect a team’s performance in the second game. Having already established that the Carolina Hurricanes perform poorly when coming off an extended break of three days or more, we thought we’d better check on how they do when the schedule is squeezed.
When analyzing the performance of the Carolina Hurricanes in these games there was a significant amount of data in the last two years to observe.