Game one is done and over our shoulders. We should look to game two today. However we would be remiss if we didn’t take a quick look behind us and take some lessons learned from our first playoff loss since Westlife was still a popular boy band.
In the first period alone, the Hurricanes saw a 3-0 deficit against the Capitals with tallies from Washington’s top line; Alexander Ovechkin and Nicklas Backstrom, two of the goals coming from the power-play. The Capitals went two-for-two on the power-play in the first period.
In the second period, the Hurricanes limited the Capitals to few high-chance opportunities and kept the Capitals to only five shots.