This is the way the Carolina Hurricanes envisioned it working between the pipes:
Goalie Cam Ward playing well one game, Scott Darling the next.
General manager Ron Francis brought in Darling to be the Canes’ No. 1 goalie this season and Ward, in preseason, said he could accept a lesser role after being Carolina’s franchise goalie since the Stanley Cup run in 2006. Such was the plan.
But 32 games into the season, the scales appears to be closer to level, the Canes perhaps closer to having no clearcut No. 1.