After the sloppy play of the past week, the Carolina Hurricanes needed a much stronger showing to prove to not only themselves, but to the fanbase, that they are still a capable team.
They needed to come out with a quick and hard response to start the game and, luckily, that was what they did against the Detroit Red Wings.
“The first period, that’s where we won the game,” said coach Rod Brind’Amour. “We came ready to play and kind of got the lead. It wasn’t great after that, but we didn’t have to be which is what’s good about coming ready to play because we won the game in the first period.