Why did Carolina’s power play flicker out?
Now that may be a hard question to answer and before we dive head first into it, I’d be remiss to not say that we are talking about hockey in a certain context.
That context being that hockey was being played in a bubble, 700 miles away, after a four-month hiatus, inside empty arenas and away from families. Were we to have expected perfect play? No, but we can still analyze the performances and look to reasons why, in a normal context, the Hurricanes’ power play — which had been successful in the regular season — may have failed to ignite.