NEW YORK — The Stanley Cup playoffs are a war of attrition, but even by those standards, the Carolina Hurricanes are in somewhat uncharted territory.
First it was Calvin de Haan, going down with a shoulder injury after an awkward fall from a Jake Guentzel check that lingered into the postseason. Then, Andrei Svechnikov and Micheal Ferland both joined the ranks of the walking wounded in Game 3 of the first round, Svechnikov from the infamous fight with Alex Ovechkin and Ferland with an upper body injury from a check along the boards.