After owning a top-three ranked penalty-killing unit for the vast majority of 2016-17, the Carolina Hurricanes are in a pickle. Their special teams units were extremely lackluster at the start of the year before starting to find their footing, but they remain the League’s third-worst team in both shorthanded and man-advantage situations.
Our own Brett Finger already dissected the Canes’ PP struggles in a three-part series here, here and here (and it’s quite good), so I’ll take a brief glimpse into the PK woes.
The Canes’ special teams had been worrying before, but hadn’t exactly cost them a game directly until Thursday night.