The Carolina Hurricanes come into tonight’s game less than 24 hours after handing the Detroit Red Wings a heavy loss. The confidence in this team was extremely high. There was nothing they couldn’t do. They were just a single win away from completing a perfect home stand. Eight out of the Eight possible points at home.
All they had to do was take care of a New Jersey Devils team that has struggled to generate offense and was averaging over 4 GA per game. Tack on the fact that they have only won two games all season and the fact that they were just humiliated at home by the Flyers (who incidentally are the next matchup) this felt like an easy, no effort game to win.