Can the Hurricanes score enough goals to win the Stanley Cup?

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RALEIGH, N.C. -- The Carolina Hurricanes swear they have enough offense on their team to reach the Stanley Cup Final.

"Easily," winger Andrei Svechnikov said. "I think we got lots of offense. We got lots of the skill. The greatest thing is that we got the system as well."

They swear the skeptics are wrong about their offensive challenges. Wrong about a team that has constantly seen its goal-scoring drop under head coach Rod Brind'Amour the later it gets in the postseason. Wrong about a team perpetually seen as the one that can't score a critical goal to win a tight playoff series.

Wrong about a team that was limited to one goal in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals…