1. Quality and Quantity
There’s no real secret to the Carolina Hurricanes’ game – dump pucks in, forecheck like honeybadgers on cocaine, shoot from anywhere. It’s all right there. It’s a high-pressure approach designed to force turnovers and capitalize on mistakes, and it led to the highest rate of five-on-five shot attempts in the League over the course of the regular season (and last season, and the season before that).
By sheer volume, that shot rate translates to high expected goal rates (though actual goal rates have tended to lag behind a bit…more on that in a bit).