But, again, they came up with no answer for the Rangers and Vezina-favorite Igor Shesterkin. Thirteen seconds later, the Hurricanes were handed another opportunity on the power play.
The Rangers scored again on a deflection from a wide-open Chris Kreider on that man advantage. Then, as he shuffled his way to the bench, the Canes got whistled for too many men on the ice. Less than two minutes later, Jacob Trouba floored Carolina rookie Seth Jarvis with an open-ice hit that removed Jarvis from the game. They came up empty, not even flirting with finding the back of the net across two minutes. Some of the very same things that plagued them in recent years plagued them yet again.įor the last time this season, let’s talk about last night.Īfter giving up an early power-play goal to the Rangers, the Hurricanes had an opportunity to put their foot down and regain control of the game with their own power-play at the 4:18 mark of the first period. Another year of experience for a young core of players didn’t bear fruit. Moves that were touted as pushing the team forward and making them better for these situations last offseason proved to be all for not. This team had its sights set on the Stanley Cup, and they stood a very good chance of accomplishing that goal based on what we saw during that regular season.ĭespite their expectations being higher, the heights they reached - or lack thereof - were precisely the same as last season. Unlike in recent seasons, these Hurricanes weren’t just happy to be there - or at least they shouldn’t have been. As a result, they saw their season end, on home ice, at the hands of a team that they beat out for the Metropolitan Division crown. When they reaped the benefits of all that work in Monday night’s game seven, they turned in one of the biggest no-shows in the Rod Brind’Amour head-coaching era. Teams with Stanley Cup aspirations work for 82 regular-season games to earn the right to home-ice advantage in the postseason.
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