About Last Night: Grand Theft Antti

Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty ImagesIf the Carolina Hurricanes had left Detroit with zero points gained in the standings, it really wouldn’t have been a shock with the way the team played.

Instead, Antti Raanta put together a spectacular 37-save performance to claw a point out for his team.

It was a rare instance of Carolina being outworked, with only really a few players having strong games, but what seemed fairly common in the game was the defensive lapses.

The turnovers and blown coverages leading to odd-man rushes and breakaways.

Just simple mistakes that appear at much too high a frequency.

But the Canes aren’t going to have it every night and a seven-game point streak is nothing to scoff…