It isn’t always about how you start that’s important, it’s about how you finish.
But if you’re the the Carolina Hurricanes, you have to be pretty happy with how you started and finished Saturday night’s game against the New York Islanders.
Not often will a team be up 2-0 less than four minutes in, but the Hurricanes got off to a hot start thanks in large part to the hard work of the Jordan Staal line.
It was the same formula that it’s always been for them. Go to work down low, cycle the puck up top, get traffic in front and repeat.