What if I told you (extremely 30-for-30 voice) that the Carolina Hurricanes are - what’s this? - winning hockey games despite playing something far from their best hockey?
The Canes have needed to put wins on the board no matter how they came, both to hold off a surging Canadiens squad and maintain their grip on the first wild card spot. And they did it this weekend, somehow. The power play is right back to being a waste of two perfectly good minutes. The team’s top center is not himself. Calvin de Haan can’t avoid high sticks, even with the presence of a full-face cage.