Cam Ward made his first return to PNC Arena with the Blackhawks on Monday night for a game in which both he and Scott Darling played very well against their former teams. Given the irony of that situation, I thought it would be a fitting week to assess the goaltending condition in Carolina and across the league as a whole.
The age old Canes narrative has been that the team severely lacks top end scoring and decent goaltending talent. As the rebuild has come to a head over the past few seasons and offensive depth has begun to take hold in Raleigh, the narrative has slowly shifted to something like this:
In their last 15 games, the Canes have been scored on at least three times all but twice (one of those times they lost).