From the 3 Keys to Victory for last night’s game, the Carolina Hurricanes seemed to put a check-mark on having an offensively-active defense and using their momentum from their previous five games as confidence.
However, the Carolina Hurricanes did not recover from their special teams hangover. They did kill off three Columbus man-advantages, but their own three man-advantages saw nothing happen. Just because Columbus doesn’t have a powerplay goal doesn’t mean their powerplay was bad, they actually had quite a bit of steam with movement and tape-to-tape passing that saw good chances, the Hurricanes didn’t see too much zone time at all in their powerplays.