The Carolina Hurricanes’ seven-game win streak and 10-game point streak came to an end on Saturday against the New York Rangers. The loss coming after a lengthy break against a team that had a few games to settle in wasn’t entirely surprising though. The Canes were able to make sure the bad game didn’t get out of hand though by bouncing back and beating the Washington Capitals on Tuesday.
The game against the Capitals still looked harder than it should have with the Caps missing Alexander Ovechkin. The Canes narrowly avoided having to go to overtime multiple times in large part due to late-game heroics from Frederick Andersen.