Well it had to come sooner or later, as the Carolina Hurricanes dropped their first L of the season, a 6-4 loss to the Edmonton Oilers Thursday night at Rogers Place.
It was the same script as the first two games. A sleepy start, the first goal goes against, the team ramps it up in the second period and on, however, the act started to go against the prior scripts.
So even despite an Andrei Svechnikov hat trick — his first in the regular season — the effort just wasn’t enough to thwart a high-octane Oiler offense.