As has been the case many times throughout the course of the Carolina Hurricanes’ current nine-year playoff drought, the team was on the precipice of moving into a playoff spot, and ran into the force field that seems to keep them out of the picture.
The Canes had moved themselves into prime positioning by rattling off three straight wins over non-playoff opponents from the weakling Atlantic division, and another one came into Raleigh tonight in the Detroit Red Wings.
After blanking Montreal last night, the Hurricanes moved into a tie with the Philadelphia Flyers for the second and final wild card spot in the Eastern conference.