The Carolina Hurricanes have long suffered from an overpassing disease, an affliction that has cost them time and again. It happened yet again on Sunday night, as the Canes outshot the Winnipeg Jets 35-23 but couldn’t make it translate on the scoreboard in a 3-2 loss to the Jets that dropped the Canes out of a playoff spot.
Despite carrying play in the first few minutes of the game, putting three shots on Jets goalie Connor Hellebuyck before Winnipeg took one of their own, it was the visitors who struck first. Patrik Laine scored his first of two on the evening as Nikolaj Ehlers fed him from behind the net and the Finn fired off a one-timer that beat Cam Ward through the five-hole before the goalie knew it was past him.