The Carolina Hurricanes battled for 60 minutes in Columbus Monday night, but surrendered a late goal and dropped the back half of a back to back 3-2 against the Blue Jackets.
The Canes learned shortly before the faceoff that they’d be playing a man down, as Vincent Trocheck was out with a lower-body injury, and, due to cap issues, the team could not call a player up without putting an injured player on long-term injured reserve.
Despite that, the Canes played well, and were the victims of a couple bad bounces. Nino Niederreiter and Brock McGinn scored for Carolina.