1. Shout Volume
They say that a team isn’t in trouble in a playoff series until it loses at home, so the Hurricanes aren’t in any trouble yet.
They also say that NHL teams that have opened best-of-seven series with a pair of home wins have won those series 88.9 percent of the time (241-30) (and that number jumps to 90.5 percent (531-56) if you expand the purview to other sports), so maybe the Hurricanes are actually in some trouble.
Then again, the Caps have an all-time series record of 4-5 (and a Game 3 record of 1-8) when leading a best-of-seven series two-games-to-none, so maybe the Hurricanes aren’t in trouble after all.