Andersen leads the playoffs with a .925 save percentage on high-danger shots on goal, stopping 49 of 53, according to NHL EDGE stats. He gave up just one goal on 24 high-danger shots (.958 save percentage) in the second round.<\/p>\n
“We’re getting huge performances,” Hurricanes coach Rod Brind’Amour said after sweeping the Flyers, “and Andersen has been terrific for us.”<\/p>\n
Carolina’s elder statesman, 37-year-old captain Jordan Staal<\/a>, still leads by example.<\/p>\n “Jordan does everything for this team,” Brind’Amour after Staal had a power-play goal and an assist in 15:26 of a 4-1 victory in Game 3.<\/p>\n Age also was an asset for the Avalanche during the 2001 playoffs, when 40-year-old defenseman Ray Bourque<\/a>\u00a0averaged 28:32 of ice time in 21 games and 26:13 in a 3-1 win against the New Jersey Devils in Game 7 of the Final that won the future Hockey Hall of Famer his first Stanley Cup championship in the finale of a 22-season NHL career. Colorado’s current “old man,” Brent Burns<\/a>, is 41 and has played 1,579 NHL games and has yet to win the Cup. Burns averaged 18:12 per game in a four-game sweep of the Los Angeles Kings in the first round.\u00a0<\/p>\n When the Maple Leafs won their last Cup title in 1967, they Sawchuk, then 37, in Game 6 at Maple Leaf Gardens. Leading by a goal with less than a minute to go in the third period and the face-off deep in the Toronto zone, Imlach went against all odds and sent an all-veteran lineup out for the draw: Red Kelly<\/a>, George Armstrong<\/a>,\u00a0Allan Stanley<\/a>, Tim Horton<\/a> and Bob Pulford<\/a>.<\/p>\n Armstrong scored into an empty net at 19:13.<\/p>\n “We needed to keep those Montreal guys from scoring,” Imlach said. “Where better to turn than to my old guard? They won the draw and we won another Cup. It capped the most satisfying Stanley Cup I ever won.”<\/p>\n After eight seasons as Hurricanes coach, Brind’Amour has been given more say and many observers believe that it shows in the results, which has given Carolia hope for its first NHL championship since 2006.<\/p>\n “Rod is so good with his players that he could coach a fire hydrant,” Renney said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andersen leads the playoffs with a .925 save percentage on high-danger shots on goal, stopping 49 of 53,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-667593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}