{"id":715363,"date":"2026-06-04T19:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T19:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/715363\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T19:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T19:24:12","slug":"hurricanes-hopeful-of-bounce-back-in-game-2-of-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/715363\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricanes ‘hopeful’ of bounce back in Game 2 of Cup Final"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brind’Amour admitted he needs to get “some guys going,” but is not ready to make changes to his lines or defense pairings after one loss.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“You always think about it, but we really didn’t have the need to do it,” the coach said. “We’ve got to get some guys going, maybe we need to flip things, but I like our lines. The results have been there, so I’m not going to overreact on really one bad period of hockey here. We’ve got to let it materialize a little more, then obviously you’re making adjustments if you have to.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Though it’s not necessarily a must-win for the Hurricanes, the numbers say a loss would stack to odds heavily against them. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Teams that fall behind 2-0 in a best-of-7 Final own an all-time record of 5-50 in the series, including 2-10 when dropping the first two games at home.<\/p>\n

Forward Mark Jankowski<\/a>\u00a0said the key for Carolina is a combination of calming down when dealing with Vegas’ in-your-face pressure, and making the right play.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“It’s a little bit of both. Watching (Game 1) back, obviously our decisions and our reads weren’t great,” he said. “We blew some coverage, gave them some chances, some open looks. So, we’ve got some things we need to clean up, we see it and so we’ll be better.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Of course, it’s easier said than done against a Golden Knights team that has won seven straight in the postseason and plays a style similar to Carolina.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hurricanes forward William Carrier<\/a> knows all about Vegas, having played for the Golden Knights when they won the Stanley Cup in 2023. \u00a0He signed with Carolina as a free agent before the 2024-25 season and said both teams in the Final remind him of the 2023 Cup champs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“They are kind of built the same way. We’re kind of built the same way, too,” Carrier said. “We’ve got some players that know their roles. It’s the same on both sides. Both groups are mature. They are definitely built for the playoffs.”<\/p>\n

So are the Hurricanes. They are also used to moving on from losses, something they need to do for Game 2. \u00a0<\/p>\n

“I think you have to watch it back and address it and understand what went wrong and kind of turn the page and be ready to go,” forward Eric Robinson said. “Once today hits, it’s a new day, it’s a new game. You can’t think about the other game, let alone another series or the playoffs in general.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brind’Amour admitted he needs to get “some guys going,” but is not ready to make changes to his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-715363","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\/715363","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=715363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}