{"id":622701,"date":"2026-05-04T10:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T10:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/622701\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T10:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T10:16:09","slug":"undefeated-hurricanes-still-chasing-perfect-game-in-stanley-cup-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/622701\/","title":{"rendered":"Undefeated Hurricanes still chasing \u2018perfect game’ in Stanley Cup Playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe PK was solid and 5-on-5 play, we didn\u2019t give them too much,\u201d Hurricanes captain Jordan Staal<\/a>\u00a0said. \u201cFreddie was great when he needed to be, and it’s a good start to the series.\u201d<\/p>\n

So much is going right for Carolina that defenseman Mike Reilly<\/a>\u00a0played his first game of the postseason and had two assists in place of Alexander Nikishin, who wasn\u2019t ready to return from a concussion he sustained in Game 4 against Ottawa, and remains questionable for Game 2.<\/p>\n

Still, the Hurricanes felt they were sloppy in some areas, even on defense.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don’t want to give up as many chances as we do,\u201d forward Jordan Martinook<\/a>\u00a0said. \u201cYou look at all the plays that maybe it’s getting a puck out here or a missed clear.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Hurricanes were able to get away with those misplays in Game 1, but they know that to go on a long run in the playoffs and, ultimately, win the Stanley Cup for the first time since 2006, they need to keep pushing themselves.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re striving for greatness,\u201d Martinook said. \u201cAnd when you are giving up a chance, you want to look at it and figure out how you can eliminate that. So, I think we’re no different than any other team. There’s things that we can clean up every game, and we’re going to do that and try and bring our best game every time we go on the ice.\u201d<\/p>\n

The most glaring facet of the Hurricanes\u2019 game that needs to improve is their power play, which was 0-for-4 Saturday with five shots on goal, but also four short-handed shots against. Carolina is just 2-for-19 (10.5 percent) with the man-advantage in the playoffs.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s got to score at some point,\u201d Brind\u2019Amour said. \u201cBut we did some good things.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brind\u2019Amour has a similar view of the Hurricanes top line of Andrei Svechnikov<\/a>, Sebastian Aho<\/a> and Seth Jarvis<\/a>, which has yet to produce a goal at 5-on-5 in the playoffs.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think there is another level that they\u2019re going to need to get to, for sure, but I think they’re doing other things that are helping us, too,\u201d Brind\u2019Amour said. \u201cObviously, your top guys have got to score at some point, get on the scoresheet, because they’re playing so many minutes. But I do like the intent of which they’re playing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Svechnikov picked up his first point of the postseason with an assist on Stankoven\u2019s second goal Saturday. Jarvis also got his third assist (and point) of the playoffs on that goal. His other two assists came on Aho\u2019s empty-net goals in Game 4 in Ottawa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe PK was solid and 5-on-5 play, we didn\u2019t give them too much,\u201d Hurricanes captain Jordan Staal\u00a0said. \u201cFreddie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-622701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}