This is the same, essential “Hurricanes hockey” we’ve been treated to in the Rod Brind’Amour era: Suppress your opponents’ shots, take plenty of your own shots, and show the heck up on the penalty kill.<\/p>\n
Many have wondered, after years of stability and ultimate ECF disappointment, whether this was a viable game plan. It might have taken eight years to get here, but it looks like the Hurricanes have figured out how to optimize this system.<\/p>\n
It felt like no one was talking about this, but the Hurricanes were quietly the deepest offensive team in the league this regular season. They were the only team to boast seven 20+ goal-scorers. This came after years of subtle roster tweaking, depth additions, and Andrei Svechnikov’s ACL recovery. <\/p>\n
Homegrown Seth Jarvis has built the experience, resume, and scoring flair to be considered a star, and that took a couple of years. <\/p>\n
As for the goaltending, the Canes have hung on to consistent-but-injury-prone Freddie Andersen. They shored up the goaltending depth around him, and they’ve understood that his regular-season load needn’t be too heavy. He came into this postseason with fresh legs after a light second half, and it has paid off.<\/p>\n
The Hurricanes didn’t change their game plan — they’ve optimized it year after year. We’ve called them stubborn, we’ve watched them “dry up,” but to their credit, they’ve kept to their “allow few shots, fire plenty of shots, kill off everything” plan with subtle improvements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is the same, essential “Hurricanes hockey” we’ve been treated to in the Rod Brind’Amour era: Suppress your…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-634584","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\/634584","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=634584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}