{"id":660725,"date":"2026-05-23T16:23:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T16:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/660725\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T16:23:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T16:23:13","slug":"hurricanes-seek-return-to-how-we-play-in-game-2-even-eastern-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/660725\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricanes seek return to ‘how we play’ in Game 2, even Eastern Final"},"content":{"rendered":"

The difference between the first and second periods were noticeable; the Hurricanes were pushing the pace, were challenging Canadiens goalie Jakub Dobes<\/a>\u00a0and had Montreal on its heels.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re a fast team,” Montreal forward Josh Anderson<\/a> said. “There\u2019s no secret about that. Coming in last night, we knew they were going to be quick. They haven\u2019t played in a while. We wanted to step on them right away, but we expect for them to play like they did in the second period.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re a really good hockey team over there. Obviously going to look at some video, and we\u2019re going to have to be a lot sharper than we were last night because we\u2019re going to see a different team tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carolina\u2019s first response Friday was to regroup; that did not include practicing. The Hurricanes practiced plenty between May 9, when they finished their second-round series against the Flyers, and Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s not what we need,” Carolina coach Rod Brind’Amour said. “Today we did practice, you just didn\u2019t see it. So there are two different ways to practice. There was no point in going on the ice today. That\u2019s not what we need.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Hurricanes don\u2019t need to adjust, either; it’s not about that at this point. It\u2019s one game, one period really, that\u2019s gone wrong in the past nine games they\u2019ve played.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was definitely not our best effort,” Carolina defenseman Sean Walker<\/a>\u00a0said. “Again, lots of the execution of what we want to be doing is going to limit a lot of stuff they want to do. We just get back to our game, a lot of stuff you saw in the first two rounds, we\u2019ll be a lot more successful.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Hurricanes’ history in the conference final is not good; this is the fifth time they have reached this point of the postseason since winning the Stanley Cup in 2006. The previous four were losses, including last season.<\/p>\n

But they\u2019re confident Game 1 was an anomaly of their postseason. They won\u2019t forget it. They\u2019ll just respond to it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe whole flush-it thing in the playoffs is pretty hard,” Hall said. “I think it\u2019s that way for a reason. We need to understand what happened yesterday and why it happened. This morning we went over a lot of stuff about that. When we wake up tomorrow it\u2019s about Game 2. But today it\u2019s still about realizing what happened and correcting that.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s nothing wrong with it. You can still do that and have a positive mindset and smile and laugh with your friends at the rink, but understand tomorrow has to be a different story.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The difference between the first and second periods were noticeable; the Hurricanes were pushing the pace, were challenging…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-660725","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\/660725","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=660725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}