As the ultimate horn sounded on Saturday afternoon (Nov. 30) in Dawn, Florida, the Carolina Hurricanes’ November stretch of video games was over. Mercifully, it was wanted for the Hurricanes, as the 2 post-Thanksgiving video games didn’t go their manner. After dropping on Friday, Nov. 29, 6-3 in Raleigh, they went all the way down to South Florida and misplaced 6-0 in a recreation that noticed the Panthers dominate from begin to end.
Recreation Recap
After the primary 20 minutes, there was quite a bit to be hopeful about because the Hurricanes outshot the Panthers 11-9 within the first interval and the rating was 0-0. As the remainder of the sport went on, it was all on the house aspect as they went and outshot the guests 26-9 within the ultimate 40 minutes. The Panthers had two objectives within the second interval from Aaron Ekblad and Mackie Samoskevich. Samoskevich’s aim was on the ability play, the primary of three man-advantage markers within the recreation. Ekblad’s aim got here after their first aim was taken away for an offside, however that one did rely regardless of the referees searching for potential goaltender interference.
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Regardless of being down 2-0 after 40 minutes, there was nonetheless time left for the Hurricanes to climb again into the sport. They’d comebacks earlier within the week towards the Dallas Stars and the New York Rangers. There needed to be some hope of extra magic from the crew towards the defending Stanley Cup champions.
Sadly, that was not the case, because it solely obtained worse for Rod Brind’Amour’s crew.
The third interval noticed 4 Panthers objectives, two on the ability play from Aleksander Barkov and Evan Rodriguez. They went 3-for-6 on the ability play towards a Hurricanes penalty kill unit that was prime 10 within the NHL going into the sport. Their different two objectives got here from Sam Bennett and Adam Boqvist, the primary of the season for the latter. The previous scored his aim after getting out of the penalty field. He was in there for an interference penalty after shouldering Jalen Chatfield into netminder Spencer Martin. The guests had two pictures within the ultimate interval in comparison with the 4 objectives from the house crew.
In two video games, Florida outscored Carolina 12-3 in six durations.
The subsequent recreation for the Hurricanes (16-7-1) is on Tuesday, Dec. 3, vs the Seattle Kraken at house. The Panthers’ subsequent recreation is on Dec. 3 vs the Pittsburgh Penguins on the street.
