The Carolina Hurricanes Try to avenge the loss of overtime on Thursday night against the Columbus Blue Jackets with the second game of a four-game set tonight. Rod Brind’Amour talked about the fact that you can’t win 40 minutes in the NHL. The canes have been able to overcome this multiple times this year but have not been able to do so while understaffed with injuries.
The Canes want to leave Thursday night’s game and their strange travels behind them tonight. The exhausted canes still stand a great chance if they can play for a full 60 minutes. They showed how dominant they could be in their last game in a second period with two goals.
Population statistics
| category | Hurricanes | Blue jackets |
|---|---|---|
| category | Hurricanes | Blue jackets |
| recording | 20-7-2 | 12-12-7 |
| Goals / game | 3.28 | 2.65 |
| Goals against / game | 2.59 | 3.16 |
| Shots / game | 31.45 | 28.94 |
| Face Off Win% | 54.6% | 46.1% |
| Power play% (rank) | 31.9% (1.) | 15.8% (25.) |
| Kill Penalties% (Rank) | 82.0% (9.) | 72.6% (28.) |
| ES courses for% | 52.90% | 46.24% |
| IS PDO | 100.60 | 99.74 |
| PIM / game | 07:31 | 06:54 |
Goalkeeper # 1
| category | James Reimer | Joonas Korpisalo |
|---|---|---|
| category | James Reimer | Joonas Korpisalo |
| recording | 12-4-0 | 8-9-5 |
| To save % | 0.907 | .900 |
| ATM | 2.74 | 2.97 |
Goalkeeper # 2
| category | Alex Nedeljkovic | Elvis Merzlikins |
|---|---|---|
| category | Alex Nedeljkovic | Elvis Merzlikins |
| recording | 6-2-1 | 4-3-2 |
| To save % | .929 | .908 |
| ATM | 2.08 | 3.02 |
Game notes
- Dougie Hamilton has a 10-point streak, the second for a full lawyer in franchise history. Mark Howe is the only player with an extended streak at 11.
- Seth Jones’ extra-time winner was the ninth of his career. He has led all defenders with eight such goals since the start of the 16-17 season.
- In case you missed it, you can read all about the first game in the series Here.
- Sebastian Aho’s two-goal game was his 10th multi-point game of the season and his second multi-goal game of the season. He also has a three-game point streak and 11 points in his last nine games.
- Jordan Staal will play his 578th game with the Hurricanes. After tonight he will be one game behind Justin Faulk for the sixth most games in a canes sweater.
- The sticks have the highest percentage of overtime / shooting points since 2019 at 0.860 (18-0-7 record). That’s a long way from the dark ages.
