Wanting on the Carolina Hurricanes and Washington Capitals prematurely of their assembly Tuesday evening in Raleigh, N.C., there is a primary evaluation of their current play: The Hurricanes have discovered methods to get the job accomplished, whereas the Capitals haven’t.
The Hurricanes have gained 4 video games in a row following Sunday evening’s comeback from a two-goal deficit for a 5-4 highway victory towards the Toronto Maple Leafs.
“We have accomplished an amazing job of doing it by committee,” Carolina ahead Seth Jarvis mentioned. “All sides of our sport are actually going proper now. Even when guys do not get on the scoresheet, they’re making impacts in numerous methods. I believe that is what’s actually pushing our staff to win.”
The Capitals, who’ve been off since Saturday, have misplaced two in a row and 6 of their final seven (1-5-1). Tuesday’s sport will mark the third cease on a four-game highway journey after shedding to Pittsburgh and Tampa Bay.
“Standard tune,” Capitals coach Spencer Carbery mentioned. “I assumed we did some good issues (towards the Lightning).”
Good stretches throughout video games aren’t satisfying for the Capitals, who’ve entered the third interval tied in every of their final 4 losses. That has been a theme of kinds for a staff that has 14 third-period objectives in 15 video games this season, tied for twenty eighth within the league.
After Washington began the season 6-2-0, it has plummeted into second-to-last place within the Metropolitan Division, solely a single level up on Columbus.
“We have got to seek out methods to attain objectives and are available out on prime,” Washington defenseman John Carlson mentioned. “It does us no good to really feel such as you’re taking part in good in case you do not win. It does not matter.”
Issues will not get simpler towards a Carolina staff presently tied atop the division.
The Hurricanes needed to crank up the tempo in Toronto, with their 22 third-period photographs the franchise’s most in any interval on the highway in additional than two years.
“We’re clearly going to play our sport and let the chips fall the place they might,” Hurricanes ahead Taylor Corridor mentioned. “You’re taking some solace in that, that you just simply must do your job and work.”
Jarvis scored his team-high tenth purpose, turning into the second-fastest Hurricane in 15 years to achieve double-digit objectives in a season.
The Hurricanes, who did not maintain apply Monday after taking part in three video games in 4 nights, might be retooling their defensive pairings once more after rookie Charles Alexis Legault was taken to the hospital Sunday due to a minimize hand sustained in Toronto. They’re already with out three beginning defensemen from the start of the season, and Legault was one of many gamers who has been filling in.
“I’ve by no means seen something prefer it in all my days,” Brind’Amour mentioned. “You get accidents right here and there however to this diploma, it is simply the best way it has gone. What’s spectacular to me is simply how we have discovered methods to get it accomplished.”
The Capitals aren’t void of serious accidents. Ahead Pierre-Luc Dubois had surgical procedure for accidents to his belly and adductor muscle tissues, with the staff revealing on the finish of the weekend that he’s anticipated to overlook a minimum of three months of motion.
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