by Matt Karash | Jan 23, 2019 | The Drive Home
So here is a late night analogy for the difference between the Hurricanes and the opponent in match ups against top teams in the league. The Hurricanes attack and quite often attack more than the opponent, But the Hurricanes are like birds pecking and pecking and...
by Matt Karash | Jan 21, 2019 | The Drive Home
After mostly sleeping through consecutive games earlier in the week, the Hurricanes awoke in a big way on Sunday night in Edmonton. The Canes scored first when Nino Niederreiter scored his first as a Hurricane on a Sebastian Aho pass off the rush on the first shift of...
by Matt Karash | Jan 19, 2019 | The Drive Home
After reeling off seven wins in eight tries to start January, the Hurricanes had reversed course after an abysmal December. The team was still on the outside looking in, but the gap up to the playoff cut line had shrunk significantly. Then on Tuesday against the...
by Matt Karash | Jan 16, 2019 | The Drive Home
After winning seven out of eight and playing pretty well even in the loss, the Hurricanes laid an egg for the first time in 2019. The Canes were not going to just run through the rest of the schedule with nearly perfect play, so a game like Tuesday’s was...
by Matt Karash | Jan 13, 2019 | The Drive Home
Bigger picture No doubt the details of the Hurricanes 6-3 win over the #1 team in the Western Conference, but before jumping to those details below, I wanted to first point out two more subtle but significant things about the Canes win on Sunday and the recent trend...
by Matt Karash | Jan 11, 2019 | The Drive Home
After a tough loss late in the game the night before, one might have wondered how the Hurricanes would react with a quick turnaround for a game the next night. While the first period was not the best that the team has played of late, the team did not seem to suffer...
