'Divisional Games Are Always Important': Rod Brind'Amour, Sebastian Aho, Nikolaj Ehlers, Frederik Andersen
Brind'Amour praises Ehlers' sharpness, Aho details power play execution, and Andersen's puck-handling proved crucial in a dominant win.
The Carolina Hurricanes finished out their season series with the Pittsburgh Penguins with a dominant 5-1 victory Sunday evening at PPG Paints Arena. The Canes scored three power play goals en route to the win and Frederik Andersen made 18 stops in the win. After the game, Hurricanes coach Rod Brind'Amour along with Sebastian Aho, Andersen and Nikolaj Ehlers spoke with the media in Pittsburgh.
Here's what they had to say: Rod Brind'Amour On the importance of the strong start : It allows you to not do anything different. When you get behind, the natural tendency sometimes is to try to do a little too much. So I think just getting ahead, and to keep adding, was huge.
On the power play : It went in the net. It's nothing that we haven't been doing, we just got some shots that found a way into the back of the net. That happens.
I think we've been due for that. As a power play group, we've been getting kind of one a night here and there, but now, all of a sudden, you're gonna have those nights and we haven't really had them all year. It was nice to see.
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