Hurricanes vs. Canadiens: Eastern Conference Final, Game 2 – Lines, Notes, Goalies, and How to Watch
IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect After dropping Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Final, the Carolina Hurricanes will be back on the grind Saturday night as they welcome the Montreal Canadiens back into Lenovo Center for Game 2. The game is scheduled for 7:00 PM EDT. The series opener against the Canadiens was far from grand for the Hurricanes, who fell in a 6-2 game, with the game-winning goal having come just 8:11 into the first period.
Ultimately, the Hurricanes lacked their hard-nosed brand of hockey throughout much of the contest. “You don’t want to use excuses, but that was a long break,” second-line winger Taylor Hall said Friday to the media. “I think, you know, it’s a lot longer than that first break we had.
But, you know, one team looked like an Eastern Conference final team, and the other didn’t. “So, we know we have a lot more to give, and you just don’t want to let things slide. And, you know, I think whether we win or lose tomorrow, we have to play our game and our identity and let that come through for 60 minutes, and let the cards fall where they do.
But that wasn’t the game that we were proud of – the game that we know and know how to play. So I think that’s our focus tomorrow. ” One of the big themes following Game 1 was to toss the game into the rearview and keep moving.
Hall also touched on that subject, describing his idea of flushing a rough game. “Yeah, the whole ‘flush it’ thing in the playoffs is pretty hard, and I think it’s that way for a reason. We need to understand what happened yesterday, and why it happened…This morning, we went over a lot of stuff about that.
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