{"id":426925,"date":"2026-01-25T06:31:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T06:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/426925\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T06:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T06:31:13","slug":"hurricanes-survived-goaltending-thrived-against-senators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/426925\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricanes Survived; Goaltending Thrived Against Senators"},"content":{"rendered":"

On a cold January night, Taylor Hall got the call that he had been traded from the Chicago Blackhawks to a Stanley Cup contender down south. Exactly one year later, on an even colder January night, he had two very different types of highlight moments.<\/p>\n

Saturday night, the Carolina Hurricanes (32-15-5) won 4-1 in a tough match against the Ottawa Senators (23-21-7). Despite the score, Saturday was not a masterclass on how to win at hockey. The Hurricanes, for all intents and purposes, squeezed a fresh victory out of a sour lemon. A rarity, they were outshot by the Senators, who nearly doubled them 36-19.<\/p>\n

Carolina had an explosion of scoring in the early frame as the first, second, and fourth lines found the twine thanks to William Carrier, Seth Jarvis, and Hall.<\/p>\n

A fourth goal came for Carolina when Andrei Svechnikov potted it during a two-man advantage in the second period, but the game was otherwise flat for the Hurricanes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey carried play well, and they played hard, they finished checks all night, they made it hard on us,\u201d Hall said<\/a> after the game. \u201cAnd, you know, I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s the schedule or whatever, but we didn\u2019t have that energy to match it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Hurricanes faced 34 hits in the game. It was the most they\u2019d been dealt this season since November 26th\u2019s loss to the New York Rangers.<\/p>\n

Hall was certainly noticed by referee Jon McIsaac after receiving one of those hits.<\/p>\n

Understandably unhappy after a dangerous boarding from Dylan Cozens went without a whistle, Hall shared a few choice words with the referee. He was subsequently given his first game misconduct since March 2021.<\/p>\n

Look For the Bright Spots!<\/p>\n

Two great positives of the game, aside from the win, were special teams and goaltending. The Hurricanes went four-for-four on the penalty kill (which they\u2019ve struggled with this season) and one-for-four on the power play. Meanwhile, netminder Brandon Bussi made 35 saves \u2013 the second most in his NHL career \u2013 which gave him a .972 save percentage on the night.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome nights, you need to get bailed out,\u201d Hall said. \u201cSome nights, you win games that, you know, maybe you shouldn\u2019t, but I feel like it all evens out in the end.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\tRachel Barkley is a beat writer covering the Carolina Hurricanes for Carolina Hockey Now on Sportsnaut. Painting stories with … More about Rachel Barkley<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On a cold January night, Taylor Hall got the call that he had been traded from the Chicago…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5107],"tags":[1742,194,29,5176,5,195,4,1110],"class_list":{"0":"post-426925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-hurricanes","8":"tag-andrei-svechnikov","9":"tag-carolina","10":"tag-carolina-hurricanes","11":"tag-carolinahurricanes","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-hurricanes","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-taylor-hall"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115954338953618066","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}