{"id":530726,"date":"2026-03-30T07:57:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T07:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/530726\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T07:57:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T07:57:26","slug":"analyzing-hurricanes-tough-loss-to-canadiens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/530726\/","title":{"rendered":"Analyzing Hurricanes Tough Loss to Canadiens"},"content":{"rendered":"

The third and final game against the Montreal Canadiens this season ended the same way as the previous two did for the Carolina Hurricanes: with a loss.<\/p>\n

Just one day removed from their previous game in Lenovo Center<\/a>, the Hurricanes came out of the gates swinging, establishing and sustaining pressure without giving the Canadiens an inch. It wasn\u2019t until there were just over eight minutes left in the first period that the Hurricanes even allowed a shot on goal from the Canadiens.<\/p>\n

Before the halfway mark had been reached in the first period, Andrei Svechnikov got a goal on the power play<\/a> with helpers from linemates Seth Jarvis and Sebastian Aho, which sent Carolina to the locker room up one to nothing in the first intermission.<\/p>\n

However, in the second period, the game slowly began to unravel.<\/p>\n

After scooping up the rebound of a missed shot from Seth Jarvis, Lane Hutson delivered a stretch pass to Cole Caufield, who had flown the zone, to which he passed it back to Nick Suzuki, who was in tow for the equalizer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ten minutes later, the same trio struck again<\/a> as Hutson found the tape of Suzuki, who then got it to Caufield for the go-ahead goal.<\/p>\n

In the final 15 seconds of the frame, Eric Robinson was caught red-handed after tripping Noah Dobson, and once again, Suzuki found the back of the net<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The third period was scoreless for both teams.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, Carolina continued to sustain pressure, with 14 shots going wide, over the bar, off the post, and otherwise missed, while 15 shots were blocked by Montreal.<\/p>\n

Of the 36 attempted shots in the frame, only eight made it to netminder Jakub Dobes in the final frame.<\/p>\n

Hurricanes Loss Presented to You by the Ruthless Nature of the Atlantic Division<\/p>\n

Throughout the game, the Hurricanes had a season high 100 shot attempts, while the Canadiens out-ate every team in the NHL this season with 32 blocked shots recorded in a single game.<\/p>\n

A case could be made that the Hurricanes\u2019 heightened aggression in the final half of the game contributed to a lack of precision in generating high-quality chances, but honestly, the Canadiens\u2019 power of desperation \u2013 something statistically intangible \u2013 could not be understated.<\/p>\n

Dobes played exceptionally well, but the full team effort from the team in front of him throughout the game \u2013 and their fight to remain in the top three of a merciless Atlantic Division \u2013 was something that any team favorable in the standings would struggle immensely to overcome.<\/p>\n

With the Hurricanes beating out the Canadiens 35-18 in shots, 46-25 in scoring chances, and 100-42 in shot attempts, the Canadiens took the only stat that mattered in their 3-1 win.<\/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":"The third and final game against the Montreal Canadiens this season ended the same way as the previous…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5107],"tags":[1742,194,29,5176,5,195,4,1174],"class_list":{"0":"post-530726","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-sebastian-aho"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116317064909935031","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530726","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=530726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}