{"id":556240,"date":"2026-04-19T19:42:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T19:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/556240\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T19:42:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T19:42:36","slug":"hurricanes-news-frederik-andersens-mind-blowing-take-from-g1-vs-senators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/556240\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricanes news: Frederik Andersen’s ‘mind-blowing’ take from G1 vs. Senators"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Carolina Hurricanes beat the Ottawa Senators 2-0<\/a> in the first game of the Stanley Cup Playoffs<\/a>. The Canes are in the playoffs for the eighth consecutive season and are looking for their sixth straight first-round win. Hurricanes goalie Frederik Andersen spoke about how fired up the Raleigh fans were for<\/a> Game 1.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s pretty mind-blowing how loud it gets and how fun it is to play here,\u201d Andersen said, per Aaron Beard of the Associated Press.<\/p>\n

Andersen has himself to thank for the excitement of the Hurricanes crowd. He put up a 22-save shutout, earning the first star of the game. Andersen’s numbers in the Stanley Cup Playoffs are strong, with 47 wins in 86 starts and a 2.37 goals-against average, but Carolina has not been able to get over the hump in recent years.<\/p>\n

It was a surprise to many that Andersen got the Game 1 start for the Hurricanes. It was, after all, Brandon Bussi who led the team with 39 appearances and 31 wins<\/a> in the regular season. But coach Rod Brind’Amour went with the veteran Andersen, who proved to be the right choice.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course you\u2019re looking for goalies to make saves at the right time, and that\u2019s the right time,\u201d Brind\u2019Amour said, per Beard. \u201cAnd that\u2019s what he did tonight. Like, I don\u2019t even know how you explain it. That was exactly the game, right there. And he was up for the challenge tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Hurricanes host the Senators again in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs on Monday night at 7:30 Eastern. Andersen may be leaned on again, but no one should be surprised if Bussi is back in the net. Carolina may finally have a goaltending advantage in the playoffs, with Igor Shesterkin and Ilya Sorokin both watching from home. Brind’Amour can use that to his advantage, and did so on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The Carolina Hurricanes beat the Ottawa Senators 2-0 in the first game of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. The Canes are in the playoffs for the eighth consecutive season and are looking for their sixth straight first-round win. Hurricanes goalie Frederik Andersen spoke about how fired up the Raleigh fans were for Game 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Carolina Hurricanes beat the Ottawa Senators 2-0 in the first game of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5107],"tags":[194,29,5176,5,195,4,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-556240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-hurricanes","8":"tag-carolina","9":"tag-carolina-hurricanes","10":"tag-carolinahurricanes","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-hurricanes","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-stanley-cup-playoffs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116433086590126620","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556240","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=556240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}