{"id":558187,"date":"2026-04-22T19:57:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/558187\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T19:57:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:57:21","slug":"hurricanes-have-to-do-better-at-face-offs-ahead-of-game-3-at-senators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/558187\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricanes &#8216;have to do better&#8217; at face-offs ahead of Game 3 at Senators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;They have a lot of righty-lefties on their strong side on each line, and they compete hard, they dive in,&#8221; Staal said. &#8220;They try to own the circle, and they make every single draw a contested one. Last game, we started tailing off, and that&#8217;s not good enough. Our group of centers have to be better going forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The draws can&#8217;t become a distraction.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rod has said don&#8217;t let face-offs and how you&#8217;re playing in the game affect each other,&#8221; Hurricanes center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/logan-stankoven-8482702\" title=\"Logan Stankoven\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Logan Stankoven<\/a>\u00a0said. &#8220;Obviously, you want to start with the puck every single time off the draw, but if not, I&#8217;ve got my wingers that are going to jump off the draw and hopefully put pressure on them and get the puck back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Hurricanes will need more offense for a better chance at a 3-0 series lead. The line of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/taylor-hall-8475791\" title=\"Taylor Hall\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Hall<\/a>,\u00a0Stankoven and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/jackson-blake-8482809\" title=\"Jackson Blake\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jackson Blake<\/a>\u00a0has nine of Carolina&#8217;s 14 points.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;ve got to get to your game,&#8221; Brind&#8217;Amour said. &#8220;If you play your best game, you have a chance. If you don&#8217;t, you don&#8217;t have a chance, so you better get to it somehow.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;They have a lot of righty-lefties on their strong side on each line, and they compete hard, they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5107],"tags":[194,29,5176,5,195,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-558187","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"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116450128331957741","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558187","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=558187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}