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WASHINGTON – The Carolina Hurricanes knew their first-round series would be coming to Raleigh on Monday. They were hoping to do it with a 3-2 lead and a chance to close the home series.
They will not have that chance.
The Washington Capitals took advantage of the openness of the Hurricanes during the initial showdown and explained that it was a 6-0 win that, from the Hurricane's point of view, was much easier than ever. Nicklas Backstrom scored the first two goals, the second game of this series that he scored twice, and the series continued its strange scenario: the team scored the first goal of each match – in all five cases local team – never giving up driving.
Good for hurricanes? Trevor van Riemsdyk was exceptional and Petr Mrazek, although suspended in the dry most of the night, was certainly far from the problem. The bad? Just about everything else.
Start with a Hurricane power game that did not work nearly all night. At one point, the largest unit of the Canes remained almost a minute without firing. Once the second unit came on the ice, there were two shots in five seconds.
Continue with the wounded by winning two more members. Greg McKegg was nudged by Tom Wilson in the first period, sending him to the locker room. Calvin de Haan took a high stick from Evgeny Kuznetsov and did the same. Both players returned to the game, but with the Hurricanes already fallen as Andrei Svechnikov, Micheal Ferland and Jordan Martinook, they could have afforded nothing more.
And continue in this way with a penalty that recalls the horror show of the special teams of the first match. The Capitals had a three-to-four advantage and at no time were the Hurricanes on the same page when they were penalized. Backstrom opened the scoring and Tom Wilson ended a good pass to score the game at 4-0 in the third period, after Sebastian Aho took a penalty kick in the last minute of the game. second.
Midway through the third period, the Capitals were 5-0 after Dougie Hamilton hit Nic Dowd on a breakaway and the center of the fourth line of Caps converted the shot on goal. This is Dowd's first career goal and the second in the 2019 series.
A minute later, Lucas Wallmark grabbed Dmitry Orlov's jersey with Brock McGinn to part with the defense and part with the defense. Alex Ovechkin took a 6-0 power play every two seconds on the power play, and the Hurricanes still have to take another ten minutes.
The closest of the Hurricanes is on a quarter-second period when they owned the puck for more than a minute in the offensive zone, but Braden Holtby stoned Warren Foegele and then Sebastian Aho in a sequence. But that's about all the chances of scoring grade A were gone for the Hurricanes, 16 to 6 times better in very dangerous areas, according to Natural Stat Trick. At the end of the night, the Capital One Arena crowd had started a "T.J. Oshie "singing, in honor of the injured winger in Match 4.
It was a miserable end-to-end night, which the Hurricanes would like to forget, and now they will face a home elimination on Monday night.
They said it
Rod Brind'Amour:
The first couple [PKs]In fact, I did not think they were so bad. We somehow got some bad bounces. But yes, the special teams have been terrible. All our game was terrible. It was just a bit of the beginning of it. It was a 1-0 match, we have three power games in a row, we do not even perform anything. For me, that's where the turning point went. They just took it from there.
I did not see him coming. We have been bad from start to finish, really. It's hard to pick a guy who, I think, had a good game. At this time of the year, you need everyone, and for some reason, we only had one step back. The score is indicative of the match. We did not seem to be ready for any reason. I understand, we have some new guys in the lineup and there is something else, but we do not have the level of intensity that needs to be there at this time of year.
We keep it real. You say I'm positive – I'm positive because we do not have to be negative. Obviously tonight was a different story. Give them credit, they performed what they wanted to do, the maximum points. On every aspect of the game, we have been surpassed. It is difficult at this time of year to lose a big game, of course, but it would have been worse if we had been close and lost. It's literally hard to find a guy I said "good game" tonight. I think we would be better next.
[on Staal not being able to match up with Backstrom:] I do not know if that really mattered. We played sometimes where [McKegg] was against them and these were some of our best shifts. When you're not playing up, the game plan, everything goes out the window, no matter what you're trying to do. We will regroup. The good news is that we still have another day, another game to play, so grab the chips and try to improve yourself, and throw all you can for the next game.
It's clear, their best players were their best players, not ours. Yeah, we're understaffed – you hear that their team is understaffed, we're understaffed – I'm looking at it, the wound virus … you can see it tonight. We were missing some of these guys who make the difference in this area, but that's not an excuse. We did not beat anyone tonight.
Jordan Staal:
A little too much panic, not enough execution. We had three [power plays] in a row there that did not generate anything, so that definitely killed us a bit.
For a man, I think everyone in the room needed a little more fighting and a little more advantage in our game, and we did not have one tonight. And that showed. [The choppy game flow] it does not help, but regardless of the special teams, it's important, and they are all aligned at the beginning or the end, in general, you have to be strong, and they have been better in the special teams. evening.
Jaccob Slavin:
I think our start was good, we did not play our match as well. Obviously our power play was not good enough tonight, and that's kind of what hurt us in the second part. We had a lot of chances to tie the game and move forward, but we did not do it tonight. It just was not enough, the three periods.
Obviously, the home team got the [first] goal every game, and that draws the crowd, and creates some momentum. We just have to make sure we get that first number, that our crowd gets in right there, it's over or dead now.
I think the guys worked hard tonight, we just did not play our game. Our game is a game of failure before and they have been successful in breaking the puck against us. We can not get them into their zone and let our attackers go to work when we do not play too well. We did not have enough pucks and we did not play our game. Two turnovers obviously led to their transition and goals. We just need to make sure that we are better at getting the 200-foot puck.
Game notes
- Well, if there is a good side, I imagine that it did not end on a goal in overtime. But it was also serious that the Hurricanes were outclassed all year and that was decisive. I guess the pain is growing, but it's still hard to see where this team is coming this season.
- It will be lost in the big stench of this match, but Trevor van Riemsdyk was everywhere tonight. If the rest of the team played at its level, it is not possible for us to write this kind of recap now. Brind'Amour said he could not think of any player to whom he could say "good match", but if it was any one, it was the TVR, which was great from start to finish in 3:10 pm ice time.
- The Washington Post's Barry Svrluga tweeted after the match that two sources had confirmed that Oshie had a broken collarbone in Foegele's tube in Game Three. It is an injury of at least two months. It's made for the playoffs.
- I realize that no coach is going to blame injuries, but the list of healthy players is much shorter than that of the wounded who walk. Brett Pesce blocked a shot inside his ankle a few seconds before Wilson's power play goal. He finished the game, but he did not feel too hot. Foegele had a lick tonight. There was McKegg and de Haan, of course. Nobody has a good playoff lineup, but it's a bit much, even in terms of the playoffs.
- And here is the other thing. Players who are "in good health" do not give anything to the canes. The first two lines for the playoffs – Niederreiter-Aho-Williams; Ferland-Staal-Teravainen – combined goals for three goals and 11 points in five games. No team will win a playoff series with its top two teams displaying a score line like that.
- This is the kind of game in which, if it's the month of January, you roll it and move on to something else. The Canes do not have that luxury in the fifth game of a playoff series. Back to Monday at 7 o'clock at the PNC.
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