Hurricanes start slowly and have the cure in a late thrust against Oilers

March 1, 2025; Raleigh, North Carolina, USA; The goalkeeper of Edmonton Oilers Calvin Pickard (30) stops the value of Carolina Hurricanes in the right Mikko Rantane (96) in the third period in the Lenovo Center. (James Guillory-Mimagn pictures)

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This game had all of these Hollywood classics that they saw in their health lessons in middle school.

The Carolina Hurricanes, who remained the Edmonton Oilers with a goal, had their back against the wall when the clock began to reduce.

The team pushed after the equalization and looked as if they were about to break through, but a delayed criminal call against them, a goalkeeper imprisonment for Mikko Rantannen, seemed to ward off all hope for the comeback.

Suddenly the team of the team is on a short distance with less than a minute to play and with the chance to bind the game on its stick.

Dreams are made from this!

But this was not a Hollywood classic and reality is often much more disappointed.

Sebastian Aho jumped on this short track with the chance to tie the game and found no way to beat Calvin Pickard for the second time that night.

In order to insult the injury, every potential second chance was zero and invalid when the defender of Oilers, Mattias Ekholm, slid into his own network, which caused it to push from the berth and the game was blown dead.

Should it have been a delay in wild penalty? Probably, but that's how it works.

“He is a veteran, he knows what he's doing,” said Hurricanes trainer Rod Brind'amour after the game. “But you can't really call that, but it was obvious. He dived for no reason. It was a good deal because you know that the referee will not call it.”

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The Canes lost 3-1 against the Oilers in the Lenovo Center on Thursday evening and get another slow start.

“These were many of our games, especially lately,” said captain Jordan Staal. “Slow starts are really what it does not come with the not.

The team opened in the first period with 0 to 3 games and gave up a short goal when Adam Henrique was associated with a rebound in the air in the past Frederik Andersen, after positioning herself on Brent Burns (so let us count as -1).

Then add a turnover in the second period-> goal against Jalen Chatfield, who handed over the puck to Leon Draisaitl, who found Corey Perry on the back door-and so that the team stared on another multi-go deficit.

Recognition for you, you really drove the pace of things in the third period and frankly you deserved more than you.

“We always seem to do that,” said Brind'amour. “The start was obviously not a good thing. The urgency there, a shorty gave up, they just won't recover too often and that brought us this evening.”

The Canes broke out another Power Play goal for the second game in a row when Mikko Rantannen set a cross-Ice feed back door to AHO.

“I won the draw there, that was great, said Aho.

But that was the only time the team Pickard hit.

There were sufficient chances to add another balance: Jordan Martinook met the post after an Allone's view had an open cage at the front and distracted his shot from Brett Kulak, ranten had a close chance, Jesperi Kotkaniemi, Seth Jarvis and countless others could not shot other shot in Engen, etc., etc.

Oh, and of course, Aho's Shorthanded Bid.

“I have to bury that,” said Aho. “Under no circumstances. Had the game on my stick in a way or at least a chance to force OT. I thought we had created a lot in the third. I mean, yes … it's shit.”

Although it is a frustrating loss, it was a pretty good game between two good teams in all reality. There was not much space out there, but every team found ways to generate looks and opportunities despite the close review.

It was only important that the Canes rose behind the 8-ball due to a few bad power games.

“I thought the first period was the worst time for us,” said Aho. “You would like to see how we obviously start better. Especially the way we have played lately. But boys work hard and we always come to our game, but we just have to get it out of the first shift. For example. If you do not score a goal, you have not scored a goal, but also scored a hit.

Carolina hopes for a better effort tomorrow, as she aligns the Calgary Flames in the second half of a back-to-back back less than 24 hours later.

“Obviously we can get the acid taste out if we get out of a good effort tomorrow,” said Brind'amour.

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