Last night's 2-1 loss to the Flyers had a lot of positives that Carolina could take home and a game where they could have earned at least a point but things didn't quite work out that way. I know a lot of recaps will say that Flyers netminder Sergei Bobrovsky stole this game for them and while it might look that way on paper, the Flyers defense put forth a strong defensive effort. They kept most of the Hurricanes 36 shots on goal to the outside and did a very good job at protecting the area in front of the net. The Canes may have barely outshot the Flyers, but they trailed in scoring chances 13-11 at even strength and most of their scoring chances came in short rushes. Carolina definitely had the puck in the Philly zone a lot of times, they just didn't do much with it after that.
Like I said, there are a lot of good things you can say about how the Canes played tonight despite the loss. Jerome Samson had a terrific game in his season debut, Justin Faulk had a relativel...
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PLAYERS:
Sergei Bobrovsky,
Jerome Samson,
Justin Faulk,
Bryan Allen,
Tim Gleason,
Jamie McBain,
Jaroslav Spacek,
Eric Staal,
Anthony Stewart,
Andreas Nodl,
Tuomo Ruutu,
Brandon Sutter,
Jiri Tlusty,
Alexei Ponikarovsky,
Cam Ward,
Jussi Jokinen,
Tim Brent,
Brett Sutter,
Jay Harrison,
Drayson Bowman,
Chad LaRose,
Brayden Schenn,
Wayne Simmonds,
Marc-Andre Bourdon
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