It's a new year, which means that it's time to restart our regular breakdowns of the Hurricanes scoring chance numbers. Wish that I could begin this on a happier note but the Hurricanes didn't get off to the start they planned last night, losing their season opener 5-1 to the Florida Panthers. I know that breaking down the gruesome details of a blowout loss is never fun, but it's a necessary evil that us statisticians have to do and the numbers from last night's game actually aren't as the score indicates. This was something I refuted a few times in the recap and on Twitter, but Carolina played a fairly strong game at even strength and ended up on the ugly end of a loss thanks to terrible discipline, penalty killing and sub-par goaltending. It would have been a completely different game if a few more breaks went their way in the second and third period. That's just the way the puck rolls sometimes, though.
Scoring chance breakdown is coming after the ...
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PLAYERS:
Jose Theodore,
Tim Gleason,
Jordan Staal,
Eric Staal,
Zach Boychuk,
Jiri Tlusty,
Drayson Bowman,
Zac Dalpe,
Bobby Sanguinetti,
Joni Pitkanen,
Justin Faulk,
Cam Ward,
Dan Ellis,
Jussi Jokinen,
Tim Brent,
Jay Harrison,
Jeff Skinner,
Chad LaRose,
Joe Corvo,
Keaton Ellerby,
Stephen Weiss,
Jonathan Huberdeau,
Jack Skille,
Mike Santorelli,
Tomas Fleischmann,
Filip Kuba,
Shawn Matthias,
Scottie Upshall,
George Parros,
Jerred Smithson,
Brian Campbell,
Ed Jovanovski,
Michael Caruso,
Tomas Kopecky,
Peter Mueller
TEAMS: Florida Panthers, Carolina Hurricanes
TEAMS: Florida Panthers, Carolina Hurricanes
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