The Hurricanes have been a pretty decent team at even strength so far this year but their underlying numbers are skewed heavily due to the fact that they have been forced to play from behind in all but two of their games. This is partially the reason why they have outchanced their opponents in every game this year and why most of their players have very positive underlying numbers. The usual solution to these problems is to only include stats from when the game was tied but Carolina's games have been tied for maybe a combined 60 minutes at the most, which is obviously too small of a sample size to make a judgment call on. We should find out just how "good" this team is at even strength in the upcoming weeks when they get more games under their belt.
Unfortunately, last night's game against the Toronto Maple Leafs probably did nothing but make their underlying numbers even more strange. The Hurricanes were dominated for the first 20 minutes and outchanced 11-4 b...
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PLAYERS:
Cam Ward,
Jamie McBain,
Tim Gleason,
Kevin Westgarth,
Jordan Staal,
Eric Staal,
Jiri Tlusty,
Drayson Bowman,
Bobby Sanguinetti,
Joni Pitkanen,
Justin Faulk,
Alexander Semin,
Tim Wallace,
Jussi Jokinen,
Tim Brent,
Jay Harrison,
Jeff Skinner,
Chad LaRose,
Mikhail Grabovski,
Dion Phaneuf,
Cody Franson,
Jay McClement,
Clarke MacArthur,
John-Michael Liles,
Colton Orr,
James Reimer,
Frazer McLaren,
Matt Frattin,
Nikolai Kulemin,
Tyler Bozak,
Nazem Kadri,
Mark Fraser,
Leo Komarov,
Korbinian Holzer,
Phil Kessel,
James van Riemsdyk
TEAMS: Toronto Maple Leafs, Carolina Hurricanes
TEAMS: Toronto Maple Leafs, Carolina Hurricanes
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