Projecting the penalty kill

A main goal for the Hurricanes this off-season was to strengthen their top-six by adding at least one top-line player, something they accomplished by trading for Jordan Staal and signing Alexander Semin. Not having enough horses up front was a major problem for Carolina last season, so both of these additions are going to go along way in improving that. However, another problem for the Hurricanes over the last few years has been extremely poor defensive play and it's debatable to say that their defense heading into this season is better than last year's unit.  This is especially true on the penalty kill as the Hurricanes were in the bottom-ten in terms of penalty kill success percentage and were also just outside the bottom-ten at preventing shots against when playing with a man down. We all know that the Hurricanes struggles to control play at even strength put them in a lot of holes last year, but their porous penalty kill also contributed to that. There were a lot of gam...