A near 100-point team, hosting a hopeless, 60-point team, ought to win comfortably, no? Not when the underdog is the Carolina Hurricanes and the favored adversary is the Caps. The ‘Canes, no matter the month in the calendar, no matter how low the stakes, skate up in the proverbial grill against the Caps just about every time.
“They scare the heck out of me,” Bruce Boudreau said in the aftermath of his team’s 4-3 overtime survival test against the 13th-in-the-East Hurricanes. The Capitals, who has a 13-game home winning streak snapped on Monday night, earned a standings point in their 15th consecutive game at Verizon Center.
Carolina was the last team to enter Verizon Center and emerge victorious in regulation time, back on December 28, a 6-3 smackdown that wasn’t as close as the score indicated. That game was an outlier in this longstanding grudge match. The Caps won a pair of one-goal games preceding the end-of-year blowout. Wednesday night at Verizo...
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