Carolina Hurricanes: 3 Takeaways from a Huge Home Win Over the Devils

Depth Scoring

One of the more alarming trends for the Carolina Hurricanes of late is their recent streak of giving up the first goal. Enter last night’s contest, they’ve given up the first goal in each of their past six games. While playing catch up early and often is difficult in its own right, it’s even harder when depth scoring is almost non existent.

Touched upon in the 3 Keys to Victory, several key players upfront are in serious scoring slumps. It doesn’t matter if it’s Nino Niederreiter, Erik Haula, Ryan Dzingel, or basically anyone not name Sebastian Aho, Teuvo Teravainen or Andrei Svechnikov needed to step up. And step up they did.

Arguably the Canes’ best player last night, Niederreiter not only had his first multipoint game since December 21st,  he played what was possibly his best game of the season. Getting on the board 3:43 into the first period, it marked the first time in seven games the Hurricanes scored first. His eighth of the year came on Carolina’s first shot of the game.

Nino wasn’t the only forward to step up and elevate his game. Warren Foegele would reestablish the Canes’ lead on their third shot of the game. His 11th of the year ended a personal 13 game drought. First it was Svechnikov and then it was Martin Necas would extend their lead, marking the first time in recent memory where the Hurricanes have gotten scoring up and down their forward lines.