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Carolina Hurricanes: Takeaways from Home Loss to New York Rangers

By Matthew Nidiffer

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 27: Mika Zibanejad #93 of the New York Rangers celebrates his power-play goal at 2:54 of the first period against the Carolina Hurricanes as Jordan Staal #11 looks up at the scoreboard at Madison Square Garden on November 27, 2019 in New York City. The Rangers defeated the Hurricanes 3-2. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 27: Mika Zibanejad #93 of the New York Rangers celebrates his power-play goal at 2:54 of the first period against the Carolina Hurricanes as Jordan Staal #11 looks up at the scoreboard at Madison Square Garden on November 27, 2019 in New York City. The Rangers defeated the Hurricanes 3-2. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images) /
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – NOVEMBER 27: Mika Zibanejad #93 of the New York Rangers celebrates his power-play goal at 2:54 of the first period against the Carolina Hurricanes as Jordan Staal #11 looks up at the scoreboard at Madison Square Garden on November 27, 2019 in New York City. The Rangers defeated the Hurricanes 3-2. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – NOVEMBER 27: Mika Zibanejad #93 of the New York Rangers celebrates his power-play goal at 2:54 of the first period against the Carolina Hurricanes as Jordan Staal #11 looks up at the scoreboard at Madison Square Garden on November 27, 2019 in New York City. The Rangers defeated the Hurricanes 3-2. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images) /

The Carolina Hurricanes lost at home last night against the New York Rangers by a score of 5-2. Here’s how the Canes stacked up to my keys to the game.

oof.

That is, yet again, the best word to sum up last night’s game from the Carolina Hurricanes.

The New York Rangers always play well against the Carolina Hurricanes. It is just a fact at this point. The Rangers could be the worst team in the league, and still find a way to dunk on the Canes.

Normally, Henrik Lundqvist is the guy doing the dunking, but rookie phenom Igor Shesterkin has successfully carried that torch as of last night.

Many, many things went wrong last night. Bad defense, not-so-great goaltending, lack of scoring (again), and apparently the officials are cool with Erik Haula eating Jacob Trouba‘s shoulder for dinner, but not cool with Mika Zibanejad‘s stick breaking shortly before Jordan Staal‘s stick made contact with it.

In any case, the Carolina Hurricanes (yet again) didn’t really stack up to any of the keys to the game that I wrote about yesterday. Let’s take a closer look, eh?

(Also, I am aware that the images used in this article are old and not from last night’s game. Out of my control, my dudes.)

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