Hurricanes Avalanche Francouz, But Come up Empty Handed

The Carolina Hurricanes put 47 shots on Pavel Francouz only sneaking in two past him on a night that felt like luck wasn’t going our way.

It was Pride Night in Raleigh last night as the Carolina Hurricanes celebrated the LGBTQ+ Community and hosted the Colorado Avalanche. The organization rolled out an excellent representation of the community and tackled one of the most important social issues in our nation.

What happened on the ice after that wasn’t something to be proud of.

For the next sixty minutes the Canes would assault Pavel Francouz with 47 shots on goal and only scoring two goals off the stick of the same player in a night that the players need to be quick to wash away. There were good and bad moments.

The good? Teuvo Teravainen seems to have gotten his scoring touch back and Sebastian Aho tallied two helpers to his finnish wingmate and extended his point streak to 14 games, only three games shy of the record this season. Aho remained nine goals short of the franchise record of 45.

The only other good thing to come from the game was a surprise performance by Anton Forsberg who really only gave up one bad goal to Tyson Jost on the second goal. The first goal was a two on one and the third was a dead slot headhunter. Can’t blame him on those. Otherwise he finishes the game with a Sv% higher than .900. Perhaps Alex Nedeljkovic is in hot water?

But those are far from the only takeaways from the game. It was the final home game of the season and there was much to take in. For one, the home crowd hasn’t seen a win since Valentines day and don’t get to see another Canes game until the 14th as the Hurricanes start an extended road trip tomorrow that will be broken up by a short hockey-less stay at home.

Until then lets break down what happened.