Carolina Hurricanes: Three takeaways as undermanned Canes lose

Carolina has fallen to 10-2 on the year as they lose 2-1 to the Philadelphia Flyers in the most annoying fashion as they get robbed of two points by Carter Hart. This was far and away, the best goaltending performance anyone has put up against the Carolina Hurricanes this season. Stopping 39 of 40 shots to rob the Canes of two points in the standings.

While Philadelphia wasn’t exactly the most stable of teams on their feet and was very good at getting penalties from things that were not infractions, that had nothing to do with the result in this game. A very good third-period push allowed the Flyers to pick up 2 goals and just shut it down after the Canes took the lead in the 2nd period. A clinical performance on the road for Philadelphia.

What makes this so annoying is that it makes it very difficult for the Carolina Hurricanes to take anything away from this back-to-back with the St Louis Blues waiting in the wings to take on the Canes tomorrow on their final home game before they embark to the west coast. It’s a difficult position to be in. Tomorrow’s game means so much more now because Hart was lights out.

Either way, that is tomorrow’s game and we still need to talk about this one. We need to talk about how Carter Hart just stonewalled the Carolina Hurricanes in a game that the Flyers had absolutely no right to be in. Carolina now sits just five points above the playoff line, and yet, they still sit top of the Metropolitan division due to having played 2 fewer games than Washington.