VGK/CAR Game 3 Statcap

The details of Marner's superstar second period

I relate to this John Tortorella clip more often than I should.

There’s a lot of shit that happens in a game and the truth is, only 20% of it ends up really “mattering” at the end of the day. At least to most people, coaches are a different breed. I’m not a coach and have to catch myself from over-analyzing the game because not everyone is going to care about the details or small things your team did well in a game they lost 5-2. I just hate doomposting and don’t find it productive or entertaining so I’m usually neck deep in whatever the details of the game were.

That is where I thought this game was heading and then the Hurricanes did the unthinkable, scoring three goals in less than a minute and tying the game on the power play late in the third period. Even if they ended up losing in double overtime, my thoughts on the game echo that Torts clip, because they had an dreadful 15 minutes where everything went wrong. It took only one period for them to make that irrelevant and I just want to give some credit where it’s due because I’m not sure if other Hurricanes teams would have been able to pick themselves off the floor like that. Some fans were asking if there are any positives to take away from that loss and the only thing I could say is they have some form of “it,” meaning they keep pulling themselves back into games where no lead looks insurmountable. The downside is that I’m not sure if it’s enough.