Raleigh, North Carolina — They barely noticed that the Carolina Hurricanes had secured another postseason berth.
Sebastian Aho and Seth Jarvis each had a goal and two assists, Frederik Andersen made 24 stops, and the Hurricanes defeated the Detroit Red Wings 4-0 on Thursday night.
Securing a postseason spot is “kind of almost unfortunate that it gets overlooked a little because of where we sit,” according to Hurricanes coach Rod Brind’Amour. You don’t realize how difficult that is to achieve, especially with the remaining number of games. It was always going to happen, so I didn’t even consider it.
Carolina scored four goals in the second period, with Aho and Jarvis scoring 57 seconds apart and Brady Skjei and Martin Necas scoring the other two. Each of the four
The 12-minute period yielded our aims. Jake Guentzel provided two helpers.”We performed well.”
job securing our position as this league’s best squad,” Jarvis remarked.
For the sixth straight year, Carolina will make it to the postseason. That has only occurred twice in the franchise’s history, and it hasn’t happened since Hartford, Connecticut, was moved in 1997.
Brind’Amour remarked, “I should have mentioned it to the guys after the game because that’s what we set out to do in September. That is a big deal.” “You need to finish this segment of the race.”
Andersen, who returned from a more than four-month sabbatical with a 7-0-0 record, recorded his second shutout in his last five games.
During the first three of a five-game road trip, the Red Wings have a winless (0-2-1) record.
