Washington Capitals and Carolina Hurricanes' second round of Stanley Cup playoff series to wait finally ended.
The game is on Tuesday in Washington and the Best two teams of the Metropolitan Department adopts a seven best match -like approach.
Washington, who published the best record of the Eastern Conference, played on Wednesday and finished the first round series with Montreal Canadiens with a victory of 4-1 in the game 5. Hurricanes hired his series with New Jersey Devils in five games, and finally won 5-4 pairs of time last Tuesday.
Despite the relevant risks, no coach said that they felt very different from 82 -game torment from October to April.
“All year, we want our men to play the most difficult,” Carolina coach Rod Brind'amour said on Monday. He said. “Well, now you can't ask for more … It's not about pressure. A good time of the year to play.”
Spencer Carbery, the capital coach, told reporters that he felt “worse” than coaching in the heat of the moment while watching the last game.
“This time of the year, your whole season, and everything you work for, a call for a penalty, a kidnapped homework, a shot in the network can decide to work hard for eight months.” He said.
Carolina will do a test for the capitals. Hurricanes scored at least one goal against the demons. Sebastian Aho, who scored 74 points (29 goals, 45 assists) in the normal season, had eight points (three goals, five assists) in the first round. Aho has 14 goals and 30 points in 31 career matches against the capitals.
Dylan Strome directed the capitals with seven assists in the first round and nine points and helped Alex Ovechkin, a 39 -year -old Alex Ovalkin, who scored 44 goals in 65 games.
NHL's leading scorer of all time, Ovechkin has a history of lighting the lamp against Carolina with 52 goals in 93 games and 107 points. The most points against any team.
Washington and Carolina divided four normal season matches, both teams won their games at Home Ice. The capitals needed a conflict to get the last competition 5-4 on April 10.
Logan Thompson, Washington's best goalkeeper, played only a period of these games. After the first period of the April 2 game, the host Hurricanes won 5-1 due to a upper body injury held in the rest of the normal season. He scored three goals in this loss.
Thompson lost six goals in 45 minutes with 6-3 defeats on December 19, 2023 and lost Carolina as Netminder of Vegas Golden Knights.
Nevertheless, Carbery has no shortage of going with Thompson, who went 31-6-6 and Capitals scored an average of 2.49 goals after Average from Vegas last summer.
“He is only an ultra, an ultra -competitive man. When the pucck falls and the game begins, he wants to win desperately and will do everything to keep this black rubber away from our network.” He said.
Carolina is expected to return to Frederik Andersen on Tuesday. After colliding with Timo Meier from New Jersey, he quit his 4th game of Devils series and did not play in the 5th game.
35-year-old Dane is 10-4-3 with 2.58 GAA in 17 normal season matches against Washington. In the post-season experience against the capitals, the first round of 2017 went to 2-4 for Toronto Maple Leafs.
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