How the Hurricanes can avoid a series loss and steal momentum back

The Carolina Hurricanes have another opportunity to extend their season at home in Raleigh against the Florida Panthers on Wednesday night.

Facing a 3-0 series deficit in Sunrise on Monday, the Hurricanes blanked the Panthers 3-0 to send the series back home and avoid a fourth consecutive sweep in the Eastern Conference Final.

On Wednesday’s episode of Daily Faceoff LIVE, Tyler Yaremchuk and Insider and President of Hockey Content Frank Seravalli discussed whether Monday’s contest was more Carolina stepping up or Florida taking the foot off the gas, as well as what we can expect Wednesday night.

Frank Seravalli: It may be too little, too late. Maybe you watch this and say, “Frank, come on man, get real,” but I kind of felt like watching Game 4, that they had unlocked a little bit of something. Was that their ability to find a different way to approach Florida? How much of that was also Florida perhaps kind of taking their foot off the gas?

Florida had a pile of injuries… did Florida more approach that like a December regular season game, thinking that Carolina might roll over and go 0-16 in conference finals? Or was that Carolina, and I lean toward this, finding something a little bit different, another layer to attack this, that maybe they’ve got something here. I could for sure see us going back to Florida for Game 6.

Tyler Yaremchuk: I need to see more from that Carolina offense. [They had] 28 shots on goal, great, but we’ve done this song and dance with the Canes… I want to see that Carolina offense wake up, but if I’m Florida, I’m basically sitting there going, “Hey, we went 0-for-4 on the power play, let’s try to get going a little bit.”

If you can get Sam Reinhart back, great, but I think that Florida offense can put forth a much better effort than they did in Game 3 as well. It’s whoever’s offense wakes up tonight.

You can watch the full segment and the rest of the episode here…