Carolina Hurricanes Struggle in Series Against Florida Panthers

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00:00Yeah, Troy, you take a look at, too, like Florida just seems like a machine right now.

00:03And nobody could have faulted the Carolina Hurricanes for saying, you know what?

00:06We're just going to bow out here, 4-0 sweep.

00:08No sense in playing the rest of the series.

00:10But they did pick up a victory, which means they go back to their own building.

00:13If we look at the series prices now, still going to be a heavy favorite for the Florida Panthers

00:17at a minus $1,600 as opposed to the dog price here on the Hurricanes at plus $860.

00:22Tell me what we need to see for the Carolina Hurricanes to even win game number five

00:26and try to extend this series.

00:28Yeah, they need their goaltender, Frederick Anderson, to play exactly as he did last night,

00:33which was to stop all the easy ones, right?

00:36Any shot from distance, he was on top of.

00:38He wasn't really getting to those early in the series.

00:42You know, he was benched for game three, came back and responded really well.

00:47Carolina needs to play a low-scoring game.

00:49Both teams are actually very good at tilting the ice in their favor.

00:52They like to play in the offensive zone, and they're very good at it.

00:55These were actually the top two teams in ice tilt, which is a measure of territorial momentum.

01:02These teams were great at it during the regular season, and they carried that into the postseason

01:06in both of their first two rounds.

01:08If Carolina is going to push the series even further, which we've seen Carolina do,

01:12but against Florida, we saw Edmonton in the Stanley Cup final last year.

01:17Florida went up 3-0, then had to force a game seven.

01:21So we've seen Florida kind of, you know, be patient, as we will, about closing out their series.

01:27We saw Carolina last year.

01:29Carolina against the New York Rangers fell down 3-0 in their series, and they pushed that series to game six.

01:35They play a very tough style that's difficult to play against, but so does Florida.

01:39So these are two titans that are going head-to-head.

01:42I don't see the series going much further.

01:45I don't see the series going seven games.

01:47Florida is just too good of a team.

01:48You can't beat them three or even four times in a row.

01:53Their margin of error for Carolina is zero, right?

01:56Like, you lost the first three games.

01:58I don't see how this series gets longer than five games.

02:01I don't see how this series goes.