Hurricanes go back to Frederik Andersen with season on line

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — With their season on the road, the Carolina Hurricanes are turning again to the goaltender who led them to the Jap Convention finals.

Frederik Andersen will begin Sport 4 on Monday evening, with the Florida Panthers trying to full a sweep of the Hurricanes. He was benched in Sport 3 in favor of backup Pyotr Kochetkov, who performed effectively earlier than the Panthers blew the sport open with 5 objectives within the third interval for a 6-2 win.

Andersen was 7-2 with a .937 save share and a 1.36 goals-against common in 9 playoff video games earlier than going through Florida. However towards the Panthers, he gave up 9 objectives on 36 photographs (.750, 5.54) earlier than getting pulled after two intervals in Sport 2 and sitting for Sport 3. Andersen had given up simply 12 objectives in his earlier 9 postseason video games earlier than taking up the Panthers.

“He’s done great for us all year,” Carolina coach Rod Brind’Amour stated about giving the 35-year-old goalie the Sport 4 nod. “He had a nice couple of days off. So it makes sense.”

Certainly one of Andersen’s finest virtues is with the ability to bounce proper again into motion after a being out of the lineup, Brind’Amour stated. “It’s certainly unique skill set. We need it tonight, obviously,” he stated.

The Panthers have not simply crushed the Hurricanes on the scoreboard — they’ve routed them. Florida’s plus-12 objective differential is tied for the sixth highest via the primary three video games of a best-of-seven Stanley Cup playoff collection.

The important thing for Carolina in Sport 4, in line with winger Taylor Corridor, is to maintain the rating a lot tighter.

“We’re thinking about winning the game 1-0,” he stated. “If it’s close, then we’re in a good spot. If we can put pressure on them and cause turnovers and get a lead and pad that lead, great.”

The Hurricanes have failed to attain the primary objective in each recreation of the collection, which has been vital. Carolina is 5-0 when scoring first and 3-5 when it trails first within the playoffs. Within the common season, the Hurricanes had been 30-7-2 when scoring first and 17-23-3 when trailing first.

“Getting behind has just been a killer for us. It feeds right into what they do very, very well,” Brind’Amour stated.

In making an attempt to rally, the Hurricanes are bumping up towards precedent. Solely 4 groups within the historical past of the Stanley Cup playoffs have rallied to win a best-of-seven collection after trailing 3-0, though two have executed it prior to now 15 years (Philadelphia Flyers in 2010 and Los Angeles Kings in 2014) and the Edmonton Oilers practically pulled off the feat in final yr’s Stanley Cup Ultimate towards the Panthers.

The Hurricanes are additionally pushing towards their very own historical past. Carolina’s Sport 3 loss was its fifteenth straight convention finals defeat, relationship again to 2009.

However the Hurricanes consider that the strain has shifted considerably to Florida, and that there are sufficient positives to mine from their Sport 3 loss to maintain the religion for Sport 4.

“Whenever we’ve been up with a chance to an eliminate [an opponent], it’s always the hardest game. So that’s what we’re going to put forward. We have a lot of belief in our room, honestly,” Corridor stated. “Every shift is our season.”