RALEIGH, N.C. — Well, unlike their previous five Eastern Conference final games against the Florida Panthers, the Carolina Hurricanes can’t claim they deserved better this time.
From the opening puck drop, the Panthers dominated Thursday, beating the Canes into submission with constant pressure and scoring three goals in the opening 20 minutes of a one-sided 5-0 victory in Game 2 of the series at Lenovo Center.
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The Hurricanes registered only five shots through 32 minutes, seven through 40 and 17 through 60, leading to restless fans chanting, “Shoot the puck!!!” throughout the second period.
The defending Stanley Cup champion Panthers are now two wins away from making a third straight trip to the Stanley Cup Final as the series shifts to Florida with Games 3 and 4 on Saturday and Tuesday.
The Carter Verhaeghe-Sam Bennett-Matthew Tkachuk line factored in on three even-strength goals — by Gustav Forsling, Tkachuk and Bennett — with Bennett and Aleksander Barkov also adding power-play goals. Bennett tied Dallas’ Mikko Rantanen for the league lead with nine playoff goals and notched Florida’s first multi-goal game since Nate Schmidt and Tkachuk scored twice apiece in their first game of the postseason back in the first round on April 22 against the Tampa Bay Lightning.
That’s how deep this team is.
Verhaeghe finished with three assists and Sergei Bobrovsky made 17 saves. The Panthers now have four power-play goals in two games after Carolina entered the series 28-for-30 on the penalty kill.
The loss extended Carolina’s losing streak in Eastern Conference final games with Rod Brind’Amour as captain or coach to 14 games after the Canes were swept in 2009, 2019 and 2023.
The Panthers, on the other hand, have gone 14 consecutive Eastern Conference final games without losing in regulation. They have 12 wins in that stretch. Their last conference-final regulation loss was on May 28, 1996, in Game 5 against the Pittsburgh Penguins. They then won the final two games of that series to advance to the Stanley Cup Final against the Colorado Avalanche in only their third year of existence.
Florida, which swept Carolina in 2023, also became the first team to earn six consecutive wins against a single opponent in the round before the Stanley Cup Final since the Detroit Red Wings did it against the Chicago Blackhawks from Game 4 of the 1966 semifinal to Game 3 of 1995 conference final.
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The Panthers are now 28-0 under Paul Maurice when holding a lead at the end of the first or second period in the playoffs.
The news wasn’t all good for the Panthers, who lost regular-season scoring leader Sam Reinhart late in the first period with a lower-body injury.
The Panthers improved to 7-2 on the road in the playoffs with a plus-25 goal differential (43-18).
This story will be updated.
(Photo: Jaylynn Nash / Getty Images)
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