Three Takeaways: Hurricanes Prove They’re The Real Deal In Game One Win over Bruins
By Jim Lynch
1. Hurricanes silence the critics after game one.
I think one of the more widespread picks for people’s brackets this postseason was to pick Boston over the Canes. Well that upset just got a little harder to complete with the Canes dominating game one the way they did against the Bruins.
This Hurricanes team is going to be good for a long time. As elite teams like Tampa Bay begin to take a step back, the East is going to turn into the Hurricanes’ territory considering how good and young their team is.
The team that wins the first game of a best of seven series has won the series 68.8 percent of the time as said on ESPN’s The Point last night. For the Canes, their job is not done yet but at least they can go into game two confident.
One player who definitely should be confident now has to be the netminder Antti Raanta.