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Brind'Amour on all the penalties: "There's just no flow. We didn't grow the game tonight, that's for sure, but I think it's a good game for us because the offensive guys realize that, 'Woah, now we've got to getting going here.'"

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Brind'Amour said his team "beat it up." "You could just see that our top guys were just fumbling it or passes weren't connecting. A lot of rust there for sure.

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Bussi: “I felt pretty good and gave up a bad goal.”

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Forsling one-timer with 4.3 left wins it for Florida.

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Staal, Walker, Slavin vs. Barkov, Reinhart, Jones

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Here's the good news: It's only 7:52 p.m.

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0-0 and we go to overtime

1:11 left and Carolina ices it. Barkov vs. Stankoven on the D zone draw

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Hall gets out. Carolina still perfect on the PK

Walker drills Reinhart in the neutral zone

Jankowski takes a shift with Aho and Svechnikov

A few chances in front, but it won't go. Back to 5v5

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Gostisbehere jumps on a puck in the neutral zone and Hathaway trip him from behind. Carolina gets another PP.

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Stankoven line with their best shift

Punch chance from Aho in the slot and Markstrom saves it off the mask Cechmanek style

Icing by Florida's fourth line, and here comes the Aho line over the top

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The Hurricanes with the best chance of Florida's power play. Back to 5v5.

Staal and MTkachuk conferencing with the refs before the start of third. Staal likely planting a seed after Carolina got the only penalty in that scrum at the end of the second.

Florida starting the third with a two-minute power play after Walker's undisciplined end-of-period infraction.

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According to @naturalstattrick.com, the Hurricanes had 0.00 expected goals in 8:55 of 5v5 time in the second.

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Both teams are 0 for 5 on the PP. Florida, in 7:52, has six shots with the man advantage, while Carolina, in 6:38, managed six shots. Overall, shots are 14-10 Florida, and there have only been a combined 23 5v5 shot attempts (15-8 Florida).

0-0 after two. A scrum at the end, and Walker is called for unsportsmanlike helmet for grabbing MTkachuk by the visor.

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Aho with a big shorthanded block, which leads a 4v1 rush. But Markstrom stands tall and then makes a couple more stops to kill it off.

Carrier battling for the puck near the Florida bench and is upended by Imama. Carolina back to the PP.

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Luostarinen gets behind Gostisbehere and Legault for a breakaway, and Bussi brushes his bid away.

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Hurricanes tilting the ice a little here at 5v5, but it's still mostly a slog out there

Just 3:23 of 12:37 this period has been played at 5v5

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We're back to 5v5 (again, for now)

Reinhart coughs up the puck, but Markstrom stops Aho shorthanded

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Carolina's power play sputters, and then they're called for too many men with 8 seconds left on the 5v4. As I said, we're never playing 5v5 again.

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Good block by Forsling on Ehlers

Hathaway hit hard by Gostisbehere and responds with a cross-check, so Carolina will have Stormy seconds of 5v3

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BTkachuk crashes the net and plows into Bussi. Carolina is headed back to the PP once we unscrum everyone.

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A second stand-up save by Bussi this period, and then Blake is taken down by a flat-footed Kulikov. Carolina back to the PP. We're never playing 5v5 again.

Hurricanes kill it all off

Walker with a big hit that triggers a 2v1 with Miller, but the puck ends up in the mesh.

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And now another penalty, this one on Aho for tripping. 4v3 for 1:12, then 21 seconds of 5v3 for Florida

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Svechnikov turns the puck over and then gets called on the backcheck, so we'll be 4v4 for 1:39

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Hall tripped by Forsling at the Panthers' blue line and Carolina will get its first power play

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Miller with a sliding sweep check to break up a 2v1

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Eric Robinson credited with five hits in the first period. Carolina owning the faceoff dot — have won 15 of 22, led by 6 of 7 from Staal.

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