Eric Engels

And...

they got out of their zone in the first period, 93% of the time in control of the puck.

Even in the second period when Carolina had dominant stretches of play, which you expect all you Canadians fans who are going to be crying at home saying like, Oh, why are they sitting back?

No, Carolina is an amazing hockey team and they apply pressure with all five guys.

And there are going to be 10 minute stretches of this series where you are just going to be watching kind of like this.

Like it, it,

That is a credit to how good they are.

And people are going to want to blame Mike Matheson on the first goal against.

That was a perfect example of how those guys will force you into certain turnovers.

That wasn't Mike overthinking it and doing something stupid.

That's how good those guys are.

And there's going to be moments like that.

But even under that pressure last night, the Canadians defended well.

They exited their zone more than 50% of the time in control of the puck.

They got four odd man rushes.

Caulfield hit the post right before Robinson scored.

Mm-hmm.

Last night was a perfect sample, if you look at the whole game in general, as to how the Canadians can beat these guys.

I don't expect them to do it in four games.

I don't expect necessarily that they'll even do it in seven, but they have an advantage now up 1-0 and all the pressure's on Carolina.