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Wolfpack · 04-17-2009, 10:13 PM

Woo-hoo! Carolina hangs on by its fingernails against New Jersey and salvages a split with a 2-1 OT win.

Carolina played a freightload better than they did in Game 1, but NJ still seemed to generally have them on their heels a lot. It's also hard to say whether NJ's play was agitating Carolina or whether Carolina was trying to do some message-sending, but the skirmishing picked up a lot tonight, resulting in a fair amount of roughing or similar penalties on Carolina (for one of the least penalized teams in the league this year, they've been getting penalties in bunches lately). The PK was fortunately once again very good, however, keeping Carolina in the contest. At least Carolina was able to carry the play for good stretches and pretty much dominated the OT before Gleason's winner.

04-17-2009, 10:13 PM	#117
Wolfpack Pro Rookie Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Raleigh, NC	Woo-hoo! Carolina hangs on by its fingernails against New Jersey and salvages a split with a 2-1 OT win. Carolina played a freightload better than they did in Game 1, but NJ still seemed to generally have them on their heels a lot. It's also hard to say whether NJ's play was agitating Carolina or whether Carolina was trying to do some message-sending, but the skirmishing picked up a lot tonight, resulting in a fair amount of roughing or similar penalties on Carolina (for one of the least penalized teams in the league this year, they've been getting penalties in bunches lately). The PK was fortunately once again very good, however, keeping Carolina in the contest. At least Carolina was able to carry the play for good stretches and pretty much dominated the OT before Gleason's winner.