RALEIGH, N.C.—The formerly last-place Carolina Hurricanes stormed back to knock out their division’s best team in seven games. The Carolina Hurricanes’ Jordan Martinook, left, congratulates Greg McKegg for scoring against the New York Islanders during a series-clinching win on Friday. Carolina enters the conference final having won six games in a row and eight of nine since dropping the first two of its first-round series with Washington. The only losses in that stretch came to teams that went on to win it all — Detroit in the 2002 Cup final, and Pittsburgh in the ’09 conference final. Another winger, Saku Maenalanen, missed the final two games of the series with an upper body injury.

Source: thestar May 04, 2019 21:22 UTC