Hurricanes Face Must-Win Game 3: Return to System, Shoot More, Fix Special Teams

In the unforgiving arithmetic of playoff hockey, the Carolina Hurricanes arrived at Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Final carrying the weight of a 2-0 series deficit and a 10-2 scoring gap — numbers that rarely lie. Down in Sunrise, Florida, they faced not merely a must-win game but a reckoning with identity: had they drifted from the disciplined, collective system that had carried them this far, or could they find their way back to it? History offers no guarantees, but it does offer this — teams that rediscover who they are in moments of crisis sometimes find that the crisis was the point al