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Hurricane and grenades – After days of anticipation, the caps and Carolina Hurricanes break their best-of-Seven Stanley Cup-playoff series in the Stanley Cup playoff series this evening. Despite the same department for 25 of the NHL season from 1998 to 1999 until now, this spring is only the second playoff meeting between the Caps and the Canes.

It was a week since Carolina New Jersey from the playoffs in a five-game set in the first round, and six nights (since) the caps Montreal did the same.

“Finally the day has arrived,” says Caps coach Spencer Carbery. “It feels like it’s over a week since the last games, so it’s nice to wake up and it is the day we can play playoff hockey again.”

A lot has been written and said about Carolina’s play style and over the years. Every opponent knows exactly what he can expect from Carolina and everyone knows what they are doing against the sticks.

“I think they play very quickly,” says Caps Center Dylan Strome. “You get a lot of shots, you are good at using dynamics in your ice rink. I think it will be a challenge. We had some good games against you this year, but the playoffs are obviously a different animal. We will see what Tuesday brings.”

The challenge for the caps in this series is to keep a team that essentially acts with its playing style of dynamics, to keep dynamics, and that will not be an easy task.

“Your recipe for success is essentially to emphasize your team and to make her play on her half (the ice),” says Carbery of the Canes. “And what happens and why I think that it is snowballs and the challenge for our group during the series – and in the short term in individual games – that they collect momentum, and so they stressed them out and stressed them out, shot a few pucks into their net.

“And then you get this puck out, and it is exactly the same. So I stop it – I call it bleeding – and do not leave this shift in two and then three and then four and five. And you have the feeling that you were unable for five straight layers that you were not yet able to come in half, and you are constantly shooting pucks on your net.

“And that will be something that I will search for. You will have these layers. They are a great hockey team, and there is a reason why they are there today and why they have had so much success in the playoffs in recent years.

“But can you prevent four or five or six layers of dynamics that stretch for 10 minutes? Can you keep it in two layers? Can you keep it in a layer? And that will be our challenge, if you have the ropes, we can restrict and ensure that snowball does not have half a period or even a full period for a full period.

While the caps must be aware of Carolina’s style, its pace and aggressiveness, they cannot be distracted so that they lose sight of them and lose what makes them an impressive team themselves.

“I think we are aware of what they are doing and what their tendencies are and how they like to play the game,” says Caps striker Anthony Beauvillier, whose five points (one goal, four templates) are tied to second place under the caps in the playoff value. “But I think the most important thing is what we do and what we will do to be successful, just to understand what we have done to be successful, and now what we have to do to be successful. I think it’s just about us.”

School is out – Ryan Leonard’s NHL career started a little more than a month ago when he signed his NHL deal on March 31 and made his debut against the Bruins a night later. Since then he has been eventful for five weeks and played the last nine regular seasonal games and all five playoff games with Washington while he spoke out well on the ice and with his teammates.

In the first round of the playoffs against Montreal, Leonard had an average of 10:32 per game in the ice age, but he still took fourth place under all caps – and only for Brandon Duhaime under Washington – in hits that were recorded in the first round at 14. Play in the offensive zone.

“I thought I would play pretty well,” he says of his performance in the first round. “(In game 5) I thought I would play the best in the first period, get chances and move my feet. I just try to create energy for this team and get momentum.”

Leonard came from Boston College, where he was in Hähne with the Eagles finalist in his second season, never a playoff series and stood for several successive games with the same opponent.

“It is certainly much different from college,” he says. “I have never played a team so often. I think most were only three, with Boston University last year. But it’s unique and it is cool. Obviously, both teams know exactly what the other team will bring.

With Ivan Demidov in Montreal and Minnesotas Zeev Buium from the playoffs After the first round, Leonard is now the youngest player who remains in the Stanley Cup 2025 playoffs. He was 20.

Since Leonard moved to DC in early April, he has been forward at Caps Center PL Dubois, who pays so many NHL players. When Dubois made their debut as a teenager with Columbus in 2017-18, the then defender David Savard and his Dubois family took in.

Savard has just announced his resignation after 14 seasons in the NHL. His last game was the 5th game 5 last Wednesday.

“He was great,” says Leonard von Dubois. “He is so smart; you hear it from everyone. He is so smart and he helped me a lot to continue playing as I played and I don’t worry about anything.”

Carbery and the Caps coaching employees also helped Leonard in the early days and weeks of his NHL career and his first taste on Playoff hockey.

“And carbohydrates was also incredible. I made a video with him a few times a week and just helped myself to prepare for the next game,” says Leonard. “Everyone was super motivating and helped me to become the best player I can be.”

Leonard is pretty good too. He played with the veterans Lars Eller and Andrew Mangiapane and got used to the higher level, although his ice age has practically cut with the Golden Eagles in half of his days. The Mangiapane-Eeller-Leonard trio is one of 41 forward lines that are compiled in these playoffs at least 30 minutes together with 5-on-5 lines, and this unit occupies the 16th place of 41 and four strikers in Washington, which corresponds to the criteria with a expected interest rate of 56.7 percent.

“I think he was really good,” says Eller from Leonard. “I think he plays a really mature game. You can see the speed and the ability, but I think if young people appear or not experience that, do not make the right decision at the right times. I think he makes many good decisions on the entire ice, with and without puck. And it helps us as a line. We have not yet been rewarded, but we do a lot of good things.

“It was great to play with these boys,” says Leonard. “Of course we didn’t show as much on the status as we wanted, but you don’t have to score a goal to have a big impact on the game. If we can only bring the puck to the (offensive) zone and roll up the next line and set up the shop down there and benefit the team from it.

In the nets – Today’s game 1 goalkeeper Matchup places the two remaining goalkeepers in relation to the expected goals in the first round. Jacob Markstrom from New Jersey led all Netminders in the first round with 5.7 goals that were expected above, but the Hurricanes bounced off the devils from the first round in a five-game set.

Logan Thompson in Washington at 5.6 and Carolinas Frederik Andersen at 4.8 as the two top booths in this category leaves the second round. Both Thompson (in game 3) and Andersen (in game 4) drove in the first round with mid-game injuries. While Thompson returned the following game and started all five games in Washington in the first round in the first round, Andersen did not return to the Jersey series.

In his three home games in the first round, Thompson only allowed four goals against three with a straight starch and he was 18: 4: 5 with a shutout, a 2.65 GAA and a save PCT of 0.903.

Days ago, the 35-year-old Andersen signed an annual contract extension with the Canes, a deal that has a basic content of $ 2.75 million and can increase to $ 3.5 million with the achievement of certain performance bonuses.

In a time of eight years of season, in 2014-15, when he was with Anaheim in his second NHL season, Andersen played 50 or more games in six of these seasons. In each of the last three seasons, injuries Andersen have limited less than 35 appearances.

As early as 2017, the caps competed in the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs against Andersen when he repeated the Toronto Maple Leafs. The caps won this series in six games, with five of the competitions required overtime. Andersen went 2-4 with a 2.68 GAA and a .915 Save PCT. In these half dozen play in front of eight sources.

Everything set up – The capitals and the Hurricanes could search between the two teams after the start of the second round on Tuesday evening:

WASHINGTON

Forward

8-Onvechkin, 17-current, 72-boauvillier

24-McMichael, 80-Dubois, 43-Wilson

88-Mangiapane, 20-Eeller, 9-Leonard

22-Duhaime, 26-Dowd, 21-protas

defender

6-chychrun, 74-Carlson

3-roy, 38-sandin

27-alexeyev, 57 van Riemsdyk

goalkeeper

48 thompson

79-lindgren

Extras

16-wheel dysh

25-leg

52 Mcilrath

53 Frank

78-gibson

Out/injured

15 Milano (upper body)

19-backstream (hip)

42 fehstal (lower body)

77-Oshia (back)

CAROLINA

Forward

37-Svechnikov, 20-aho, 53-blake

71-Hall, 82-Kotkaniemi, 22-stank

48-Martinook, 11-Staal, 24-Jarvis

50-Robinson, 77-Jankowski, 28-carrier

defender

74-Slavin, 8 Brands

7-orlov, 5-chatfield

4-gostisbere, 26 walker

goalkeeper

31-Andersen

52-cooketkov

Extras

21-Nikishin

27-Jost

41-Martin

42-Smith

54-Jaaska

56 morning

61-Stillman

80-Khazheyev

96-roslovic

Out/injured

71 fast (upper body)