The Carolina Hurricanes snapped a 15-game conference finals losing streak with a win over the Florida Panthers in the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
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The Carolina Hurricanes will not be swept by the Florida Panthers, but they still have a long, uphill fight
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The good news is they never have to talk about their 15-game conference finals losing streak ever again
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That inglorious streak dated back to 2009, and it felt like a heavyweight to carry
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in addition to having to battle the defending champion Panthers. Even if none of the current Hurricane players were on the team when it began
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Canes goaltender Frederick Anderson helped the effort with a 20-save shutout. We're a proud team, of course
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I'm not going to dive into too much of what we talked about, but I think we knew we haven't really played our best hockey
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for that much of these first three games, and that was really our focus
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just to try to put our best game at them and see how it went
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It went well, considering. As for the streak, well, it's so old
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Carolina captain Jordan Stahl was on the Pittsburgh Penguins team that got it started 16 years ago
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There's a lot of character in this room and a lot of guys that didn't want to go home
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We know we have a large, huge hill to climb here and we've got a great team on the other side
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that is going to come back with a better effort, and we know that. Monday night game was a tight 1 affair until two late empty net goals gave the Canes some breathing room A stark contrast from the first three games of the series when the Panthers just skated right over Carolina
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outscoring them by a combined 16-4. Head coach Rod Brindamore says the job is far from over
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We know that they're not going away. This is not even a blimp on the radar for them is how
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they're looking at it but we have to keep keep the gas down or keep the hammer down and give us
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give us a chance again. But do they really have a chance? Only four teams in NHL history have ever
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come back from a three nothing series deficit to advance. Here's the exclusive club the last team
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to do it the Los Angeles Kings 11 years ago. No one has done it against the defending champs and
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the Panthers do not want to be on the wrong side of history. Head coach Paul Maurice doesn't want
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to give the Hurricanes any more hope. And credit to them, I haven't been nearly as down on that
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hockey team as you find people have been over the last three games, and then I won't be as down on
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my team tonight. They were good. They had good sticks. They had good quickness. Game five is
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Wednesday night in Raleigh. The winner of this series takes on the winner of the Western Conference
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final between Edmonton and Dallas. The Oilers are up two games to one in that series with game four
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Tuesday night in Edmonton. For Straight Arrow News, I'm Chris Francis
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