For the first time in franchise history, the Carolina Hurricanes have lost their first eight games in a season.
Friday night, they'll finish a travel-heavy October with zero wins and two points in eight contests.
To describe all that has gone wrong this month—from injuries to almost half of the team's NHL-caliber forwards, to the worst save percentage in the league, to Alexander Semin's ineptitude and Elias Lindholm's invisibility and Ron Hainsey's sluggishness—would surely take all of November.
Here's what first-year general manager Ron Francis told team reporter Michael Smith on Tuesday:
We’re in a hole, and we’ve got to stop digging and figure a way to make ourselves better to get out of it. There’s no easy fix. Other teams aren’t going to feel sorry for you and take it easy on you, so you just have to suck it up and fight through it.
Indeed, the 'Canes are in a hole. A Grand Canyon-sized hole, one might say, with the Arizona Coyotes rolling into Raleigh Saturday.
The two-point October is a new worst for the 'Canes, historically a slow-s ...
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