Carolina Hurricanes facing goalie test after Petr Mrazek injury Globe_Sports
Carolina allowed 2.7 goals a game during the regular season. Mrazek stopped 91.4 per cent of the shots he faced, while McElhinney’s save percentage was .912.Rod Brind’Amour considers himself lucky to have two goalies he trusts. It looks as if he is turning to the second one.
There hasn’t been much instability at that position across the league during this postseason, which makes sense – teams generally don’t make the playoffs with shaky goaltending. Carolina became the third team to use multiple goalies, and there wasn’t even a whiff of controversy for the two other teams making in-game moves.
McElhinney stopped all 17 shots he faced to close out Game 2 in just the third postseason appearance he’s ever made.“It’s just gas and go,” McElhinney said. “It’s one of those things that I’ve been around long enough and I’ve been thrown into those situations before. Obviously, the playoff atmosphere’s a little bit different, but the game itself is still the same. I’ve felt pretty good all year long.
When Darling was injured in the preseason finale, Carolina found the 35-year-old McElhinney on the waiver wire and the journeyman fit so well with the Hurricanes that they placed the largely ineffective Darling on waivers and sent him to their AHL affiliate in Charlotte, N.C.
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