NEW YORK — The Carolina Hurricanes are heading back to Raleigh with a bigger problem than their persistent inability to win a playoff game on the road, one that for the second time has pushed them to the Game 7 brink.
For the first time in the playoffs, they’re facing a true crisis of confidence in their goaltending, and Frederik Andersen isn’t coming through that door to save them.
There’s every reason to expect Antti Raanta to bounce back from this Game 6 disaster, given how otherwise outstanding he has been during these playoffs, but it’s impossible to play as poorly as he did in Saturday’s 5-2 loss and not plant at least a few seeds of doubt that weren’t there before.
