Derek Stepan nailed it.
“What you’ve seen the few games is what you’re going to get the rest of the way,” the Carolina Hurricanes forward said Thursday morning. “Always at this time of the year it switches over and it becomes a grind type mindset.”
Hours later, the Hurricanes and Dallas Stars hooked up in one of those tight, grinding game at PNC Arena. It went to a shootout, the Stars winning 4-3 as goalie Scott Wedgewood made his Stars debut a memorable one.
