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Aho to Walker.<\/p>\n

Walker to Gostisbehere.<\/p>\n

Gostisbehere to Jarvis.<\/p>\n

Bang.<\/p>\n

With one mighty clapper from the top of the left circle, Seth Jarvis shed about 100 pounds from his back, silenced thousands of critics, and gave the Carolina Hurricanes the boost they needed to square up the Stanley Cup Final at a game apiece.<\/p>\n

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Maybe that<\/i> was the jolt Jarvis needed. Maybe Game 2 finally solved the power play perplexity that\u2019s bewildered the Hurricanes and their fans alike for the past two months.<\/p>\n

Jarvis, who has been for the Hurricanes over three seasons what Logan Stankoven has become in the 2026 NHL playoffs \u2014 gritty, tenacious, high-motor \u2014 has largely been silent this postseason.<\/p>\n

That is, until Thursday, when quiet was the last adjective anyone would pick to describe the scene inside Lenovo Center, which unofficially reached about 115 decibels at its peak.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s incredible,\u201d Jarvis said late Thursday night. \u201cI\u2019ve imagined doing it a lot. To do it in real life is awesome.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is exciting. This is what playoff hockey is all about. Tight games, momentum swings, and you never know what\u2019s going to happen next.\u201d<\/p>\n

What the Hurricanes hope happens next is another win or two \u2026 or three.<\/p>\n

To get there, they\u2019ll need everyone on the scoresheet \u2014 including Jarvis.<\/p>\n

And to be fair, Jarvis isn\u2019t the only one who\u2019s been quieter than they should be.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone has to play well if you\u2019re going to win at this time of year, it\u2019s as simple as that,\u201d Hurricanes head coach Rod Brind\u2019Amour said Wednesday between games 1 and 2. \u201cYour best guys have to get on the scoresheet. That\u2019s going to have to happen if we want to get to where we want to be.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prescient, much?<\/p>\n

But he could have said that same thing after Game 1 against Montreal in the Eastern Conference Final.<\/p>\n

Or, maybe, when he was asked about the Canes\u2019 winning despite a lack of production from Jarvis, Sebastian Aho and Andrei Svechnikov, among others, in Rounds 1 and 2.<\/p>\n

Before this week, a superhuman effort from Frederik Andersen and timely scoring from players that should have been the Canes\u2019 scoresheet depth have masked those players\u2019 collective disappearing act.<\/p>\n

But this is the Stanley Cup Final. There\u2019s no masking anything anymore.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s only so many times Brind\u2019Amour can say that \u2014 or something like it. There are only so many words to spin what has been obvious to everyone in Lenovo Center for Games 1 and 2 of the Stanley Cup Final, and to every one of the 5.5 million viewers who tuned in to watch the most-watched Game 1 since 2019:<\/p>\n

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Barring a matching set of undisclosed injuries to Aho, Svechnikov and Jarvis, there has been little to explain their lack of production on the biggest stage this team has been on in 20 years; certainly the biggest NHL stage any of these players have been on.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we can be a little bit smarter with the puck,\u201d Aho said Wednesday. \u201cWhen you have the chance to shoot, you have to shoot. At the same time, you have to play the game the right way. Obviously, I know we have better in us. We have to show it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thursday was a start. A great start.<\/p>\n

The power play flickered. Jarvis came to life.<\/p>\n

There, in those moments, they \u201cshowed it.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the first two games of the Stanley Cup Final, Vegas goalie Carter Hart has been fine, but he hasn\u2019t played better than Andersen. His defenders and backchecking forwards are playing better than the Canes\u2019 forwards. The Golden Knights have a deeper, more physical back line than the Canadiens, Flyers or Senators. They have more defensively accountable forwards, and when Hart is offering one of his multitude of rebounds, his team has routinely been clearing the pucks out of harm\u2019s way more efficiently.<\/p>\n

Svechnikov has size and brute strength. He has the game to lower his shoulder, bully his way to the net and generate offense one-on-one.<\/p>\n

Aho is skilled, as adept a playmaker as anyone in the NHL when he\u2019s at his best. His game Thursday might have been his best since the earlier rounds.<\/p>\n

Jarvis is usually a pest, moving his legs, diving into the dirty areas, mucking it up in front of the net or digging the puck out of the corners.<\/p>\n

They were, for the most part, those<\/i> players in Game 2 on Thursday. Finally.<\/p>\n

Brind\u2019Amour shifted lines around in the third period, swapping Jarvis alongside Jordan Staal and Nikolaj Ehlers while shifting Jordan Martinook alongside Aho and Svechnikov.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were in a little funk there and we needed to do something,\u201d Brind\u2019Amour said after the game.<\/p>\n

Like so many of Brind\u2019Amour\u2019s in-game tweaks, it worked.<\/p>\n

Andersen did his job in Game 2, allowing only three goals \u2014 two on a breakaway or partial break after lapses in defensive effort, and one that went off defenseman Jaccob Slavin.<\/p>\n

And, finally, Jarvis and company got one. And, just like that, the Hurricanes are back in the series.<\/p>\n

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Bang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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