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Mike Tyson, back in his boxing prime, liked to say, \u201cEverybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Carolina Hurricanes had a plan for the Montreal Canadiens in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Final on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Establish the forecheck and keep the pressure \u2013 the Canes\u2019 relentless stress game \u2013 applied in the Canadiens zone and all over the ice. Make them work, make them scramble, make the Habs feel<\/i> them.<\/p>\n

Scoring first always helps in the Stanley Cup playoffs. Do that, too.<\/p>\n

It all clicked in the first 33 seconds of the game. Logan Stankoven\u2019s line nearly scored after the opening faceoff and then Sebastian Aho\u2019s line did as Seth Jarvis ripped a shot that had the Canes in the lead and the Lenovo Center loud.<\/p>\n

Then they got punched in the mouth.<\/p>\n

And things went sideways.<\/p>\n

Cole Caufield\u2019s goal 27 seconds after the Jarvis score tied it up and the Habs added another three goals with a flurry of quick breakouts and breakaways and terrific puck movement and management. The Canadiens led 4-1 after the first period and went on to a 6-2 victory.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne team looked like an Eastern Conference Final team and the other didn\u2019t,\u201d Canes forward Taylor Hall said Friday.<\/p>\n

The Hurricanes now feel the urgency to look more the part of the Eastern Conference\u2019s top seed in Game 2 or will go to Montreal\u2019s Bell Centre for the next two games in a 2-0 series hole.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know we have a lot more to give, and you just don\u2019t want to let things slide,\u201d Hall said. \u201cWhether we win or lose (Saturday), we have to play our game and to our identity and let that come through for 60 minutes, and let the cards fall where they do. That wasn\u2019t the game we know how to play.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Canadiens, the winning team, held a practice on Friday at Lenovo Center. The losing team did not.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s not what we need,\u201d Canes coach Rod Brind\u2019Amour said, with some bite in his voice. \u201cToday, we did practice but you just didn\u2019t see it. There\u2019s two different ways to practice. There was no point of going on the ice today. That\u2019s not what we need.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brind\u2019Amour did not elaborate on how things were handled \u2013 a lengthy video review to go over the many mistakes in Game 1, or more of an attitude-adjustment session and mental reset.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe needed to understand what happened last night and why it happened,\u201d Hall said.<\/p>\n

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The Canes must find a way to negate the speed of a Canadiens team that\u2019s after a fast pace and has offensive finishers. How best to do that in Game 2?<\/p>\n

\u201cFor us, it\u2019s about doing what we\u2019ve done all year,\u201d forward Nikolaj Ehlers said Friday. \u201cWe get pucks to the D, they rip it to the net, we get the rebound, we get them tired.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had some shifts last night where we were in their zone for quite a while and created a lot of good chances. But we didn\u2019t do enough of that and they were able to get pucks out pretty easily most of the time. And that\u2019s something we\u2019re going to change.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Canes did change that in the second period of Game 1. Fourth-line winger Eric Robinson scored for Carolina and Jarvis later had a breakaway off a perfectly executed Andrei Svechnikov stretch pass but was denied by goalie Jakub Dobes \u2013 the biggest save of the game for the rookie.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were icing pucks, their sticks were breaking, there\u2019s multiple guys on the ice and they\u2019re doing whatever they can to save goals,\u201d Hall said of the second-period play. \u201cThey were on their heels.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Canes could not keep it up in the third. They had just two shots on net after 11 in the second period as the Habs continued to clog passing lanes and block shots– they had 29 in the game. The Hurricanes never made things sticky for the Canadiens, who have a 7-2 road record in the playoffs.<\/p>\n

After starting the playoffs with eight straight wins, the Canes now face their first adversity. Goalie Frederik Andersen is facing his first adversity in net.<\/p>\n

Ehlers said he expected his old friend and fellow Dane, a player who is calm by nature, to recover quickly.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a veteran guy and has been in the league long enough to know, yes, they scored six on us but three were breakaways and two were right in the slot,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s on all of us. He\u2019s a great goalie. He\u2019s been there for us all year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Defenseman Jalen Chatfield also noted the Canes have been a team that has bounced back all season, a team steeled from playoff experiences that include a few bad losses.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019ve been relentless throughout the year when we\u2019ve faced adversity,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ve always been able to bounce back. To a man, we know what we\u2019re capable of and we\u2019re going to play to that standard next game.\u201d<\/p>\n

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