{"id":324693,"date":"2026-04-26T06:25:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T00:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=324693"},"modified":"2026-04-26T06:25:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T00:55:18","slug":"how-carolina-made-nhl-history-by-sweeping-senators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/26\/how-carolina-made-nhl-history-by-sweeping-senators\/","title":{"rendered":"How Carolina made NHL history by sweeping Senators"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-3781486\">\n<p>The Carolina Hurricanes dominated their first-round series against the Ottawa Senators, executing a four-game sweep where they didn&#8217;t trail for a single minute within the 4 games. Game 4 was a chippy affair because the Senators attempted to fight their way back into the series, but Carolina ended up scoring the go-ahead goal within the third period to take the victory. The Hurricanes&#8217; sustained run of success made NHL history as they advanced to the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AdamVingan\/status\/2048159788362498208\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first round<\/a>, based on Adam Vingan via X, formerly Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Hurricanes are one among three teams in NHL history with a series win in eight consecutive postseasons, joining the Canadiens (10 from 1984-93 &#038; 10 from 1951-60) and Flyers (9 from 1973-81),\u201d Vignan posted.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadiens and Flyers teams from these eras are an elite group for the Hurricanes to be a part of. All three runs for those teams included Stanley Cups, which Carolina hasn&#8217;t yet completed. The Hurricanes have gotten known for being a very good team that may&#8217;t recover from the hump under Rod Brind&#8217;Amour.<\/p>\n<p>While that&#8217;s becoming the narrative surrounding the team, we have not really seen them dominate a team as they did against the Senators on this series. It might be just the thing they should get their confidence up, with a possible second-round series with the Philadelphia Flyers looming.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to now, the Hurricanes&#8217; kryptonite has been whatever team comes out of the Atlantic Division within the Eastern Conference Final. This season, it won&#8217;t get any easier, however the Hurricanes are hoping that is finally the 12 months to recover from the hump.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Carolina Hurricanes dominated their first-round series against the Ottawa Senators, executing a four-game sweep where they didn&#8217;t trail for a single minute within the 4 games.  Game 4 was a chippy affair because the Senators attempted to fight their way back into the series, but Carolina ended up scoring the go-ahead goal within the third period to take the victory.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Carolina Hurricanes dominated their first-round series against the Ottawa Senators, executing a four-game sweep where they didn&#8217;t trail for a single minute within the 4 games. Game 4 was a chippy affair because the Senators attempted to fight their way back into the series, but Carolina ended up scoring the go-ahead goal within the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":324694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[3686,1145,649,8498,26387],"class_list":["post-324693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-carolina","tag-history","tag-nhl","tag-senators","tag-sweeping"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324693"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324696,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324693\/revisions\/324696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}