Hockey game 1

And so it begins!!!!
The hockey season has officially started...woohoo!!!
So Carolina wins 4-3 over the Minnesota Wild, good game but Minnesota gave up a three goals in the second period with some shoddy and lazy defense. The stars of the game for Minnesota were Guillaume Latendresse, Mikko Koivu, Brent Burn, and Cal Clutterbuck. For the Hurricanes it was Anton Babchuk, Joni Pitkanen, Brandon Sutter, and Cam Ward.
Sutter scored two of the Huricane's goals and Babchuk seemed to be all over the ice on the power play when he was out there. Clutterbuck was making his presence known whenever he was out on the ice with seven hits and zero penalty minutes. Koivu and Matt Cullen look like they will be logging a lot of ice time for the Wild this year as they were both over 21 minutes, Cullen was over 23 minutes, and were on the ice more than all but 3 of the Hurricanes players (all defensmen).
Both goalies did well to keep the scoring what it was, with Ward having to get a couple acrobatic saves to keep the win for the 'Canes. Backstrom was under the gun in the second period when the defense let him down but other than that he was steady and made the saves he was supposed to.