ハリケーンs, 資本／首都s 目的（とする） for more consistency out of break
It's a big week for the Carolina ハリケーンs, meaning they will want to start playing their best ホッケー soon.
After a rough beginning to the 再開 of their schedule after the All-星／主役にする break, the ハリケーンs take on the host Washington 資本／首都s on Tuesday night.
"We've got to get going again," ハリケーンs captain Jordan Staal said. "This time of the year it only gets tighter and tighter."
The ハリケーンs returned after more than a week-long layoff and lost Saturday night's home game to the New York 特別奇襲隊員s 6-2.
"Stuff that we can't be doing," Staal said. "I didn't love our かかわり合い to how we play and I'd like to see that come out the next game."
The ハリケーンs were on a seven-game winning streak 事前の to the All-星／主役にする break, so there was no 推論する／理由 for alarm after the shortcomings against the 特別奇襲隊員s.
"I'm sure we're going to learn from this one," ハリケーンs 今後 Jesperi Kotkaniemi said.
The ハリケーンs are encouraged to have defenseman Jaccob Slavin 支援する after he 行方不明になるd the last two weeks before the break with an 傷害. He was solid in his first game 支援する against the 特別奇襲隊員s.
The 資本／首都s and ハリケーンs will have a rematch Saturday night when they compete in an NHL Stadium Series game at North Carolina 明言する／公表する's Carter-Finley Stadium in Raleigh, N.C.
Before that high-profile event, both teams are trying to build 勢い as the つつく／ペックing order for the プレーオフs starts taking 形態／調整.
"There is big games coming up," Washington 今後 Evgeny Kuznetsov said. "I hope this type of game will help us to be better. We're going to learn from that and next game I'm sure we're going to come out hot and be much b etter."
The 資本／首都s are trying to get 支援する in a groove 同様に. The inconsistent play has already cropped up に引き続いて a layoff.
The 資本／首都s 分裂（する） two 週末 games in their first 活動／戦闘 since the break, winning at Boston and 落ちるing at home to San Jose to begin a three-game homestand.
"The successful game is 急速な／放蕩な and north (and south), not east and west and slow," Washington coach Peter Laviolette said. "It's pucks and people to the 逮捕する, and that's when we're at our best. ... So we've got to get to a quicker pace, a quicker mindset, a 配達／演説／出産 mindset. Get it out, get it through, get it in, attack, forecheck, 続けざまに猛撃する the 逮捕する."
Carolina （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 the 資本／首都s 3-2 in a shootout on Halloween in the only previous 会合 this season.
Tuesday night's game is part of the ハリケーンs' 年次の fathers and 助言者s trip, so the traveling 次第で変わる／派遣部隊 is rather large for the team.
With all that's going on this week, coach 棒 Brind'Amour doesn't consider any of them 消極的な distractions.
"I think it's good. Anytime you can celebrate the boys, their families, that's a big 取引，協定," Brind'Amour said. "It's always nice to break up the Groundhog Day of the NHL to have these 肉親，親類d of things on the schedule."
The ハリケーンs 持つ／拘留する a 17-4-6 road 記録，記録的な／記録する, with points in five straight (4-0-1) away from home. After going to Washington, they won't play another road game until March 1.
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