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and can eliminate the Hurricanes in Game 6 on Monday night, while the Nashville Predators face elimination down 3-2 on the road against the Dallas Stars.In a first round that has included three series upsets and two division champions already knocked out, the Metropolitan Division champions smell blood, and the Central Division champions just want to stay in the playoffs a few more days.
“You don’t know the breaking point for any opposition,” coach Todd Reirden said on Sunday. “This was a big part of our success last year, that we needed to invest and force the opposition to play a difficult game and eventually if you do it for long enough and you believe in the rest of your systems enough you will break them.”
“We’re going to be desperate,” Hurricanes centre Jordan Staal said. “It’s playoff hockey and yeah, we’re facing elimination so we’re going to be a desperate team and hopefully we play that way and we compete better than we did last game.”The Predators are banking on that, too, after letting the Stars’ top line of Jamie Benn, Tyler Seguin and Alexander Radulov run roughshod over them in Game 5 Saturday afternoon.
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