Hurricanes' Stankoven grows into 1st year as 2nd-line center, gets hot start to the NHL playoffs
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Hurricanes' Stankoven grows into 1st year as 2nd-line center, gets hot start to the NHL playoffs
It had been a while since the Carolina Hurricanes had finished practice, with players coming and going from the locker room. Such is the dynamic for the 23-year-old as the Eastern Conference's top seed heads into Round 2 of the NHL playoffs to face the Philadelphia Flyers. Stankoven has been rolli
It had been a while since the Carolina Hurricanes had finished practice, with players coming and going from the locker room. Such is the dynamic for the 23-year-old as the Eastern Conference's top seed heads into Round 2 of the NHL playoffs to face the Philadelphia Flyers. Stankoven has been rolling at nearly a point-per-game pace going back to mid-March, including scoring in every game of Carolina's first-round sweep of Ottawa.