The Carolina Hurricanes will not want to remember this trip to Florida as they were handed both a 4-2 and 4-0 loss in the same evening.
The Canes fell 4-2 to the Florida Panthers earlier in the evening and then followed that loss up with another one, a 4-0 shutout at the hands of the Tampa Bay Lightning.
Fresh off the news of goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy's back surgery that will sideline him for at least two months, backup keeper Jonas Johansson made his case, turning aside 42 shots to shutout the Hurricanes.
It wasn't just the Hurricanes' B-team either as the group that went to Tampa Bay included nine of their expected starting forwards including Sebastian Aho, Seth Jarvis, Martin Necas and Teuvo Teravainen.
Despite the lack of goals, the Hurricanes did put together a good overall performance. They generated 42 shots despite a poorer start, but just couldn't beat Johansson.
The goals against were more gaffes on their own end too rather than being dominated.
The first goal against was a whiff in his own end by Dylan Coghlan that went right to Anthony Cirelli, the second came on a Tampa power play where Yaniv Perets made the initial save but Felix Robert was allowed to skate in and just jam the puck in, the third was another turnover to Cirelli, this time shorthanded though, and the final goal was just a Luke Glendening solo effort that deflected off a Hurricanes stick.
While it's disappointing that the Hurricanes didn't get the goals they needed, it was also a lot of those regulars' first preseason game and also the fact that it is just the preseason.
The Hurricanes will be back in action October 5 against the Nashville Predators at Bridgestone Arena.
