{"id":6592,"date":"2014-01-31T22:07:02","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T03:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=6592"},"modified":"2014-01-31T22:13:20","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T03:13:20","slug":"hurricanes-get-complete-game-win-over-tough-st-louis-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=6592","title":{"rendered":"Hurricanes get complete game win over tough St. Louis Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_6593\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6593\" style=\"width: 179px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/jeffskinner1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/jeffskinner1.jpg\" alt=\"Jeff Skinner.\" width=\"179\" height=\"174\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/jeffskinner1.jpg 179w, https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/jeffskinner1-36x36.jpg 36w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 179px) 100vw, 179px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6593\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeff Skinner.<\/figcaption><\/figure>The Carolina Hurricanes may very well have played their best, most complete game of the year in a 3-1 victory over the St. Louis Blues Friday night in a game with a playoff atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues, which has the best record of a western conference team against the east teams, fell behind early as the Canes\u2019 Nathan Gerbe scored four minutes in but managed to tie it on a power play goal.<\/p>\n<p>In the second period, the Hurricanes\u2019 Jeff Skinner scored after a face off in front of the Blues net to put the home team up 2-1. <\/p>\n<p>Late in the third period, the Canes\u2019 Alexander Semin wrapped it up with a contested empty net goal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe knew we had to come out strong against them but we carried it all the way through 60 minutes,\u201d Skinner said. \u201cIt\u2019s a big win but we want to focus on the next game, keep picking up points.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The win, which kicks off a four-game home stand, puts the Hurricanes at 59 points, four behind the second-place New York Rangers. The Hurricanes are now 11-4 since Dec. 31.<\/p>\n<p>Goalie Anton Khudobin, subbing for injured Cam Ward, improved to 12-4 with 26 saves against the second-highest scoring team in the NHL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Carolina Hurricanes may very well have played their best, most complete game of the year in a 3-1 victory over the St. Louis Blues&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canes","category-featured-stories","wpcat-89-id","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6592"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6596,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6592\/revisions\/6596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}