Bryan Rust has played 70 games *once* in his career. If you’re gonna invest a lot of money into an injury prone forward it might as well be the guy who is a first ballot hall of famer.
That was honestly probably the Canes best away game in the playoffs so far. Really gotta tweak that power play. Figure that out and we'll be good (until Tampa)
Good thing Lucic lets up and tries to stop or that could have been bad. You can see he even tries to catch Smith from falling. He absolutely did not need to get that close but I don't think that was malicious at all.
That looked more like clumsy skating than anything. Probably had no problem knocking Smith down without actually hitting him.