The Wraparound: Can Hurricanes solve road woes in Game 6 vs. Rangers?

It has been a fascinating postseason for the Carolina Hurricanes to this point.

They enter Game 6 on Saturday night (8 p.m. ET) with a chance to reach the Eastern Conference Final for the first time since the 2008-09 season. They have done that without getting a single game from their starting goalie, Frederik Andersen, who remains sidelined, and perhaps even more improbably, without winning a single game away from home.

It has been a tale of two different postseasons for Carolina.

There is the Raleigh postseason, where they are 7-0 with a 25-8 goals advantage, and the non-Raleigh postseason where they are 0-5 while being outscored by an 8-21 margin. It is a pretty stunning turn of events for the Hurricanes because they were one of the league’s best road teams during the regular season. Their .659 points percentage on the road was tied for the NHL’s second-best mark (with the Calgary Flames), trailing only the .683 mark from the Washington Capitals. They also had a plus-19 goal differential that was second-best in the league.

For 41 games they were one of the best road teams in the NHL, mainly because they were also one of the best teams in the league regardless of where they played.

So what has happened here in the playoffs?

In some ways it just some random noise in a small sample size. If you look back at the regular season the Hurricanes had a four-game road losing streak in March, and a stretch in January where they lost four out of six games on the road. These things happen over the course of a long season. Good teams will lose several games in a row, bad teams will win several games in a row.

In terms of their actual play on the road this postseason there is not much difference in terms of how they play. Their