Comment 1: The Key to Penalties
This game was rife with penalties from both teams. It was a highly aggressive game with an average of 3.6 penalties per period the distribution was pretty similar with 5 coming in the first (2 at first for Halifax, followed by 3 in a row by Carolina). 1 for each in team in the second, and 2 for the Raiders and 2 for the Kraken in the final period. This is an interesting pattern of the Halifax Raiders setting the physical tone for the game early and Carolina not being afraid to answer back. This strategy obviously payed off for the Kraken as they were able to capitalize on 2 of the power plays and had a very strong penalty kill against the Raiders stopping all 6 of their PP attempts.