Can Logan Stankoven even be stopped at this point?
For the third straight game, the Carolina Hurricanes centerman opened the scoring, giving his team yet another 1-0 lead in their first-round series against the Ottawa Senators.
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The 23 year old has been red hot since the start of April and is currently riding an 11 game point streak between the end of the regular season and into the postseason, where he’s scored 10 goals and collected 15 points.
Stankoven leads all skaters in the series in scoring and is also tied for the league lead in playoff goals as well.
In fact, Stankoven became the first player in franchise history to score the opening goal in three consecutive playoff games.
The only other player in franchise history to even have a three-game, postseason-opening goal streak was current Anaheim Ducks GM Pat Verbeek back in 1991 and the only other player in NHL history to have a longer run of opening goals was Michel Goulet, who scored five straight in 1985.
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The line of Stankoven, Jackson Blake and Taylor Hall has been terrorizing Ottawa all playoffs long and it seems like the Senators just have no answer for them so far.
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