The Washington Capitals and Carolina Hurricanes meet in the second round of the NHL playoffs in a series between division rivals that play the same defensively but try to score in entirely different ways.

The Carolina Hurricanes and Washington Capitals are getting ready to square off in the second-round of the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs. The NHL has announced the entire schedule for this series, updating dates and respective times.

NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs have been absolutely sensational thus far, and now we’re getting to the business end of the postseason. It’s very difficult to know how a team will adapt from an 82 game season of one-off matchups and project how they’ll translate that into a deeply tactical,