ESPN's Bill Clement breaks down Carolina's 3-2 overtime win against the Red Wings in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup finals:

What Carolina did...
The Carolina Hurricanes were far sharper than I expected them to be. They were the ones who were supposed to be rusty after a seven-day rest -- which is too long. They commited few giveaways and had fewer defensive breakdowns. They were getting odd-man rushes against Detroit, instead of the other way around.

	Vasicek

The biggest surprise in the game was that the Detroit Red Wings had to adjust to Carolina's third line -- Josef Vasicek was just so overpowering down low against Mathieu Dandenault and Steve Duchesne that Scotty Bowman had to start busting up his defensive pairings and matching Chris Chelios and Jiri Fischer against them a little more. Of all the bizarre things that could have happened in Game 1, one that I least expected was that Carolina's third line would force Scotty Bowman into an adjustment.

What Detroit didn't do...
You've got to have people who are jumping pretty good. Some nights, if your thoroughbreds aren't ready to run, it doesn't matter how hard the jockey tries to get them to run faster. I didn't think Scotty Bowman could do much. He might have juggled his lines a bit, but there didn't seem to be as much energy from the Detroit gang in this one. The Red Wings seemed flat. They looked like a team that had let down after a Game 7 win vs. Colorado -- it was such a huge series, it was a rivalry, and they deafeated the defending champs. It's hard to push the right buttons when you've got people who are flat. It's almost like air coming out of a balloon and you don't know where the leak is.

Carolina is a pretty good 5-on-5 team, so if anything the penalties hurt Carolina more than Detroit. I was surprised there were so many penalties. I thought the refs would let them play a little more. If anything, the Red Wings had that power play at the end of regulation and they couldn't get it done. That was their opportunity. So, if anything, the penalties in the final analysis presented an opportunity for Detroit to win in regulation.

Bill Clement is a hockey analyst for ESPN. He played 11 seasons in the NHL as a center and won two Stanley Cups with the Philadelphia Flyers.