 Though the Hurricanes stunned the Wings in Game 1 when Ron Francis scored in the first minute of overtime, Detroit stormed back to win the next four games.Game 3 in Raleigh featured a triple-overtime thriller eventually won by Detroit's Igor Larionov, the oldest player to score a last-round goal.The Hurricanes looked poised to pick up where they left off in the 2002–03, but never recovered from a 10-loss January and finished dead last in the league with 61 points.