This one was never in doubt.

Sebastian Aho’s five points weren’t enough to overcome countless errors in the Hurricanes’ 7-5 loss to the Canadiens. https://t.co/sHYTVzvuae

More Staal, on the Avs: "If we play like that, we're going to lose 20-1. It's an exceptional team coming in, best in the league, and they're going to make us look like an AHL team if we don't show up and play and defend and, really, just play our game."

Staal: “Clearly, it's been enough games. We've talked about it enough. It's just a matter of going out and executing. I don't know how many more times Roddy can say it and (I) can scream it through the room. It's just a matter of going out and executing it and everyone taking

Brind'Amour on facing the Avs next: "We have no chance if we play like that. That's, for sure, not gonna work."

More Brind'Amour: “It was just our lack of sticking with what we've got to do, and we were just turning pucks over at an unbelievably high rate, all for no reason.”

Brind'Amour on Bussi: "I don't know how many saves he made, but he didn't make too many. But he's been great all year, so we've got to help him out at that point and not give up those odd-man rushes and things that create those scoring opportunities."

Brind'Amour: "We have deficiencies, clearly, and they're starting to show, right? We've held on for a long, long time. Just watch. It's obvious."

Brind'Amour: "We're obviously missing a lot of really important pieces. So when that happens, you have to double down on what we're doing. And we're going the other way. We're kind of like, 'Oh, he's out, so I'm gonna do twice the amount of stuff,' and it doesn't work. And that's

Aho on his five-point night: "I kind of mirror my own success with the team and how the team does, and it kind of just sucks to lose in this fashion, any game. But, yeah, just — I don't know what to say."

Aho: "If we want to go anywhere this year and make a deep run, we have to just somehow figure this out."

Aho: “We've been letting too many goals in, obviously, and there's no one to blame but ourselves.”

According to @hockey_ref, the last time a player had five points in a regulation loss was Gabriel Landeskog on Dec. 16,2017.

Hurricanes lose 7-5. Won’t get easier with the Avs coming to town Saturday.

Long-range ENG and it’s 7-5

Bad icing by the Habs. Will allow Carolina to put out their top 6v5 unit and pull Bussi

Aho scores — his fifth point — to make it 6-5 with 3:02 left

Bussi to the bench with 3:56 left