The Carolina Hurricanes are taking a four-game winning streak built at home on the road Tuesday when they play the Toronto Maple Leafs.The road has been a challenge for the Hurricanes this season. They are 2-3-4 in away games while the Maple Leafs are 7-2-0 at Air Canada Centre.This game that were playing right now can go on the road and win, Hurricanes coach Bill Peters said. Its a good team game. Its four lines deep.Carolina will find out how much it has improved after starting the season slowly. The game against Toronto is the opener of a three-game trip and starts a stretch of nine games of its next 11 on the road.If we continue to play the way weve been playing, we all know we can play with anybody in this league, said defenseman Noah Hanifin, who scored a goal in the 3-1 win over the Winnipeg Jets on Sunday.The Hurricanes lost the opener of a five-game homestand 4-2 to the Anaheim Ducks on Nov. 10 before defeating the Washington Capitals, the San Jose Sharks, the Montreal Canadiens and the Jets.Its fun to win, Hurricanes center Jeff Skinner said. Guys come to the rink, and everyone is contributing. You can take pride in that and build on the confidence in our game. Weve talked about it a lot, but this homestand was big for us. We wanted to pick up as many points as we could. We did a good job tonight closing it out, and now our job is to take it on the road and continue that brand of hockey weve been building towards.The Hurricanes will not catch the Maple Leafs by surprise.I dont need to be reminded, I watch the league pretty close, Maple Leafs coach Mike Babcock said. I have a pretty good handle on that. I watched (Carolina) last night, too, and thought they were outstanding. It will be really tight tomorrow, they can really skate, they have a good, young team, the back end moves and the goalie (Cam Ward) is playing well. So well have our hands full.Ward had a 1.41 goals-against average on the five-game homestand and a .947 save percentage.But every team in the league is taking drastic steps so our guys have to take big steps and you have to have the youth growth as well, Babcock said. Not only do they have to be better structurally as a team, they have to get better as players.The Maple Leafs are coming off a 2-1 loss to the Canadiens in Montreal on Saturday and are expected to use the same lineup on Tuesday.I think were happy with the way we battled there at the end, Maple Leafs defenseman Morgan Rielly said. We were right there the whole game, one shot difference. To hang around that long and keep it that close is good, but at the end of the day you want to be able to get one at the end to tie it up and get the point, maybe two. Moving forward theres some positives we can take away from it, but that being said, after a loss, theres always stuff you can build off.Our young guys have got to figure out youre not scoring off the rush, youve got to score off the cycle, Babcock said. 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Auriemma had that.But Connecticut didnt have a Taurasi this time. And in Kelsey Mitchell, Ohio State did.In the end it didnt much matter. The result was the same as the previous 84 games. Connecticut came, it saw, it conquered.Mitchell put on an All-American show with 19 points in the first half, a total that might have doubled if degree of difficulty mattered on the same court Taurasi, Maya Moore and Breanna Stewart each commanded. Connecticut nonetheless sent the crowd home happy with an 82-63 win.Were maximizing what we have right now, Auriemma said of his new-look team after four consecutive titles. Ten-and-0, we beat some pretty good teams. Weve taken advantage of what we have and weve tried to hide what we dont have.Set against the backdrop of the states capital city, with its downtown that changes only upon the closest of inspection, there is a certain sameness to basketball in Connecticut. Two years to the day before Mondays win, the Huskies beat a pretty good DePaul team by 34 points. That came not quite two weeks after a win at Notre Dame in the rare game against a higher ranked foe.Sound familiar?Six years ago to the day, the Huskies beat Ohio State by 31 points in Madison Square Garden. That also happened to be Connecticuts 88th win in a row, the same number of consecutive wins as the UCLA mens team once put together for John Wooden decades before.The more things change ...So when these Huskies, despite air balls from their two leading scorers on the opening two shots, jumped to a 19-7 lead at the XL Center, it was a Bill Murray in Punxsutawney kind of vibe. But by the time Mitchell hit a high-arcing 3-pointer to beat the first-quarter buzzer, a shot she launched from several steps beyond the 3-point line and watched with a follow-through held a few extra beats for style, Ohio State was in the midst of what would be an 11-0 run.The early Huskies run that so often finishes opponents didnt finish the Buckeyes. Every time the Huskies tried to pull away in the second quarter, Mitchell reeled them back in. It is the sheer audaciousness with which she tries to score that is mesmerizing. Step-back jumpers become jump-back. Drives become dances, Mitchell waiting, bouncing for a sliver to appear and then hurling her body into the smallest of openings. Just 2-for-14 in a foul-plagued game against the Huskies a season earlier, she drew a seasons worth of oohs and aahs from the stands.Shes impossible to guard, Auriemma said. Theres no shot she wont take, cant make, it seems like.Very good players have put up big numbers against Connecticut this season -- Baylors Alexis Jones and Florida States Imani Wright among them. And without Stewart around, you could make a case on talent that Notre Dames Brianna Turner or Baylors Nina Davis was the best player on the court when their teams played the Huskies. But it has been a long time, at least four years, since the best individual talent was so clearly not in a Connecticut uniform. That was different from years past.We knew that we had to make more stops, Katie Lou Samuelson said of the halftime message regarding Mitchell. But we knew overall that one player wouldnt beat us and we would have to play as a team and try and help out as much as we could whoever was guarding her. We just tried to make her take tough shots. Shes really good at making those, but that wass our game plan.dddddddddddd It worked better in the second half. I think we amped up the pressure a little bit and our help defense was really good.Mitchell more than once in the first half got a step on Kia Nurse, the kind of thing that feels as if it happens more like once a month to the Canadian Olympian and shut-down defender. So it was that Mitchell found herself shadowed by Crystal Dangerfield for much of the second half, the freshman not asked to shut down the All-American but make her work far from the basket while help from Gabby Williams, Nurse or others waited nearby.Mitchell scored just four points in the second half.She scored two points in the third quarter. Samuelson and Napheesa Collier combined for 25 points in the same span. Mitchell wasnt even the games high scorer. That distinction went to Collier with 27 points. Samuelson was next with 26 points. The same two players who began the game with air balls were ruthless in outscoring Ohio State in the second half all on their own.When Ohio State turned the ball over, Connecticut capitalized, turning 19 turnovers into 28 points. When the ball moved in half-court sets, it found its way into Samuelsons hands at the 3-point line or Colliers hands inside. They have scored as many points through 10 games as almost any pair of Connecticut players ever. But those points are the final product of an assembly line that involves every player on the court. It is the way every Connecticut team plays.Were held to a really high standard, Collier said. Not just basketball-wise because they understand youre going to make mistakes. Theyre not asking us to be perfect. But the intensity level that we have to be at and the level of focus that we need is just a lot different than I think at other places, certainly what Ive experienced.She isnt alone in that sentiment. Ohio State has now played Baylor, Connecticut and South Carolina this season, not to mention reigning national runner-up Syracuse. The gap in talent between the Huskies and the pack might have closed. But there is still a tangible efficiency gulf.They dont seem to miss a beat, McGuff said. Every possession theyre moving the ball, theyre executing, theyre cutting. They just do that better than anybody else in the country. They execute what they want to do better than the rest of us. And thats really where were all trying to catch them.And therein is the real essence of one of Auriemmas most famous lines. It wasnt just that Connecticut had the best player on the court when it had Taurasi (or Moore or Stewart in the years that followed). It is why Auriemma said Monday he doesnt believe any one player, no matter how good, will beat his team.Diana made everybody around her 10 times better than they were, Auriemma said. Thats why it didnt matter who we put out on the floor, we were going to win because, one, shes going to make every big shot; two, when youre open youre going to get the ball and; three, her will.So yeah, if we had to play against Diana, Id say theres one player out there that can beat us by themselves. But she never tried to win the game by herself.Baylor, Florida State, Notre Dame, Ohio State and Texas have now tried to solve the riddle. Maryland and South Carolina will get their shot soon enough.Were not going to win every single game for the rest of eternity, Auriemma said. Were going to get our ass beat by somebody.It didnt happen Monday, which made Dec. 19 feel much as it usually does in the Nutmeg State. 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