LAS VEGAS — The Carolina Hurricanes are two wins away from proving they made the right call in not upgrading in goal at the trade deadline.But they’re testing the limits of that decision in this Stanley Cup Final to be sure.Frederik Andersen went from Conn Smythe Trophy front-runner for Carolina before this series to scratched and not dressed for Game 4 Tuesday night after giving up 12 goals in three starts (.815 save percentage).Brandon Bussi was solid in Tuesday night’s 5-3 win, giving up three goals on 21 shots, after being absolutely terrific in relief of Andersen in Game 3.Why did Bussi get the start?“It was about a minute conversation with our goalie coach, he said Freddie needs a little break. OK. So we went with the other guy,” Hurricanes head coach Rod Brind’Amour explained after the game. “And if you’re going to give (Andersen) a break, you need to give him a break. So to me, him dressing and going through all that, that’s not really giving him a night off.”Brind’Amour wouldn’t commit to which goalie would start in Game 5 Thursday night, but it’s hard to believe he would steer away from the goalie who helped tie the series 2-2.But the mere fact Brind’Amour wasn’t in a position to commit publicly to his goalie for Game 5 illustrates the position they’re in right now. The Hurricanes might just pull this off — win a Stanley Cup without top-notch goaltending.Or, well, it might still cost them over the coming days.Three months ago, the March 6 trade deadline came and went without a trade for a goalie. The Hurricanes, league sources confirm, talked to Florida about Sergei Bobrovsky, but the Panthers weren’t going to give away the two-time Stanley Cup champion goalie. Florida was willing to move him but Carolina would have had to part with at least a second-round pick and I don’t believe the Canes were willing to go there. There was also a brief discussion about Jordan Binnington in St. Louis but that never got anywhere either.Two weeks after the trade deadline, I sat down for an interview with Hurricanes GM Eric Tulsky at the GM meetings and asked him about not trading for a goalie.“We tried, we try everywhere,” Tulsky said that day in March.Did he feel they had good enough goaltending to win a Cup?“We’ve got two goalies that we’re comfortable with and a third goalie who is working to coming back in time to help for the playoffs,” Tulsky said. “So again, we’re always going to be looking for opportunities to get better. But there aren’t many goalies where you look at and say it’s a clear step forward. If we had the opportunity to to add a top-five goalie in the league, it would have been a no-brainer. We would have put in whatever we had to, to get that done. Shy of doing that, there were a lot of players (goalies) available that we felt would have added some depth. But not made us measurably better than what we have. And that’s always the goal for us right now.”