With the 56-game 2021 NHL schedule now out, the Hurricanes know who they’ll play and when they’ll play in a regular season that can’t start soon enough.
Things will be quite different for the Hurricanes, and every NHL team, as Carolina joins a new division missing some traditional foes like the Capitals, Penguins, Islanders and Flyers. In this new division, the Hurricanes will face off with three teams from the Western Conference and only one team coming along from the Metropolitan Division (Columbus).
To make things even weirder, Carolina will only play games against the seven other teams in this new Central Division.