This time around, though, there are a lot of things to take from the 2015-2016 season that give the Hurricanes organization and their fanbase plenty of hope, and enough to give the rest of the NHL reasons to take notice.
The Canes started the season as a team no one took notice of. All talk was about UFAs Staal and Ward, and what the team would do in this stage of their rebuilding process. It didn’t start out well, with one of their new defensive leader additions in James Wisniewski going down with a season-ending knee injury on his very first shift of the season.