To quote a certain wise baboon from my favorite childhood movie, it is time. The Hurricanes’ 25th anniversary season starts for real tonight, and the team will rock its alternate anniversary threads for the first time.
The Canes will get things started against a Metropolitan Division foe in the Columbus Blue Jackets, and they’ll do so with a lineup that looks pretty similar to what Rod Brind’Amour iced throughout camp and in the preseason games.
Brent Burns makes his Hurricanes regular season debut alongside Jaccob Slavin, and Frederik Andersen will make his return to the net in a game that counts for the first time since suffering a season-ending injury at Colorado in April.