The Hurricanes have 51 games under their belt. They sit with a record of 23-20-8 and 54 points. The critical question now is, what are they going to do with the final 31 games, and will it be enough to make the playoffs?
I say emphatically ‘YES’.
I want to take you back to a “young and hungry” Hurricanes team at the start of the 2008-09 NHL season. They had lost some veteran players to retirement, another handful to trades, and almost a third of their team was brand new.They had just come off a disappointing season that saw them miss the playoffs again, and every indication was that this would be a rebuilding season.