As the Carolina Hurricanes gather in Raleigh on Thursday, just hours before another hurricane is set to crash into the shores of North Carolina, they will begin their training camp perhaps with more questions than they have had in the last several seasons. These questions are not necessarily indicative of a team that will be less competitive, though; the Canes enter the season with renewed high expectations, but these questions represent a bit of a refreshing change for a roster that quickly had gotten stale over the past few seasons.
With those changes, jobs will be in play during September and into the season’s first month, as new head coach Rod Brind’Amour attempts to put together a winner in his maiden voyage as the Canes’ bench boss.