BOSTON — Tomorrow night, the Carolina Hurricanes will play their 95th game since the start of the regular season. If the Eastern Conference Final goes to six games, the Hurricanes will hit the century mark for the first time since 2009, when they played exactly 100. Only once before, in 2006, did the franchise ever hit that mark, totaling 107 games on their way to the Stanley Cup.
That doesn’t include training camp or preseason games, and for a team that is in large part making its first-ever playoff journey, it’s entirely understandable if the Hurricanes would be fatigued at this point, eight months after their season began.