It’s the final week of the NHL season and the Carolina Hurricanes are in the middle of a race for one of the final Wild Card playoff spots. Yes, this is stressful — but above all else, it’s fun. If you told me in December that this hockey team would be challenging for a Wild Card spot in April, I’d look at you like you’re crazy. But here we are!
The team has had a tough go of it lately against some of the best teams in the Eastern Conference. We knew that the brutal March schedule was going to catch up to the club eventually, and it unfortunately happened just as competing teams picked up steam.