RALEIGH — No one around the Carolina Hurricanes will ever admit to being completely happy with how this season turned out. After all, as Justin Williams told the media yesterday as the players made their year-end rounds, only one team wins their final game and goes away completely satisfied; 30 others have to-do lists of varying lengths that they want to address in the hopes that they’ll end the following season as that one team.
But that doesn’t mean that there’s a recognition of when things went well, and as Hurricanes coach Rod Brind’Amour and general manager Don Waddell met the media Tuesday at PNC Arena, the prevailing mindset around the club is satisfaction with what the team achieved, but a knowledge that the job isn’t done.