RALEIGH — Seventeen springs ago, Bates Battaglia donned an unlucky number, became a clutch playoff performer, and parlayed that career into becoming a fixture on Glenwood South and a reality-TV show champion.
The way Warren Foegele is playing, he might well have an ownership interest in Lucky B’s by the time June rolls around.
There aren’t many hockey players willing to tempt the sport’s ever-present gods by taking on number 13, but the Carolina Hurricanes seem to have anything but bad luck with that supposedly cursed number.
Players wearing number 13 have played a part in two lengthy Canes playoff runs of old.