The Carolina Hurricanes are a confusing hockey club.
As I said in an article the other day, there are two possible categories that each NHL team falls into: the “win now” phase and the “rebuild” phase. I also pointed out that no team is constantly in one category or the other and constantly fluctuates between each category.
But the Hurricanes haven’t really followed that theory. After winning the Stanley Cup in 2005-06 for the first time in franchise history, the Canes suffered a sharp drop. They have only been back to the Stanley Cup Playoffs once since their victory, being in 2008-09 when they lost in the Conference Finals.