Here we are, in the second week of April, and the Carolina Hurricanes again are holding their end-of-season interviews.
The players will be available to the media at PNC Arena. Owner Tom Dundon will speak. The Hurricanes say coach Bill Peters will have a press conference “later in the week.”
What will be said after missing the Stanley Cup playoffs for a ninth straight year? Predictably, something like:
— “Disappointing we didn’t get in, but I do think we did make progress. There are things we still need to fix but maybe not as daunting a task as we were looking at in previous years.