The Carolina Hurricanes are the best team in the league if you remove any games played between October 14th and December 30th. Recently they have been playing like it, having gone 16-5-1 since they rang in the New Year by scoring an empty netter with Andrei Svechnikov, literally.
A win tonight not only gives the Canes another chance to get back into the playoffs, but also accomplish a feat that hasn’t been accomplished by the team since the 07-08 season. That’s well over a decade ago. But this isn’t the same team that got swept by the Rangers last season – this team is a “bunch of jerks” that have taken the league by storm in the second half.