Ten months ago, nearly to the day, the Carolina Hurricanes played their final regular season game of the 2019-20 season at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, a 5-2 Hurricanes win over the Detroit Red Wings that clinched the Red Wings’ spot in the league basement, even if the season had played out to its planned conclusion.
The world has changed in remarkable ways since last March 10, yet here the Hurricanes are, starting the 2021 season in the same arena where their last season finished, the pandemic still raging and the NHL’s universe looking nothing like it did at this time last year.