With all the rumors, speculation, and uncertainty surrounding the Carolina Hurricanes in May, the 2018-19 season may look like a lost cause.
But it isn’t.
Nine consecutive years of missing the playoffs is something that the Hurricanes have to make good on this upcoming season, and that’s what new owner Tom Dundon and his band of merry men (general manager Don Waddell, assistant GMs Mike Vellucci, Rick Dudley and Paul Krepelka, and others) is set on doing - accelerating the rebuild.
The thing is, they don’t really have to accelerate (or do) anything. With losing comes high draft picks and with high draft picks come good, young, controllable hockey players.