RALEIGH — The questions were a bit different at this season’s Carolina Hurricanes media day. Gone were the questions about ending the team’s playoff drought. There was no intrigue about how a first-time head coach would handle the reins of his first season behind the bench.
Instead, the questions were of largely two themes: what the post-Justin Williams Hurricanes would look like, and how the playoff run of a season ago would change the approach to this season. There was success a year ago, to be sure, but the 2019-20 season has a different type of pressure: the pressure to turn that success into something more than fleeting.