The Carolina Hurricanes’ decade long playoff drought has been well documented. But with playoff hockey set to return to Edwards Mill Road, it’s worth taking a look back in time and finding out where some of the present day Hurricanes were during the last Raleigh playoff run in 2009.
Predictably, many of the answers involve “playing hockey.” But Justin Faulk admitted his team’s season was probably over. “We were probably done. Otherwise, I was just chilling in high school.”
Faulk said he was a junior in high school. His current defense partner, Brett Pesce, was in ninth grade and remembers some - ahem - personal growth, “2009?