The Canes clearly didn't have the easiest path to a championship. It would take the Canes playing the Devils in the first round again to make it the easiest path.
Necas costs $380K more against the cap next season than Stankoven and Blake combined. Not a knock on Necas, just an illustration of the work Tulsky & Co. have done.
Rod Brind'Amour captained the Hurricanes to the Stanley Cup in 2006.
Tonight, he won it again as their coach.
He's just the seventh person in NHL history—and the first since Toe Blake in 1956—to win the Cup with the same franchise as both a player and a coach.
@emanningwrites@Patrick_Puff If KK does end up packing up after this year, at least this would be a decent consolidation for his tumultuous years in Raleigh
Seems pretty good. Unfortunately, we can only focus on one top winger leaving a Canadian team in free agency and immediately flipping their playoff past on its head at a time