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Metropolitan Division Preview: Rebuilding Carolina Hurricanes a Non-Factor this Season

By Patrick Comia

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This season, it will be 10 years since the Carolina Hurricanes won the Stanley Cup. And since their championship run, the well has run dry for the team.

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    • After their Cup win in the 2005-2006 season, the Hurricanes have seen the postseason once. In 2009, they made it all the way to the Eastern Conference Finals, where they lost to the eventual Stanley Cup Champions Pittsburgh Penguins in a four-game sweep.

    Raleigh has seen dark days, and long for the franchise to resurface into a winner.

    Despite having the Staal brothers (Eric, Jordan, and occasional call-up Jared from their AHL farm system in Charlotte Checkers), Jeff Skinner, Justin Faulk as mainstays, the team has been occupying the bottom of the Metropolitan Division the past two seasons, dating back to the NHL realignment in 2013.

    Needless to say, the Hurricanes have been looking up from the bottom, and teams have been blowing by them with ease.

    However, with new faces starting to make their marks like Ryan Murphy, Victor Rask, and Riley Nash, the future looks promising. It’s the waiting part that has Hurricanes fans antsy.

    Lets, take a closer and see what the Division and the Rangers could expect this season.

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