Darren Dreger

Their prediction is there will be a large number of O'Neal Carolina Hurricanes jerseys in the building for Game 5.

There has been throughout the playoffs.

And I don't recall the gentleman's name, O, but he said that he sent you a bobblehead, a Jeff O'Neal bobblehead, a while back, a long time ago.

So fake news, or did this actually happen?

Yeah.

It's an ongoing story, obviously, and what we know is what we saw.

We saw Brandon Bussie in the starters net for the Hurricanes as part of the morning skate.

Rod Brennamore, in fact, you guys probably heard and saw the sound bite as part of his availability.

He at least updated us on Freddie Anderson's status.

The fact that Freddie was on the ice prior to the Hurricanes morning skate.

And he says, look, everybody is available.

Now, this doesn't mean anything.

but went in the visitor's room, the Vegas Golden Knights, of course, and every team has that lineup whiteboard in their dressing room, and they have Brandon Bussey starting and Freddie Anderson backing up.

Whether or not that's real doesn't matter, but Brendan Moore did say that Anderson was available, but we believe that Bussey gets the nod.

Well, for the most part it is.

They're not being as blunt as saying we are going to win the Stanley Cup, but I think you're right.

Just based on the high level of execution that we saw from the Hurricanes in that regard through the first three rounds of the Stanley Cup playoffs.

So they've gotten away from their identity.

It hasn't worked through four games entirely, but it's a best of three now, right?

And one thing they did talk about was, and it was actually Taylor Hall who stated, just defiantly said, look, this game is going to be different.