Elliotte Friedman

The Hurricanes, for the second time in the franchise's history, are Stanley Cup champions.

Yeah, yeah.

Well, especially because, I mean, to your point, as the series went on, it became clearer and clearer that if they were to win, Jordan Stahl was to be the favorite.

But, you know, even after two games, whatever, if you're looking at it and you thought, OK, Carolina wins the Cup, who's your pick?

And that was my exact feeling.

Like, is that not...

true to what the Hurricanes are where they're for a long stretches, there wasn't an obvious one.

Like you think about the Stankhoven line, round one against Ottawa, completely dominant.

You know, Seth Jarvis makes a big play in the Philadelphia series to tie the game in game two to set up Taylor Hall to be the overtime hero and have them off and running then.

Jordan Stahl has a moment against Montreal, but there's a whole multitude of factors of guys delivering when it counted.

Svechnikov, the overtime winner.

Ehlers had an overtime winner that series.

And then Jordan Stahl does his thing in the final.

Like it was, though offensively, you can't have everybody contributing at once, but everyone had a say in where they ultimately got to.

And that's been what they've been about since this journey all started for them.

Absolutely.

And, Elliot, I was reminded the other day of –

Last year, they lose to Florida in the third round.

And remember the exit interview?

Sebastian Ajo, almost in a way, challenged Eric Tolsky and the front office and talked about maybe this is the offseason where we go out and find a piece then instead of throwing a Hail Mary at the deadline.