Kyle Bukauskas

Seven straight wins to open the Stanley Cup playoffs for the Carolina Hurricanes.

And I don't think any of us during the regular season were looking at the Metro Division as

as a juggernaut per se, but it had been clear almost wire to wire that the Hurricanes stood above the rest through 82 games.

That hasn't changed through the playoffs.

You cannot pick your opponents, but the Hurricanes have taken care of their own business on the verge of a second consecutive sweep to begin their playoff run.

That was where the game was in the balance and was no longer after that moment in my mind.

I mean, they may have one in Martone.

And it's funny you say that, you know, as they're struggling to find some results against Carolina.

If you look at, you know, the last two times that the Hurricanes have reached the third round and both times come up short against Florida.

Haven't you kind of felt the same way about them in those series?

Yeah.

Like needed another big time game breaker offensively.

I know they went out and got Ehlers this summer and

And he scores again on Thursday.

So they made the trade for Gensel a couple years ago, tried to re-sign him.

It didn't work out there.

But they've tried to change that a little bit while not losing who they are as a team.

But you get later and later in the playoffs.

It is a great...

a great test of where your team really does stack up against the best, you know, because I do understand that, yeah, sometimes the top guys, they cancel each other out.