Carolina Hurricanes
CAROLINA HURRICANES NEWS CLIPPINGS • May 13, 2021 Hurricanes, Predators have hockey history, all the way back to 1998 By Chip Alexander The Canes lost to the Boston Bruins in five games in the opening round of the 1999 Stanley Cup playoffs. Chiasson It was Oct. 13, 1998. The game had ended, the Carolina tragically would die in a traffic accident after the team Hurricanes were angry about it, and it was time to write. returned from Boston following Game 5. “Second verse, same as the first. Only worse. ...” the News & Time passed. The Canes won the Stanley Cup in 2006. They Observer reported. had other playoff teams in 2001, 2002 and 2009, reaching The Hurricanes, in their second game of the 1998-99 the 2002 Stanley Cup finals, and are making their third season, had lost to the Nashville Predators, 3-2, in what was consecutive playoff appearance this season under head then called Nashville Arena. coach Rod Brind’Amour. Beginning their second season in North Carolina, the The Predators reached the 2017 Stanley Cup finals, losing to Hurricanes were looking for a strong start. Instead, they the Pittsburgh Penguins, They won the Presidents’ Trophy allowed three third-period goals in a 4-4 tie with Tampa Bay for the first time in 2018, then were beaten by the WInnipeg in their opener in Greensboro, then followed with the loss to Jets in the second round of the playoffs. the Predators. Until this year, the Hurricanes and Predators have never Why worse? The Predators were an NHL expansion team in gone head-to-head in the playoffs.
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