After Taking One Look At The Carolina Hurricanes' Training Camp Schedule, I Am Declaring Them 2019 Stanley Cup Champions
Earlier today I wrote a blog about how if I could make one prediction for the upcoming NHL season, it’s that Rod Brind’Amour was going to make at least one player cry before the end of the year.
Well, my friends, I hope you put those bets in while you could still make a decent chunk of change because the line has moved to -1000 that somebody is crying before the season even opens up. The Canes put out their training camp schedule today and it consists of two things and two things only (minus the mandatory physicals). Those two things are grit, grind, rinse and repeat. Grit and Grind. Grind and Grit. Grit and Grind. Grind and Grit. Listen up, snowflakes. You can put together a pretty decent 82-game season if you just put in the bare minimum. It may not get you into the playoffs or anything but if you want to be a bubble team that wins some games and loses some games, by all means go ahead and just skate through life without putting your balls on the line. But if you want to be great? If you want to play through the end of April? Through the end of May? If you want to win the last game of the 2018-19 NHL season? It’s going to take a fuck ton of Grit, and it’s going to take an equal amount of Grind. I think Rod the Bod knows a thing or two about how it’s done.
You think analytics gets you to hoist Lord Stanley’s Cup over your head? Get the hell out of here. Grit and Grind for 60+ minutes every single fucking night. I’m expecting a massive turnaround from the Canes this year. Or at the very least, I really look forward to blogging videos of guys throwing up on the ice all throughout training camp. And I can guarantee you that the first thing these guys see when they walk into the rink is a couple of trash cans already lined up at center ice. Bet they won’t even see a puck until October. Rod the Bod. What a savage.