Turns Out The Carolina Hurricanes Are Off To Such A Hot Start Because All The Boys Started Driving Pickup Trucks. Or Something Like That
It seems like every year for the past 5, the Carolina Hurricanes had been everybody’s “trendy” pick for a dark horse team to make the playoffs. And every year they’ve disappointed. This year, however, feels a little different. They have a new owner, a new GM, a new head coach, they’ve traded away some major faces in the organization, they have a new captain, and they have a new–albeit strange–winning ritual at home. There’s a lot of new going on in Carolina and at least for the first couple weeks of the season, it seems to be working. The boys dropped a game last night to Winnipeg but they’re 4-1-1 on the season so far.
So there are plenty of new things in Carolina that could be credited with this hot start for the Canes. But there’s one thing that really sticks out from the rest and could be the true difference maker between the Carolina Hurricanes of the past and the Carolina Hurricanes of today. Former Flyers’ draft pick and current color commentator for the Canes believes he’s put his finger on the culprit.
“When I pull in to the players’ lot before the game where they all park, or where the plane leaves…I’ve seen more pickup trucks than I’ve seen in many years. And that’s the sign of character guys and a good hockey team”
Let me hear ya say TRUCK YEAH!!!
Ain’t nothin’ better than a pair of blue jeans, a tattered up tshirt, an ice cold beer in one hand, the farmer’s daughter in the other, Jesus at the wheel, dog in the back, takin’ those ol’ dirt roads back home and then going to play a professional ice hockey game in the National Hockey League for the Carolina Hurricanes. Truck life, baby. You wouldn’t know shit about that know wouldya, you little city slicker?
I fucking love this take. Boil that take down to a liquid and inject that take straight into my veins. The Carolina Hurricanes are good this year because they have a lot of guys who drive pickup trucks. You think you win the Stanley Cup with a bunch of pussies who drive Mazda 3’s? Heck no. Ain’t nobody winning shit with that foreign made crap. We’re talkin’ built Ford tough. We’re talkin’ Dodge Ram 1500 Hemi. That’s what America is all about baby. Thomas Jefferson wasn’t driving no sissy little BMW when he was out writing the Declaration of Independence. He was at the wheel of a Chevy Silverado doing 3 things to ass–haulin’, kickin’ and slammin’. And that’s what we have with the 2018-19 Carolina Hurricanes. Just a bunch of truck guys. And it all starts at the top with head coach Rod Brind’Amour.
It doesn’t matter that these guys are professional athletes who get paid millions of dollars and don’t have to work blue collar jobs where a truck is functionally necessary to complete the tasks they need to complete. It doesn’t matter that these guys don’t even have to drive their own equipment bags back home with them after games or practices. If you’re not showing up to practice the next morning with a pickup and some truck nuts attached to the back, you’re skating your dick off for an hour straight. This is a man’s man type of team right here. American made vehicles, chewin’ tobacco and slapshots only around these parts. That’s how you win games, folks. It ain’t about fancy analytics. Corsi can’t win you hockey games and such. But a bunch of character dudes who pull up to the rink looking like they just put in a full day on the farm? Well shoot. Looks like the Stanley Cup is going to be calling Raleigh, NC home for a while. I just hope there’s a camouflage skin or something we can wrap around it because that cup is too dang sparkly right now. Need to toughen it up a little bit.