Reasons to Root for the Carolina Hurricanes Winning the NHL President’s Trophy for Most Points in a Season
March 26, 2024
Reasons to Root for the Carolina Hurricanes Winning the NHL President’s Trophy for Most Points in a Season
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Carolina has never won the President’s Trophy. Last season Carolina was 2nd with 113 points to Boston’s 135. The season before Carolina was 3rd with 116 points to Florida’s 122. Carolina was 3rd with 80 points to Colorado’s 82 for the 2020-21 56 game season. In Carolina’s first Cup year 2006 they were 4th with 112 points to Detroit’s 124.
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The franchise has had 43 NHL seasons when including the Hartford years. The only two teams to exist longer without finishing as the league’s best are Los Angeles with 55 and New Jersey with 48. Arizona matches at 43. Anaheim, Winnipeg, Columbus, Minnesota, Vegas, and Seattle are the other teams without.
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Some fans wrongly believe winning the President’s Trophy is a curse that prevents a Stanley Cup win. Of course there is no curse. The main threats of going after the most points would be using up too much energy or ending a season without a challenge to prepare for the playoffs. Neither applies to Carolina this season.
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As great as Carolina has been recently on the road, home ice is a true advantage in the NHL. The 2006 Game 7 Cup victory was at home. The Canes have had 11 of 15 playoff series wins with home ice and 5 of 9 playoff series losses were without. Granted home ice didn’t prevent the last three Canes exits, it’s unlikely more road games would have helped.
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Currently the Metro winner would play Tampa Bay why the Metro 2nd seed would play Philidelphia. The Flyers would probably be considered the most likely to lose in the first round and no one wants to play the Lightning. Wanting the “easy” first round opponent often backfires however. The Canes avenging the previous series loss to the 3-time Conference champion 2-time Cup winning Lightning would be as satisfying as a defeat to the Flyers would be devistating. I suspect Philidelphia would likely be a more physically grueling series than Tampa Bay.
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A final reason to root for a Carolina President’s Trophy is prestige. It’s of minor importance and several orders of magnitude less significant than winning the Stanley Cup, but it would be nice to eliminate the ability of other fanbases to say the Canes have never finished a season as the league’s best team.
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Reminder: Predicting late season games is impossible as “tougher” opponents might be resting players due to having nothing to play for while “easier” opponents might be more desperate to win.
The research and facts are unassailable. I just don’t want to see Vasileskiy and Kucherov in the first round.
> Some fans wrongly believe winning the President’s Trophy is a curse that prevents a Stanley Cup win.
The problem is you can’t talk about this without twits talking about curses and jinxes. A lot people either don’t like it or can’t make a narrative around the Canes WITHOUT them being an underdog.
Now it actually IS exciting that for once the President Trophy race is actually legit competitive with a good 6 or 7 teams you can honestly say have a shot at it.
I’m certainly not going to be mad if they win it, because they prolly would have to win all the remaining games and I would love that. If we don’t win but are playing well, I’m fine with that too. Everyone is a tough out in the playoffs to get to the Cup we would eventually have to beat either the Rangers, Panthers or Bruins.
I’d like for the Canes to avoid the Flyers if at all possible. Not that I think the Flyers can beat the Canes, but I could see that series being unnecessarily long and brutally physical. Regardless, it’ll be a bloodbath in the East and whoever the opponents end up being will all be tough.
I am supremely more confident in this team overcoming their postseason scoring demons after the additions of Kuznetsov and Guentzel, especially Guentzel who is a playoff annihilator.
My only concern at this point is if Svech does not regain his form prior to playoffs that he won’t have it this postseason either. He is in a major confidence funk and it is affecting his play. He’s my favorite player and I hate admitting it, but he’s been off to bad the last couple week. The silver lining there is the firepower is apparent and it seems Aho, Jarvis and Necas are all on top of their game and made the necessary improvements this season to put Carolina over the top.
Most of all: STAY HEALTHY and LETS GO CANES
I will pass on that, I don’t want the curse !!
To me, it’s all about goaltending. I don’t care where the Canes finish the regular season, I’d just like to avoid Vasilevskiy. I know he’s had an off year, but he could clearly still get hot (plus Sergachev will be back soon). I’d rather take my chances with whomever Philly sticks in net or Lindgren with the Caps, even though he’s been good.
Given the choice between TB and PHI, am I crazy for considering TB? I know they are the better team, but I am also worried about the possibility of sweeping Philadelphia (or winning 4-1) and having a longer break. Teams that sweep seem to get swept the next round frequently. I just think it would be more likely TB would go 6 games and not have that long break that seems to screw up the team’s rhythm.
Seven teams are within a point or two at the top. Still a crapshoot who wins it and could even end up with three or four teams tied at the end of season at the top. I guess ROW’s are still the top tiebreaker.
Might just be my dumb brain but I’m having trouble understanding the diagram above
Go for it and then go win the fucking double with a 16 win playoff run
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Carolina has never won the President’s Trophy. Last season Carolina was 2nd with 113 points to Boston’s 135. The season before Carolina was 3rd with 116 points to Florida’s 122. Carolina was 3rd with 80 points to Colorado’s 82 for the 2020-21 56 game season. In Carolina’s first Cup year 2006 they were 4th with 112 points to Detroit’s 124.
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The franchise has had 43 NHL seasons when including the Hartford years. The only two teams to exist longer without finishing as the league’s best are Los Angeles with 55 and New Jersey with 48. Arizona matches at 43. Anaheim, Winnipeg, Columbus, Minnesota, Vegas, and Seattle are the other teams without.
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Some fans wrongly believe winning the President’s Trophy is a curse that prevents a Stanley Cup win. Of course there is no curse. The main threats of going after the most points would be using up too much energy or ending a season without a challenge to prepare for the playoffs. Neither applies to Carolina this season.
​
As great as Carolina has been recently on the road, home ice is a true advantage in the NHL. The 2006 Game 7 Cup victory was at home. The Canes have had 11 of 15 playoff series wins with home ice and 5 of 9 playoff series losses were without. Granted home ice didn’t prevent the last three Canes exits, it’s unlikely more road games would have helped.
​
Currently the Metro winner would play Tampa Bay why the Metro 2nd seed would play Philidelphia. The Flyers would probably be considered the most likely to lose in the first round and no one wants to play the Lightning. Wanting the “easy” first round opponent often backfires however. The Canes avenging the previous series loss to the 3-time Conference champion 2-time Cup winning Lightning would be as satisfying as a defeat to the Flyers would be devistating. I suspect Philidelphia would likely be a more physically grueling series than Tampa Bay.
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A final reason to root for a Carolina President’s Trophy is prestige. It’s of minor importance and several orders of magnitude less significant than winning the Stanley Cup, but it would be nice to eliminate the ability of other fanbases to say the Canes have never finished a season as the league’s best team.
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Reminder: Predicting late season games is impossible as “tougher” opponents might be resting players due to having nothing to play for while “easier” opponents might be more desperate to win.
The research and facts are unassailable. I just don’t want to see Vasileskiy and Kucherov in the first round.
> Some fans wrongly believe winning the President’s Trophy is a curse that prevents a Stanley Cup win.
I always get a kick out of this. People think because winning the President’s Trophy isn’t a guarantee of winning the Cup that it’s a “curse.” But if you look at the numbers, [the top seeded team is the most frequent winner](https://www.reddit.com/r/hockey/comments/umqqge/heres_hoping_my_graphs_are_a_little_bit_more/). Seems obvious but apparently to many it’s not!
The problem is you can’t talk about this without twits talking about curses and jinxes. A lot people either don’t like it or can’t make a narrative around the Canes WITHOUT them being an underdog.
Now it actually IS exciting that for once the President Trophy race is actually legit competitive with a good 6 or 7 teams you can honestly say have a shot at it.
I’m certainly not going to be mad if they win it, because they prolly would have to win all the remaining games and I would love that. If we don’t win but are playing well, I’m fine with that too. Everyone is a tough out in the playoffs to get to the Cup we would eventually have to beat either the Rangers, Panthers or Bruins.
I’d like for the Canes to avoid the Flyers if at all possible. Not that I think the Flyers can beat the Canes, but I could see that series being unnecessarily long and brutally physical. Regardless, it’ll be a bloodbath in the East and whoever the opponents end up being will all be tough.
I am supremely more confident in this team overcoming their postseason scoring demons after the additions of Kuznetsov and Guentzel, especially Guentzel who is a playoff annihilator.
My only concern at this point is if Svech does not regain his form prior to playoffs that he won’t have it this postseason either. He is in a major confidence funk and it is affecting his play. He’s my favorite player and I hate admitting it, but he’s been off to bad the last couple week. The silver lining there is the firepower is apparent and it seems Aho, Jarvis and Necas are all on top of their game and made the necessary improvements this season to put Carolina over the top.
Most of all: STAY HEALTHY and LETS GO CANES
I will pass on that, I don’t want the curse !!
To me, it’s all about goaltending. I don’t care where the Canes finish the regular season, I’d just like to avoid Vasilevskiy. I know he’s had an off year, but he could clearly still get hot (plus Sergachev will be back soon). I’d rather take my chances with whomever Philly sticks in net or Lindgren with the Caps, even though he’s been good.
Given the choice between TB and PHI, am I crazy for considering TB? I know they are the better team, but I am also worried about the possibility of sweeping Philadelphia (or winning 4-1) and having a longer break. Teams that sweep seem to get swept the next round frequently. I just think it would be more likely TB would go 6 games and not have that long break that seems to screw up the team’s rhythm.
Seven teams are within a point or two at the top. Still a crapshoot who wins it and could even end up with three or four teams tied at the end of season at the top. I guess ROW’s are still the top tiebreaker.
Might just be my dumb brain but I’m having trouble understanding the diagram above
Go for it and then go win the fucking double with a 16 win playoff run