Behind The Storm: Episode 2

Behind The Storm: Episode 2

forward number 20 [Applause] for number 48 Jordan 74 Jacob [Applause] your captain Jordan. Hello everyone. Welcome inside Lenovo Center. Game number one of 82 for the Carolina Hurricanes in this 202526 regular season. All right. Uh, what makes the culture here in Carolina unique compared to other places? What makes culture unique to Carolina? [Music] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] The net emptyers rubs it away. The Carolina Hurricanes have won the Stanley Cup. Congratulations to Jimmy Rutherford, Peter Lavlet, all the players on the Hurricanes. Rod Bindmore, I’m proud to present this to you. Carolina culture to me is I think what what our organization’s about. I think when when Rody took over, that was the one thing that he really wanted to change here was the culture. Keep each other in the fight. Keep each other in the fight. We play in their end. We stay above it. That’s all doing shift after shift. Give it everything we have. It’s our time. It’s our time again. We want to be the team that everybody knows you’re coming. See you on the schedule. know how we play. How’s always pissed off because oh, that team’s doing what we’re doing now. Doesn’t matter because it’s not about the one or two things that we do. It’s going to be about the thousand little things that we do. We We’re an organization right now that we’re I think we’re we’re moving in the right direction, but we need competitive here. We want What do you What’s the one thing you got to leave your be competitive? Every team has culture. It’s a big C word. They all have it. and throw it around like but I promise you we have to have the best culture and we do because of who we have in the room. That’s the magic. The magic is in what we’re all about. The message is same and I guess that’s the that’s kind of the part of the culture as well cuz you don’t uh you know he believes in it, we believe in it. That’s how we need to get this done and uh obviously keep working towards it. Uh Rod’s role in in shaping the culture here has been everything. I mean, when when he first came as head coach, he he completely changed it. Um, he set the standard for what for what it is to be a Carolina hurricane. Um, when he played and so, um, he he came back to that as as a coach as well and just, um, sets the example for us and, uh, he we we know what’s expected of us and so that that’s it makes our job easy cuz he he gives us the the plan and and we just have to go out and execute. It leads obviously by example as well. I think he’s in better shape than most of the players in the team. And on top of that, you know, he brings it every day and he always wants to get better and as a coach and and always wants obviously the best for for us. So, he’s he’s always ready and willing to to push us and it’s been fun to follow him and and lead with him. And uh he’s been uh for sure the the center of it all. For a team to transition from not making the playoffs year after year after year to be a perennial playoff team is is something I I don’t know. It just doesn’t happen. And I think you we got to look at one person that came in and started that and obviously that’s Rody. I’m talking about game you playing your whole life inside this board. It’s game whole life outside the side of take care of business. Make your best dial in focus. Shift at a time said a lot of people blood, sweat and tears and make this happen right all of you included. No one more. We have a trade to announce. Pittsburgh trades Jordan Stall to Carolina for Carolina’s first round pick number eight. Brandon Sutter and Brian Dumolan. It starts with your, you know, your leaders and we know who they are and it’s how they go about their business and go on and off the ice and it’s the standards and it’s what their expectations are and how they hold the group accountable to that. And I think we’ve got amazing people in those positions and I think that’s why our culture, you know, is topnotch. what makes culture is is people and how how people act and obviously we have uh really good people in that locker room and top to bottom I feel like every player’s bought in and obviously a coaching staff and so on and so on you’re trying to push us to to be to be better and be the best team and obviously that’s how you build the culture and Jordan stall obviously uh leading us uh from up up front congratulations Okay, I’ve been obviously looking for the opportunity uh to expand my role and um you know to be uh more of an elite player and um I know that uh you know the the opportunity is here and and obviously there is pressure and um you know I’m feeling uh um hopefully I can have a big uh big year and a big career here uh down in Carolina and and really um try to uh beat an elite player that I think I can Center alone. Jordan Star. He scores. It’s his first as a hurricane. Stevens in Scriven a save. Jordan Star scores. Walking in. He scores. Hey. Hey. What do you say? Jordan Stall and the Kings lead for the first time tonight. Jordan Stall the overtime winner. SP lead nothing up Hurricanes as Stall gets a chance and he scores. There’s a huge goal for the captain. Our final honore is someone whose talent and leadership has time and time again given all North Killians a winning hockey team to root for. Since 2019, last six years, he served as team captain and guided the Canes through several major playoff runs, including six consecutive trips and two conference finals. Jordan, we’re grateful for your leadership and service. Congratulate you on this award, and I am so eager to welcome you and your teammates here in June when you have hoisted the Stanley Cup. It’s unique in a way uh with just the people we have obviously from top to bottom. Um throughout this organization we people that care for one, people that are competitive and uh people that do it every day. So it’s kind of been uh built around that identity and and having the people here that live and breathe that every day uh makes it fun to go to work and uh and compete with your brothers. It’s probably one of the most important things that we’re all about, right? Like yes, we want to win a championship and be the best team out there, but there’s a way we go about doing it. Uh, if you had to describe this group in one word, what would it be and why? Caring. I mean, that’s why because that’s what it starts with. That’s what Rody’s brought in. U, that’s what the guys have been here have been doing. And you could sense it as soon as it’s a feeling. It’s hard to say when until you’re in that room and how uh the feeling is, but you you sense it right off the hop. And we know what the end goal is. And everybody’s bought into what we need to do. And like it’s it comes back to discipline and doing what you’re supposed to do when you’re supposed to do it, no matter how you feel. Find you find a way to just come to the rank and do the best you can and uh the rest take care of itself. Being here my whole career and seeing how it was the first couple years to compared to what these last seven, eight years have been. I think the difference is uh again just the care factor of how much care Rody has for us as players, but then also the care that we have for one another. It’s something that makes our group special. It’s something that truly shows that we’re all friends. And that’s what the Carolina culture means to me is just um the love that we have for one another. Work harder for the people you care about. And I think everybody in here cares about each other so much. So, I think that’s probably the quote that means the most to me cuz you walk through those doors and it’s our second family and you care about it so much and you want to do everything you can to win with them. [Music] [Applause] The buck was in the corner. [Applause] If you take one more penalty in practice, we’re going to have to start doing penalty shots. Yeah, it’s uh like I said, you’re you’re trying to build all those things. If you see someone not doing those things, it’s it’s just a matter of kind of steering the right direction. Obviously, uh the guys bought in so well and and Rody does a great job of of dialing everyone in when when stuff goes uh the wrong way, and I think uh it makes it easier for myself and uh the other leaders in the room to to hold everyone else accountable. The leaders of this team are special and they’re special for all the reasons I’ve always I’ve talked about over and over, but it’s more it’s they’re special because they’re I can count on them. They’re special because they do it right. They put the team first and they treat people the right way. When fans hear Carolina culture, what do you want them to feel? And here we go. The season is underway in Carolina. A lot of competition at center ice right now. Nikes worked it across. They score and Taylor Hall gets Carolina on the board this season. It’s one nothing Carolina. When fans hear Carolina culture, I want them to feel proud. I want to I want them to know the team that they’re watching on the ice is going to give it their all. That they’re they’re proud to put on a Carolina Hurricane sweater just as much as we are. [Music] Kes win a draw in the double zone. Chip back and they’ll score. Keandre Miller is first with the Hurricanes and they’re back up two to one. I want them to see every night us competing as hard as we can and I think that it’s something that they should be proud of and cheer for and I want our team to bring it every night no matter what. I think uh if they see uh Carolina culture, I think that’s what I hope to see. Bear traffic in front. Bear wars it in front. They score and it’s 43 Carolina with 243 left in the third. Well, I know they’re resilient. I know that this group’s been, you know, been through a lot. Obviously, I want the best for them. I want us to get over the hump and find that what they deserve. But they’re going to keep trying until it happens. And if it doesn’t, it doesn’t. But I know that they will keep pushing through. And so I don’t ever worry about what they’re thinking or how they’re going to go about their business cuz they know one way to do things. [Applause] [Music] Great job from um said before the game we did rope holders you guys you guys didn’t let go all game kept playing your off and then something would happen they get it bagged and you just kept with it um so proud of that going to do things a little differently on this After the game, I’ll come in and I’m going to do my thing. But I’m getting way too much air time on this. This is your guys’ team. So, how this is going to work now on I’m going to kick it off. Okay. And you talked about it before the game about rope holders. And so, I got, believe it or not, I brought brought a little rope. Oh, yeah. And so, I’m going to start it off and then we get it. Then the guy that got it last time is going to pass it on after the game. So, that’s how we do it. We did still make C5. sweatshirts this year. A little nicer. You guys know what this is all about. What we’re talking about before the game. Great first step tonight. So, I’m going to kick it off. Pretty obvious. A big man. Great way to step up. Great start and it’s great first step, guys. Great job. Finish. Have a fun. It’s about being a championship team after this year and that’s obviously the goal and you don’t start the culture by winning a championship. The culture has to be there first and hopefully uh you ask this question maybe next year and the Carolina culture means being a championship team.

Go Behind the Storm with the Carolina Hurricanes all season long as we give you an in-depth look at the team both on and off the ice. Episode 2 breaks down the meaning of Carolina Culture from the people who built it.

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