Three Changes the Carolina Hurricanes Should Make If Play Resumes

While the return of NHL action remains unclear, the Carolina Hurricanes should prepare accordingly with some new strategies to implement.

It has been over two months now since the Carolina Hurricanes have seen the ice. As it stands the team is in the first wildcard. We have no idea if the season will return or not, but if it does the team needs to make a few tweaks to ensure their success moving forward.

Now, I know what you are thinking; we have all our hurt players back (with the exception of Dougie Hamilton) we should be golden. While we have already mentioned how the break is incredible for the injured players and having Rod Brind’Amour as the Head Coach will give this team an advantage upon return, these few changes won’t hurt.

We still have no idea what the playoffs will look like. Will they be expanded if they shorten the regular season? There is even a possibility to shrink the playoff field in efforts to shorten the playoff run and try to get next season prepared.

What we do know is that the NHL wants to do something to try and take some lessons learned and apply it to next season where they will try and play a full season properly. We will just have to wait and see what it will look like.

But for the sake of this article, let’s pretend that the season is planning on being continued regularly with a regular playoff field. What can the Carolina Hurricanes do to assure that they don’t lose their playoff spot and perhaps move up the standings?