The Last Days Poll

[The Other Colbert]

With the playoffs now out of reach, it's time to reflect on the season:

The Hurricanes looked very promising before the season began, with aquiring many players during the offseason. But this didn't play out the way JR or the fans could have imagined, with many untimely injuries and lack of effort... the Hurricanes fell into a hole that only a miracle could fix.

The second half of the season:

The Hurricanes went 22-13-3 which is one of the best in the league. Eric Staal was promoted to captain and the team followed suite. Many young players began to emerge and show promise (Peters, Sutter, and McBain). The team has publicly stated that they are going younger and developing many prospects. It's amazing how this team completely turned around and became one of the hottest teams in the league. All this makes next season look somewhat promising.

With all this being said, would you rather have the Hurricanes drop their last 3 games for a better draft pick or would you rather them play spoiler?

[Goosfraba21]

I would have to say draft pick because playing spoiler doesn't make the team any better.

[DirtyMagic97]

It's hard to tell a bunch of young guys not to try as hard. I say play the best you can.

[The Other Colbert]

It's hard to tell a bunch of young guys not to try as hard. I say play the best you can.

Yeah I voted for the better draft pick, but I think with this young team lead by Staal... they're devoted to being winners.

[DirtyMagic97]

Yeah I voted for the better draft pick, but I think with this young team lead by Staal... they're devoted to being winners.

Ideally we would try as hard as possible and lose haha.

[Mesmer]

There's not great top end talent in this draft anyways. Play on, play hard, and come back next year ready to take the division.

I think I voted for the better draft pick though,

[The Other Colbert]

Ideally we would try as hard as possible and lose haha.

Solution: Start Legace

[Mesmer]

Genius.

[The Other Colbert]

Well tonight they are destroying the lightening and another rookie, Bowman, has his first 2 NHL goals.

[merchman567]

its clear Legace isnt the answer for backup... he looks like he has injury issues.

[Superadiabatic]

We ought to play to win ... next year. Let's experiment with the talent we have and give the younger players more game experience.

Everyone should play hard, we should cheer hard (we owe them that at least, they played hard and won a lot of games to get us back in the hunt even when we were in the cellar ... I am amazed that we were not mathematically eliminated until nearly the very end of the season). But winning the last couple of games isn't the priority now, winning them all next year is.