The Carolina Hurricanes enter the 2019-2020 season hot off the heels of a trip to the Eastern Conference Finals and an outstanding off season. Here are three bold statements for the next year.

The 2018-2019 NHL season for the Carolina Hurricanes was bold. If you told people that that team would make it to the playoffs and end the drought, there would have been a few believers, but if you said they would close out round one by taking on the former Stanley Cup Champions and beating them in a game seven double overtime thriller, there would have been serious doubt.

If you doubled down and told people that this team would have gone on to sweep the next team and make it to the Eastern Conference finals, they would have laughed you out of the establishment. But that was our year. We crawled out from the basement of the metro. We made impossible trades. We made history.

Now with the next season is coming upon us, its time to make our own bold predictions for what may or may not happen. There are a lot of easy predictions to make. The team is most likely to add on to their excellent season from last year. After all the roster is much better after the additions of Eric Haula and Ryan Dzingel.

So what are my bold predictions for next season? Well for one, I think there will be a major trade by the deadline, but it wont be what we expect. At all. An unexpected player will have an offensive explosion. However, most interesting of all, my biggest prediction will involve the team’s playoff positioning.