The Trend Line · 2026-27 · awaiting opening night

Carolina Hurricanes

State of the teamThe Hurricanes won the Stanley Cup, their second in franchise history and first since 2006. They closed out Vegas in six behind coach Rod Brind'Amour, Conn Smythe winner and captain Jordan Staal, and a deep group led by Sebastian Aho. They tore through the East, opening the playoffs 8-0 (the first team to do so since the 1984-85 Oilers) before handling Montreal in the conference final. After years of being stopped short — repeatedly in the conference final — Carolina finally broke through and ended a 20-year championship drought. Carolina will defend the Cup without goaltender Frederik Andersen, and after a costly near-miss: the Hurricanes traded for John Carlson's negotiating rights in June, could not sign him inside their exclusive window, and lost him to Tampa Bay. The new season starts tracking here at puck drop.
116
2021-22
113
2022-23
111
2023-24
99
2024-25
113
2025-26
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2026-27
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Team Points Pace

Cumulative standings points through each game of the season, one colour per year. The red line is this season. Toggle to season-total bars for the year-over-year story.

one colour per season · hover for game detail
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Goals For & Against

Offence and defence, by season or game by game. Lower is better on goals against.

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Player Production

Each column is a core player; each dot is one season. Red is this season. Toggle the metric; hover any dot for the full line.

red = current season · one colour per past year
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Ice Time Tracker

Who's getting more ice time? Average minutes per game, season by season — the clearest read on who's gaining, and losing, the coach's trust. Flip to power-play time to see who's on the top unit. Add any skater on the roster; click a name in the legend to hide his line.

Minutes per game, from official NHL ice-time data.
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Goaltending

Every goalie season, dot size scaled by games played.

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Team Engine

Under-the-hood numbers, season by season: faceoffs, possession (SAT% is what the analytics crowd calls Corsi; Fenwick is the same idea minus blocked shots — above 50% means this team controls play), special teams, and shot rates.

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Zone Time

Offensive-zone time is the why behind shot-attempt share (SAT%) above — a team that lives in the offensive zone out-attempts opponents. The line tracks how that's moved season by season; the bar is this year's split. Based on NHL player-tracking data.

No player-tracking zone data published for this team.
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