{"id":1307036,"date":"2021-05-17T15:31:02","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T19:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1307036"},"modified":"2026-07-25T21:45:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T01:45:22","slug":"in-strange-twist-the-most-normal-part-of-the-hurricanes-playoff-debut-will-also-be-the-biggest-change-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1307036","title":{"rendered":"In strange twist, the most normal part of the Hurricanes&#8217; Playoff debut will also be the biggest change: fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/in-strange-twist-the-most-normal-part-of-the-hurricanes-playoff-debut-will-also-be-the-biggest-change-fans\/19682755\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/hockey\/nhl\/hurricanes\/2021\/05\/04\/19660804\/media_b4608cc448aa43658bff22756069eb41-DMID1-5qw20ghr8-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"Blackhawks_Hurricanes_Hockey_34603\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The Carolina Hurricanes haven&#8217;t played in front of a crowd this large since late February 2020. It&#8217;s the only thing about his team that head coach Rod Brind&#8217;Amour isn&#8217;t sure how they&#8217;ll handle mentally. But the Playoffs are here, and the Caniacs will be too as the Hurricanes take on the Nashville Predators in Game 1 of their opening-round series tonight in PNC Arena. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/in-strange-twist-the-most-normal-part-of-the-hurricanes-playoff-debut-will-also-be-the-biggest-change-fans\/19682755\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/in-strange-twist-the-most-normal-part-of-the-hurricanes-playoff-debut-will-also-be-the-biggest-change-fans\/19682755\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"In strange twist, the most normal part of the Hurricanes&#039; Playoff debut will also be the biggest change: fans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Carolina Hurricanes haven&#8217;t played in front of a crowd this large since late February 2020. It&#8217;s the only thing about his team that head coach&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1307036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canes","category-featured-stories","wpcat-89-id","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1307036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1908911,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307036\/revisions\/1908911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1307036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1307036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1307036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}