from Luke DeCock of the News & Observer,

No one – not Tom Dundon, not Don Waddell, not Rod Brind'Amour and not anyone left on the Carolina Hurricanes' roster – wanted to go into the season with Petr Mrazek and Scott Darling in goal.

Mrazek has been good at points in his NHL career. He has also been very bad at others. Of the options still available after the Hurricanes lost out on Philipp Grubauer, they thought he was the best.

There have been a lot of years when the Hurricanes were observers on July 1 but few have felt as empty as Sunday, when the rest of the roster is generating increasing optimism and the net remains a sinkhole of pessimism.

This tandem is less than ideal, and it certainly wasn't the plan going into the offseason.

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