Oh, come on, you thought about it too.

Don't, don't pose as if you're above this sort of dialogue.

It's okay to wonder what would have happened if your team had advanced instead of the other guys.

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The Hurricanes did to the Flyers what the flyers thought they were going to do to the

penguins in sweeping them out of the round, four in a row, and really just in brutal fashion,

which is to say Philadelphia scored five total goals in those four games.

There was no facet in which the Hurricanes weren't the superior team.

Up front defensively, power play, penalty kill, goaltending.

And as a result, Carolina is headed to the Eastern Conference final without having lost a game yet.

Eight and no.

First team to start out in the playoffs.

Eight and no, by the way, since 1985.

So given that they're going to have, my goodness, a week and a half or so to heal up and be completely ready for either Buffalo or Montreal. One would think

that the Stanley Cup final will include stops in Raleigh, North Carolina. So I'm not about to be

an idiot here and suggest that the Penguins would have, you know, tore right through the hurricanes or whatever had they

advanced. I think a lot of things would have had to go right for the penguins to have had a chance

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