We'd all agree, I'll bet, that the organization's prospect pool has gotten a lot deeper over the past two years, in particular because of the Jake Gensel trade.

But would we agree on who's the number one prospect in that pool right this second?

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Panthers 5, Hurricanes Zero last night in game two of the Eastern Conference final. That was not

interesting. That was not remotely interesting.

Even if you're aware of this completely psycho stat

that the hurricanes have now lost 14 games in a row in the Eastern Final.

That, of course, began with, you know, the local team sweeping them out in

2009. By the way, that was a series in which if Gennie Malkin scored what might have been

the signature goal of his career, his quote-unquote statue goal, That little backhand, roofed over Cam Ward's shoulder.

The Keynes were swept in 2009.

They were swept in 2019.

They were swept in 2023.

And the Panthers are dominating them to such an extreme right now that it looks like they could be swept in three

games rather than four crazy stuff happening in raleigh right now and they're just not even in this

but hey got to be careful about how much you talk down on anybody if you're doing it from

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