Storm Advisory 8/5/20: NHL News, Daily Links and Roundup

Yesterday’s News Today

• Aho Scores Highlight-Reel Goal, Reimer Shuts the Door as Hurricanes Complete Sweep of Rangers
• Aho, Foegele and Reimer speak post-game following qualifying round sweep
• Rod Brind’Amour: ‘That’s a special group we have in there.’

Reading Assignments

• The Canes finished off the Rangers last night which means they are advaNCing to the next round:

• Also, Canes Twitter is the best:

• Go inside the Canes locker room with Jordan Martinook and Rod Brind’ Amour after their victory last night:

• The Hurricanes don’t need extra games to close out the Rangers. [N&O]
• The Lundqvist era effectively ends as Carolina eliminates the Rangers. [The Hockey News]
• This was written before the sweep, but it’s still relevant. With Andrei Svechnikov set to ‘God Mode’, the Hurricanes are a Stanley Cup threat. [The Hockey News]
• How the bubble leagues are getting it right and what we on the outside can learn. [The Athletic $]
• Jake Muzzin has to be taken off the ice on a stretcher during the Leafs vs Blue Jackets game on Tuesday. Thankfully he was conscious and moving all his extremities before going to the hospital. Update: He has been released from this hospital as of this morning. [ESPN]
• Seattle Kraken devour Knights’ expansion launch mark. [ESPN]
• We’ll wrap up today with one more look at this absolutely incredible, filthy, dirty, nasty, NSFW, unbelievable, outlandish, and downright astonishing goal from Sebastian Aho:

• Lastly, if anyone has anything they’d like to add to Brian’s package just let us know:

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