Carolina Hurricanes Milestones

Order these Carolina Hurricanes franchise moments by the year they happened. You place all 24 cards on one timeline, one at a time. Three wrong guesses ends the run.

Carolina Hurricanes Milestones
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How to play the Carolina Hurricanes history game

This deck follows the Hurricanes franchise through its whole life, and each card has a brief description below the title. You put the moments in the order they happened, by year. The game places one moment on the timeline first, showing its year. Each card after that goes in the gap you choose; a good choice reveals the year, and a bad one sends the card to its true spot while costing one of your three lives.

Long before it was the Hurricanes, this franchise lived in another league and another part of the country, so the deck covers far more ground than the current name suggests. Ownership changes, relocation and arena stories share space with the playoff runs. The later cards come thick and fast, with several deep conference runs that only the descriptions can separate.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

What's in the deck

Here are 24 of the 24 cards you might be dealt. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Founded as the New England Whalers A charter member of the upstart WHA, based in Boston
  • Won the Avco World Trophy Beat the Winnipeg Jets as the WHA's first champions
  • Settled into the Hartford Civic Center Left Boston for a new downtown Connecticut home
  • The arena roof collapsed Heavy snow caved in the Civic Center, exiling the club to Springfield
  • Joined the NHL Absorbed in the league's merger with the WHA
  • Gordie Howe's farewell season Mr. Hockey suited up for all 80 games at age 51
  • Drafted Ron Francis Grabbed the future Hall of Fame center fourth overall
  • First NHL playoff series win Ousted Quebec, then fell to Montreal in overtime of game seven
  • Won the Adams Division title Finished atop their division for the only time as the Whalers
  • Traded Ron Francis to Pittsburgh Dealt the captain in a swap that helped the Penguins win Cups
  • Peter Karmanos bought the franchise New owners took over the struggling Hartford club
  • Relocated to North Carolina Played a final emotional game before leaving Hartford
  • Opened a Raleigh arena Left temporary digs in Greensboro for a new building
  • Reached the Stanley Cup Final Lost the championship series to Detroit
  • Drafted Eric Staal Selected the future captain second overall
  • Won the Stanley Cup Cam Ward starred as they beat Edmonton in seven games
  • Reached the Eastern Conference Final A deep playoff run ended against Pittsburgh
  • Hosted the NHL All-Star Game Raleigh's showcase weekend also saw Brind'Amour's 17 raised
  • Drafted Sebastian Aho Nabbed the Finnish forward in the second round
  • Tom Dundon took control A new majority owner ended the Karmanos era
  • Back to the Eastern Conference Final The Storm Surge celebrations carried them deep
  • Won a bubble qualifying round Beat the Rangers in the pandemic restart
  • Won the Central Division Topped a temporarily realigned division
  • Reached the Eastern Conference Final again Fell to the eventual champion Panthers

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