Blake’s Playoff Beard Gets an A From the Hurricanes

Jackson Blake’s Stanley Cup playoff beard has become a small but very on-brand Hurricanes storyline, and the team is giving it an “A for effort.” Playoff beards are one of those inside-baseball hockey rituals that outsiders laugh at until they see how seriously the room treats them. Carolina is clearly having fun with it, which usually says something about a team’s mood when the pressure is thick.