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Playoff hockey returned to PNC Arena, and no one took it for granted this time


In another life, you would’ve heard some passing complaints about the rain as you walked through the overcast tailgate lots outside of PNC Arena ahead of Game 1 on Monday.

But in this life, all I heard was the cracking of Storm Brew cans, “I Wanna Dance with Somebody” by Whitney Houston and, out of nowhere, a high-pitched scream.

I can’t make this up. I turned around and saw the person screaming was Rod Brind’Amour’s youngest son, Brooks. He was celebrating a goal he scored in a makeshift street hockey game among the tailgates.

The relationship between the Brind’Amour family and Raleigh, N.C., is hard to explain to anyone on the outside. Brind’Amour is a living legend in the local hockey scene — if we’re being honest, there probably isn’t much of a local hockey scene without him. But at the same time, he and his family blend right in and participate in the community as anyone else would.





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