What are some of the superstitions youāve done while watching your team. For example mine are:
1. Wearing the same hoodie (but also taking it off if things arenāt going well.)
2. Taking off my watch before games
3. Canes manifestation playlist
4. Refusing to go on Twitter, Reddit, or watch any of the Canes stories on instagram during games
5. Knocking on wood several times throughout a game
An honorable mention is that during the first Panthers shutout this season I was eating chicken Caesar salad so we made it again for the second gameā¦ and we all know what happened. So playoff salad era may be in my future.
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Hurricanesā Seth Jarvis leans into status as an honorary Harvard grad
By: Luke Decock, April 24, 2024
When Tripp Tracy was asked to speak at a meeting of the Harvard Club of the Research Triangle last week, he naturally invited the Carolina Hurricanesā two other Harvard Men to join him. Jack Drury, owner of a Harvard diploma, class of 2023. Seth Jarvis, owner of a āHarvard Alumniā T-shirt, class of not quite veritas.
Neither Drury nor Jarvis could attend because of the teamās pre-playoff dinner gathering, but Jarvis was nevertheless welcome despite his self-proclaimed āGrade 6ā education, because if thereās one thing thatās true about the Hurricanesā third-year forward above all else, itās that if you try to make him the butt of a joke, even a heartfelt, good-natured one, heāll find a way to turn it back around on you.
When Drury returned from his Cambridge graduation last summer with the crimson T-shirt as a gift for Jarvis, he never expected Jarvis to cut off the sleeves.
He never expected Jarvis to make it his undershirt and wear it under his shoulder pads every single day of the season. For every practice. Every game. Every postgame interview.
āI thought, thereās no better way to put it to use than cut it into a tank top and wear it under my gear,ā Jarvis said.
Seth Jarvis. Harvard alum. The shirt says so.
āThere have been a few people who have seriously asked me if I went to Harvard,ā Jarvis said, āand theyāve obviously never had a conversation with me.ā
The Hurricanes have always had a strong connection to Harvard, through Tracy and his youth teammate and future front-office executive Jason Karmanos, through players like Craig MacDonald and Craig Adams.
Theyāve had players from the rest of the hockey-playing Ivy League schools as well, other than Brown: Jeff Hamilton (Yale), Kevin Westgarth (Princeton), Lee Stempniak (Dartmouth), Riley Nash (Cornell). Now Drury. And, apparently, Jarvis.
āI think itās been awesome,ā Tracy said. āI would have liked to have had him on the roster.ā
Even within the hockey world, itās hard to imagine two teammates as different as the goofy Manitoban and the cosmopolitan Harvard grad becoming so close. Jarvis left home at 14 to play junior hockey in the Western Hockey League and was in the NHL by age 18.
Drury, scion of a prominent hockey family, spent two years at Harvard and another year overseas in Sweden; even though Drury is two years older than Jarvis, Jarvis has played more than 100 more NHL games than Drury.
The two are akin to brothers as much as they are friends or teammates, so when Drury gave Jarvis the shirt, it was with the best of intentions. Still, give Jarvis an inch or two, heāll take all 200 feet, same in the dressing room as on the rink.
āI got it for him hoping he would wear it,ā Drury said. āUsing it as the undershirt, I love that. I didnāt know heād do that. Once he started to do it, I thought it was awesome. Heās a character. But you couldnāt have a better guy around the room.ā
Every single day, the shirt goes into his laundry bag to be laundered with the rest of the teamās base layers, an old-school throwback amid the sweat-wicking, high-tech gear.
By now, seven months into the season, as the Hurricanes head north for Thursdayās Game 3 against the New York Islanders with a 2-0 lead in their first-round series, the T-shirt should probably be in tatters. It looks just fine. Other than the missing sleeves.
āItās hung on,ā Jarvis said. āItās high quality. Only the best at Harvard.ā
At the end of the regular season, when Jarvis sat in on the Bally Sports broadcast with Tracy and Mike Mansicalco while sitting out Game 82, he told Tracy he would have liked to major in āmicro-macro engineeringā at Harvard, which sounds like a typical Jarvis malaprop, mishmashing economics and engineering. But it also could very well be somebodyās bespoke āspecial concentrationā in Harvardās engineering school, studying ātheories of engineering principlesā or the āinteractions between microscopic innovation and large system models.ā
Jarvis, with his elite hockey IQ and even quicker wit, may be more evidence that you donāt have to be book smart to be smart. He plays up the dopey-goofball angle because it gets laughs ā āThereās still a lot of stupidity going on throughout my day,ā Jarvis said ā and won the Josef Vasicek Award this season for his quotability, but heās the son of two educators, and thereās a spark that animates both his personality and his game, burning bright under all the self-deprecating humor.
āHe plays a little dumb, but heās pretty smart actually,ā Martin Necas said. āIām positive. Heās pretty smart. He just makes himself look like it on purpose, sometimes.ā
Watching his game grow over the past two seasons, as he spent last year becoming a two-way player and this season reaping the rewards, itās fair to wonder what would happen if he applied himself in the classroom as he has to his hockey career. Who knows what might be possible.
āItās never too late,ā Drury said. āHe plays it up a little bit but heās smarter than people realize. Heās got a good head on his shoulders.ā
And the T-shirt over his shoulders to sort-of prove it.
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I donāt know if this is a controversial take but I think empty net goal etiquette is stupid and shouldnāt be a thing.
If your team is doing so bad that they pull the goalie and canāt get a goal, then they deserve to get scored on in the funniest way imaginable.
Give me empty net slap shots, give me empty net Michigans, give me an empty net spinorama.
Would I get sad if it happened to my team? Of course! But at that point the other team deserves it
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