Canes Talk ECF Breakthrough as the Room Starts Believing

The Hurricanes are saying the quiet part out loud now, and that usually means a locker room has crossed into dangerous territory for everybody else. Frederik Andersen, Jordan Staal, K'Andre Miller, and Rod Brind'Amour all weigh in on Carolina reaching the 2026 Eastern Conference Final, which tells you this is not some happy-to-be-here exercise. The Canes have spent years trying to turn structure into a real spring payoff, and this is the stage where that reputation either hardens or cracks.