Barn Burner: Boomer & Pinder with Rhett Warrener - You Have To RESPECT What The Carolina Hurricanes Have Built 🔥 | BB Clips

Episode Date: June 2, 2026

Boomer, Pinder and Rhett preview the Carolina Hurricanes ahead of the Stanley Cup Final and discuss why this team absolutely deserves to be here. After years of playoff heartbreak and constantly falling short in the Eastern Conference Final, Carolina finally broke through by sticking with their core group, trusting their coaching staff and continuing to build things the same way year after year. The boys talk about what has made this Hurricanes team so dangerous, why they’ve earned the respect of the hockey world and how Boomer may have developed a bit of a soft spot for this group heading into the Final against Vegas. Can Carolina finally finish the job and win the Stanley Cup or does the Golden Knights machine keep rolling? Let us know who you’re cheering for in the Final.Video Link: https://youtu.be/EsnZ8KdGIgU#nhl #nhlshorts #nhlplayoffs #nhlpredictions #nhlhockey #nhlpicks #stanleycup #stanleycupfinal #vegasgoldenknights CHECK OUT OUR STUFF ⬇️BARN BURNER MERCHhttps://nationgear.ca/collections/shirts/FlamesnationBARN BURNER SHORTS https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj_bcGtvvo-cW2DHEDZ6dEO5ePDmlhZc9&si=jo8iNGxT4ImhS2Y8📲 Follow us:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fnbarnburner/X (Twitter): https://x.com/barnburnerfn?lang=en🎧 Listen on:Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/be/podcast/barn-burner-boomer-pinder-with-rhett-warrener/id1648562889Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Mc6Qd5U22R2zbMlQ7RxIiProducer: Jack Haverstock Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I find myself, you know what it is? You know what I've got somewhere in here amidst the cholesterol and the fatty tissue? The block. Yeah, yeah. Right in here? Yeah. I got heartstrings. Really?

And they're kind of being tugged. Who's tugging them, dude? Carolina hurricanes. Really? Rod? They're kind of getting tugged. They can tugged a little bit. You said you hate them.

Yeah, times changed. Don't worry. I know, I didn't say, I don't hate anything. Yeah, you despise them. You hate the people. they hate the whole thing, the whole situation. You know, you know, what the thing is? Like we were talking last week, I think, I don't know enough about them.

What about these Carolina hurricanes? Is that what you've been doing with your spare time then? Just taking into some, you got to any biographies on stall or? No, I was doing some, I put some LED lights up. I was doing some cord management in my little cord management here. A little cord management last night. That's what I was doing. I just put a little something into, uh, into the drive there, but, uh,

But I was like, like Jordan Stahl, he's been playing forever. Ever. Yeah. He won the Stanley Cup 17 years ago as a member of the Pittsburgh Penguins. It's a bit. Jack, you remember that? Were you dead? Jack was alive.

No, I was alive. Oh, good. Taylor Hall went first overall in 2010, 16 years ago, playing in his first final. Over a thousand games between taking first overall and a Stanley Cup final appearance. I think it's the longest since OV when he finally got to the final against Vegas also. they won. Almost. Should he win? It'd be the longest stretch between draft, first overall and cup win since Eric Johnson in 2014. And he was in Colorado. He was in Colorado. Ovi in 13, Stamcoast and 12. Those were, there was a stretch there. We're the first

rounders all, you're the first overalls finally got it. Stammer. Yeah, he was there a while. Where's Stammer? He's with McFarland on, uh, Broadmoor tuning guitars. That's what they said when he was getting drafted. That was Tampa-based thing. Seen-Stam-Cost. Those are the billboards. Seen-Sam-Cose? It was like a Where's Waldo thing, remember that? Yeah, it's kind of play on that. Carolina first team to reach the Cup final

with fewer than two losses since they went to four rounds of Best of Sevens. So in the modern era, this is it. And it would be hard to watch this and not feel that way. They've had one loss. Yeah, they've got one hell of a win percentage there, Dean. They're on pace. They've got 100 playoff wins. Rod Brindamore has been part of 98 of them.

39 is a player. 59 as a coach. And we love Rod the Bud. What happened to those other couple of games? He must have been in three years. It's a flyer and been traded. He was in Philly. He's the seventh coach ever to reach the final with the same team as he played for a team as a player and coach.

We like Rod the Bod. So name the others. Lindy Ralph. I can, but they're all old guys. Lindy rough, Darrell Sutter. I think there's only a couple in the modern era of the rest of them. No, no. Head coach with the team you played.

I know. Chicago. They went to the final. Him and Keenan. Yeah, but he didn't coach. He wasn't head coach. He was coaching. She wasn't ahead when they went, though.

No. Lindy rough. Joel Quinville? This is got, but it's got, yeah. What? Hang on,

I'll find it. I'll find it for you. You're putting them on the spot. Who are the others? Seven guys top of my head, K? Stand by. I think there's a bunch in like the,

it's all. 40s, 50s, 60s, when there's only six teams. Toe Blake. Sure, something like that. A guy that obviously. Sid Abel, Toe Blake, Ditt Clapper, Hapday, Milt Schmidt, Cooney Welland. He's one of my favorites. Dick Clapper.

Careful. One of my favorites. If I got a jersey, it would be a Dick Clapper jersey. It's Ditt. Dapper. Really? I always thought it was Dick. That's what you called him. DIT.

Your pals. Old Hap Day and Cooney Weller. I've never heard a Ditt. Yeah, it's a dip. Ditt clap. It's a new name. Name my next kid, Ditt. Get on it.

Jordan Stahl. We'll join his brother, Eric. The Capture the Cup as a member of the Cains. And was there a captain in 06 as well? He was young. Would Rod have been the captain then? Francis. Is Ronnie Francis playing?

That's a great question. Holy this. Look at what you've opened up a can of worms team. This Carolina. What a long story. history. Mm-hmm. We're talking about.

Rod was the captain. Rod raised the cup. Roddy. That's what they call. And then Cam Ward said, hey, Dino, let's go get a coffee and check out this cup. That's when Ward has. Let's go.

Look at my Khan Smyth trophy, bud. We're going out to the Golden Bear Golf Course and get ripped. Oh, baby. But let's, I mean, maybe you too amidst the cholesterol and fatty tissue. Yeah. Maybe your heartstrings can also be tugged by these canes. No. Oh, hope. What does hope mean? Hope that things can get better in spite of adversity.

How do you go from where you are to where you want to be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal, you have to be willing to work for it. There are three things we all should do every day. If we do this every day of our life, you're going to have, what a wonderful. Number one is laugh. Number two is think. You should spend some time in thought. And number three is you should have your emotions moved to tears.

And then I always get choked up. You know, it also gets me a little emotional. Enjoy your life the precious moments you have. To spend each day with some laughter and some thought. To get your emotions going. To be enthusiastic every day. To keep your dreams alive in spite of problems. Whatever you have, you'll be able to be able to.

to work hard for your dreams to become true become a reality. If you have a someone with a dream, you have a motivated person with a dream and a goal and a vision, if you have someone who never gives up, who has great hope. And that team taught me the persistence, the idea of never, ever quitting. Don't ever give up.

Don't ever. Jesus. Dino. Jack, let's go for a drink. Let's get out of here. Holy. Run through a wall. Wow. So we got to laugh.

We're good at that. We're going to think. That's going to be tougher for us. Cry. We've got to cry today. Stam Cains. Got me close right there. We'd say it all the time.

If they got superstars? Not really. You know? Have they got anybody making $10 million or more? No, they don't. They had one guy over a point per game. Barely over a point a game. Anyone picking them?

Maybe. even now everyone's hot on Vegas this is just me saying maybe you should find a little room in your heart for the Carolina hurricane I'm moving to Carolina if they win wow wow that's bold sure is you saw the video how the hell can I stay away from that be part of something you guys are dragging me down

yeah can I come right of course can you're America you're easy you're easy We could stop co-parenting you and your dad can actually do some work. So just to further what we're talking about here, and that's the Caroline heard. Hold. He said, that thing you talked about,

I think it's. Heart. I forgot. Heartstrings. Those are, yeah. Yeah, now it's completely out of my head what I was going to say.

Yeah, I know. That's the brain. That's the blood, leaving the heart going to the brain. It's not operating correctly, Dean. Oh, that's what I was going to say.

So you're basically Pinder. You're cheering for a team to beat Vegas so that we don't get our first round pick. So you're, I'm cheering just like Pinder cheered again. I would rather beat the Oilers at Christmas than have a high draft. That's what I'm saying. I'm just everybody wants Vegas. Everybody plays,

they want them to win. What I'm doing as kind of the host, I'm just building the case for thought. Just, well, this. And that guy's not even a NHL coach.

That's some joker basketball coach. That's the late great Jim Valvano. Well, Jimmy V. The Jimmy Vee Foundation. It's raised millions of dollars. You take it back. So of you?

Yes. Yeah. I've donated. Yeah. What did that money go to that you weren't making in the in the lockouts? Did that go to charity? I'm sure it went to a nice boat for the owners.

Yeah, yeah. I was talking about the sweet. Anyway, I know, I know. No, I don't, I mean, it's, it's tough when you put your feel for us video together with a bunch of clips of you winning the Stanley Cup. It's not like you've never won it. You did win it. It's been a long time, granted, but.

I think because we're far away from it, it's not the Buffalo Bills losing four straight Super Bowls. not the oilers going to back to back up finals and losing and that sort of thing. But I think and we talk about it all the time. What are you doing Carolina? What do you? What do you? You're very good team, but you can't get over the hump.

This would be the story of sticking with it and finding, finally finding a way to get over the hump. Would you compare these franchises, ownership approaches is kind of similar? and outside the realm of normal for NHD. Dund operates differently, doesn't he? For sure he does. Fully operates. Vegas just does whatever they want. I'm not saying they operate the same,

but they have unique approaches to what we try to do. Cutthroat tendencies for sure, right? Yeah, that's a good point. Some reason I was thinking about Colorado zone, we did too much on McFarland this morning. They're absolutely similar in that sense. It is, I don't care what the historical practices are.

I'm not worried about the norms around this league. Like, we're going to do it my way. and through my vision, we're going to pursue greatness. I did it my way. Tony Bennett. So good. Yeah. What do you think, Jack?

How are your heartstrings? I think I'm all on the canes. What the, I think I am. How can we do this? And now here's the thing. If we'd played some tear-jurking video about the Vegas golden nights and all they've been through from their inaugural season

and that tragedy, you'd be doing this. We need equal air time here. You're swaying. Listen, I was going to, but the Vegas one that they put out was like five minutes long. And it's Gary Lawless doing the narration. Basically talking about how they're hairy-faced and they take what they want against all. It's the villains.

Yeah. The heartstrings will go to Carolinas, right? These are the big bad golden nights. I thought Carolina was the jerks. That was what Don called them when he was still on the air. So that was a while ago. But it has hung around, a bunch of jerks. Who called them jerks?

Don't cherry. Oh, was this? Yeah, that's, and then they're doing that stuff after the game, right? Storms and celebrations, yeah. And then they immediately went to social media and ran with it. Yeah, they're good at that. A bunch of jerks was born. Yeah.

And then I remember the offer sheets with back and forth, it was Aho and it was a cut in the Emmy. And they have a very sassy social media team. Why do you like Carolina, Jack? because of the video? I'd just like that they've stuck with this same group. Like if Vegas had gone one in 17 in the conference final, they would have fired like four coaches and changed roster like seven times.

That's true. And you do love Rod. You love Rod. You love Rod. Like I don't really have. I think everyone loves Rod. Deep feelings for any of their players. But I like that they've kept this group somewhat together and kept Rod.

So anyone happy for Mark Jankowski? or are we too sour about that draft class still? No, it's been a decade. I think I am happy for him because he's turned into something. I'm mad at the guy that drafted him for running, for saying anything. You should have to just shush. You can pick guys and not have to sound smart.

If anything, he's a real testament to not, you're not going to survive on your first round pedigree. You're going to have to work at it. And he has, you know, he's been employed. He's not got, right? Teams have employee. He played in Nashville. He's played a lot of hockey.

Including some H. stuff, Dina, where he had to figure out what do I need to do to keep a role in the NHL and that was to become a great fourth line center, not what you thought you were drafting in round one, which was always a new end. I'd like, shut out. Like, he's done a good job carving out a role

to put Cocheneh in the press box. This guy playing Stockton, for Christ's sakes. Stabby. Sure. He had off of that stock, two years in Stockton. I was just checking how many games. 482. It's not a ton. I think he's got his pension there. That's good for him.

I don't think it works that way anymore. There's thresholds, but I think the top one's over if you're close to 500. I think it's that way anymore. No. I don't think they're all rich bastards. Well, they are that.

And they get an unbelievable pension. And he played for the Sabres deed. The Sabres. I love this guy. He's on. Rindamore? Yeah. No,

there's no bad blood for Jankowski. I don't know how you. It's just scar tissue for Flames fans. Yeah. This is, now we talked about Taylor Hall. he of course was a oiler pick as I recall heading to his first final

in he's also a guy that's had to kind of change this was him and we talk about Rod the Bod and we talk about whatever you want to call it the system the way you have to play to be a member of the Carolina Hurricanes you're on the puck you're going you're going you're going and this was Hall at the media

day yesterday I guess it was talking about what he kind of needed to do upon becoming a cane We're a very fit team. When I got here from Chicago last year, I wasn't in skating shape enough to play the way I wanted to here. It took me a couple weeks. There's a lot of skating in the way that we play. And now it seems like second nature, but it doesn't hurt that your coach is in shape like that. That's just the kind of guy he is.

He's a role model for us. And, you know, we kind of follow his league. Kind of. That's for Taylor Hall, too, is not like chubby. Taylor Hall was not. I was to say, he's a dad's a bobsledder. He was the hell's that. Well, I mean, he comes from a family of athletes.

He's been training like crazy. Bob sledding is athlete? Yes. Oh, I thought I watched John Candy and those guys did Bob. John wasn't in the bobsled. The sprinters were. Yeah. What if you're the guy in the front?

You're not one of the big pushers at the back. You got to just be a run for a bit. You got to do you're more steering. But Taylor Hall could skate like the wind. You would think that this would be the easy part for me. Yeah. Oh, we have to skate. I'm good at that.

I came in here and it was like, Jesus, we, this is the holy. Yeah, yeah, which is not surprising to hear when you watch them for any amount of time. It's how they look. They are dogged and relentless in their pursuit of pucks. It's just wave after wave. It doesn't matter which line it is, everyone is flying. You don't get to sit back and have time to make decisions when you're the opposition. You are under duress and pressure.

almost all the time. It's like working with Pinder. You can't. Can't be taking days off, Dino? One second. It's really, yeah. I'll switch to the oilers if you're slowing down.

I'll really piss you off. Yeah, if you're not careful and you're not really. Who drafted them? I can go there right now. I know you can. Yeah, I know. I know. It's on the nose almost for,

for this one.