OverDrive - Jarvis on the Hurricanes' season experience, the role on the team and playing in Carolina

Episode Date: November 12, 2025

Carolina Hurricanes forward Seth Jarvis joined OverDrive to discuss his perspective of the Hurricanes season, his role in Carolina and the performance on offense, Rod Brind'Amour's coaching mentality for the team, the Winnipeg style, the experience playing in Carolina and more.

New contenders hit the ice as the metropolitan area teams join the Northern Premier Hockey League, bringing speed, grit, and high-caliber hockey to your city. Catch the action at nphlhockey.ca. Here he is from Winnipeg, Carolina Hurricane. Member of Canadian national team, here's Seth Jarvis. What's happening, Seth? Nothing, I don't appreciate you talking about losing my Blue Bomber coach like that, but I'm excited to be here.

Yeah, that stings. And it's not a lock yet. It's not done yet. Man, he's been good. He's been good. And we'll maybe run into him over the next couple of days. We're on our way out to Polo Park, the Boston Pizza and Polo Park. What do we need to know about the peg?

Set the scene here for us. I would avoid Polo Park a little bit, but, I mean, you're going to one of the nicest cities in Canada has to offer. All right. All right. We got that going for us. Well, we can't adjust on Polo Park. We are going there. but yeah it's an arranged thing we have no choice

so set tell us about your goon buddies did they drive down in the playoffs did i read that right did i see that on the on the prime special or whatever that your buddies made it down to the games drove down yeah yeah they did uh they made their way down down to raleigh it was uh it was a nice surprise i i didn't really have much of an idea they were coming down

and they uh they let me know a couple days before that they ended up in town at an Airbnb. Beauty. So how does that work? Like in terms of ticket retrieval, do they eventually let you know they're there because they need tickets? Or did they find a way to get that done without you? They got it done without me.

I was just fully surprised that they actually decided to come down. And, yeah, they took care of that stuff themselves. I love it. Well, we've been talking about, obviously, you guys, you were in town on Sunday, and just how well your team plays consistently. You know, in Toronto, we're talking about different things with the Leafs and a couple of different Canadian teams up here. We're talking about having some struggles.

It doesn't seem like that applies to Carolina. You know, you've been there for a while. Rob Brindamore has been your coach the whole time. Like, what is it about the culture down there that allows you guys to seemingly have good starts every year and, you know, be in the hunt for the top spot in the division every season? Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I think it starts with Roddy. I think he sets the tone pretty early in camp on what he expects from us and expect from our group.

We've had a pretty similar group over the last few years, so the chemistry is there, the locker room is incredible, and the guys they do bring in, have fit in seamlessly and have been really big additions to our team this year. So what is the – you mentioned the culture runs through Rod. You know, I know some guys who'd played there and previously, this guy – is he in – in the gym every day and beat the guys into the gym and stay longer? Like, is it kind of awkward when you're trying to work out, and the coach is in incredible shape as well?

It's a little intimidating sometimes, for sure. He varies the times when he comes in. I think sometimes he's in there pretty early, and then a lot of times he's in there after we're done practice, so you're kind of getting ready to leave, and you see him wearing his weight fest with his headphones in, sweating up a storm in there. But, I mean, that kind of sets the tone for our whole team.

even when you have a coach that's willing to still put in the work like that, it's pretty easy to go up there and just work hard for them and putting that extra effort. Seth, as far as what Roddy preaches, we've been talking about the Leafs and then balancing on, you know, trying to find some offense and not be, you know, terrible defensively. How do you guys try to balance that? Is it just hard work where everybody's got a back check?

I know you guys, I saw something on TV last year where it was like a race to who can get back first. How do you guys balance? being a strong defensive team, but you still got to score goals and also being creative offensively. Yeah, I think everything starts off with hard work, no matter of offensive defense.

And then he really preaches. We've got to keep goals out of our net. I think he loves the one-nothing games, and if we can win like that, he's more than happy. But like you said, you have to score in this league, and he lets us be creative and lets us mess around a little bit offensively. which I really appreciate and lets us create our own chances. But as long as he knows you have that commitment defensively

and commitment to come back and protect the puck in your own zone, he lets you kind of freewheel a little bit offensively. So how was it having the cameras around last year where you did that face-off inside the NHL? I mean, they followed you everywhere. Your brother's your skills coach. I mean, did it take a little bit for you to get used to the cameras being everywhere you were?

I don't think you could ever really get used to that. It was definitely strange, but something I'm really happy I did, and I'm happy how it turned out, and it was an experience that I wasn't sure I didn't expect to ever get, and one that I didn't think I could pass up, just with something that's new, something that lets fans and other people into a little bit more into how I was raised, my personality, and kind of everything that goes on behind the scenes. With Seth Jarvis, a large part of the ride last year would have been Four Nations,

and you being announced on that team and you're playing for that team and now it rolls over in the Olympics and it's getting pretty loud up here. I'm sure your family and friends are keeping you, you know, up to date on that. We talked to Connor Bedard about this early in the week that up here it's like Olympic updates daily.

Who's on, who's not? What's this guy doing? What's that guy doing? How do you handle that knowing that you established yourself the way that you did last year? And here we go again. I'm sure this is, you know, another notch as cool as foreign nations was. I can only imagine how much ambition and aspiration you have to play for the

Olympic team. Yeah, I mean, it'd be crazy not to want to play for that team. It'd be a massive honor. It's an extremely tough team to make and one that would be a really big privilege to be a part of, but it's not something that I'm solely focused on. I think I'm just kind of focused on every game going out there, putting my best foot forward, doing the best I can to showcase myself. And and give myself the best opportunity to make the team, whether or not that happens is out of my control, but knowing that I gave every game my best effort and went out there and really showed what I can do

and try to influence them one way or another is all I'm looking to kind of do. Beautiful. Well, we're staying downtown, I believe. I think we're on Portage, aren't we? I'm pretty sure we're on Portage. We want to watch the Leaf game. Yeah, where can we catch the Leaf game tomorrow in Winnipeg?

How's that request going to go over? Yeah, is that even possible? Is there like a secret leaf game? leaf crowd that hangs out in Winnipeg. You're not finding a secret leaf crowd anywhere in Winnipeg, but I'm sure the game will be on at Polo Park for you guys. Yes, Polo Park will hook us up. Maybe we just do that.

Maybe we just hang at BP for the night. The Jets are playing in Seattle, which is great because that's a late game for us. So we're not competing with them. Okay. Might be a Polo Park. We just stay in town. Well, that's maybe our plan. And Seth, you being from Winnipeg, how, you know, how difficult.

is it. I guarantee you that your buddies probably grew up Jets fans, but now they've got to cheer for Carolina. How does that transaction go down? Yeah, I don't know how much they cheer for Carolina sometimes, but it's fun. I think, yeah, like you said, they're all massive Jets fans when they came down for the playoffs last year. Obviously, the Jets were in the playoffs, so they were tuned into those games pretty heavy, but they support me as much as their ego lets them. and I know they'll always be Jets fans at hearts, but I'll take Carolina as a close second.

Seth, I want to ask you, when I played in Carolina, like we first got there, and you would never get recognized and no one ever talked to you out in public, is that changed, like, drastically now? Yeah, it's a lot different than when you were back here. It's a hockey town now. I think anywhere you kind of go, it'll be people out, whether it's kids, older fans,

you'll run into somebody that's a big cane fan, and I think that's the coolest part because you don't quite expect it down here, but there's a great following, and everyone's super respectful about it, but there's definitely a lot of canyacts looking to hang out. How much do you love just finishing practice and possibly teeing it up the odd day if you got a couple days off with nice weather,

and your buddies are back home freezing their ass off? Exactly. It doesn't get much better than that. I like sending them a couple pictures, of me on the golf course while they're, like you said, wearing tukes and hoodies, freezing their ass off back home. Where do you guys play these days? Old Chatham.

Love it. That's a great course. I am, that floater Justin Williams kind of started that kind of membership. You ever play with that guy? I don't think I've played with Willie, but I've definitely watched him play at OC, and he, yeah, he's a fan bagger. For sure. Yeah, it has to be.

He loves his golf game, just to ask him. That's where you want everyone to know the hurricanes when you need to call on a favorite of golf course. Like, that's when you know you meet it. Well, we'll be, we might drop your name tomorrow in Polo Park. We'll be cruising around saying. Tell your buddies to come on out and see us, man. We want to see those guys. Absolutely.

Oh, God. They're creepy mustaches and the whole nine, tell them to get out there. I'll keep you far away from you guys Yeah, please too Appreciate it, Seth And we'll do it again down the road Thanks for doing us Sounds good, thank you guys

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