For what it's worth, The Athletic's Dom Le-Spellcheck's model gives us a 67% win probability for this series and has us tied with the Lightning for the third highest chance of winning the Cup...
Walt Ruff with some comments from Darren Yorke on expectations for Nikishin...
https://www.nhl.com/hurricanes/news/learning-more-about-alexander-nikishin
Seems worthy of its own thread...
https://www.nhl.com/hurricanes/news/hurricanes-agree-to-terms-with-nikishin?fbclid=IwY2xjawJmBRNleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHnhTMh1D_vedSpwZUnGVN5xtP9CRxg6AD8sxo342PS9i9Jdq2GUDWLqru6n1_aem_UsqxWkPHVZfuN2yIEAWYmw