{"id":485168,"date":"2026-02-17T06:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T06:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/485168\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T06:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T06:18:07","slug":"nothing-changes-bussi-remains-hungry-after-securing-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/485168\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Nothing Changes&#8217;: Bussi Remains Hungry After Securing Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Bussi continued to stack win after win, the temporary stopgap quickly became someone that both fans, and front office, began looking at as a potential part of the future. With Frederik Andersen in the final year of his contract, the writing on the wall suggested that there&#8217;d be an opening to work in-tow with Pyotr Kochetkov for the 2026-27 season and potentially beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Showcasing an ability to handle an increased workload with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/hurricanes\/news\/kochetkov-probably-out-for-the-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kochektov on the shelf<\/a>, the unlikely hero has made the most of his moment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s difficult to break into the league. Sometimes, different opportunities pop up in different ways. Mine happened in a way that doesn\u2019t happen for a lot of people,&#8221; he reasoned. &#8220;There\u2019s a lot of good hockey players out there and things happen for a reason. That\u2019s kind of been my motto. I\u2019m very fortunate that (my story) gets to happen here for longer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Crediting his teammates and the situation here in Raleigh for making the decision to commit through the end of the 2028-29 season &#8220;a no-brainer&#8221;, Bussi believes that this group is capable of accomplishing their ultimate aspirations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA big thing is, you look at the way our team is set up and it\u2019s an exciting time to be a Carolina Hurricanes fan. I think the players we have in our locker room, we have a great group and we have high goals,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;We have an opportunity to do something here. Being able to lock this in, and now I just get to focus on hockey, and doing what I can do to help this team win, is important to me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Bussi continued to stack win after win, the temporary stopgap quickly became someone that both fans, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-485168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}