{"id":245677,"date":"2025-10-23T09:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T09:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/245677\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T09:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T09:01:09","slug":"miller-ehlers-playing-big-role-in-hurricanes-fast-start-aho-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/245677\/","title":{"rendered":"Miller, Ehlers playing big role in Hurricanes\u2019 fast start, Aho says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Miller and Ehlers are new to Carolina this season. Nikishin is in his first full season after arriving from Russia late last season.<\/p>\n<p>The Hurricanes (5-1-0) won their first five games before a 4-1 loss at the Vegas Golden Knights on Monday. They visit the Colorado Avalanche on Thursday (9 p.m. ET; FDSNSO, ALT, SNO, SNE).<\/p>\n<p>It will be Carolina\u2019s first chance to face former teammate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/brent-burns-8470613\" title=\"Brent Burns\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brent Burns<\/a>; the 40-year-old defenseman signed as a free agent with Colorado after three seasons with the Hurricanes.<\/p>\n<p>Burns is notorious for always having a large and completely filled military-style backpack with him. During the podcast interview, Aho gave us a description of what&#8217;s inside Burns&#8217; famous bag.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everything,&#8221; Aho said. &#8220;I mean, he brings his coffee makers, smoothie machines, whatever blenders he has. You name it. Obviously, a lot of recovery stuff. He takes care of his body. Obviously, he&#8217;s played 1,500 games in this league, so it&#8217;s not a coincidence. But yeah, if you&#8217;re missing a random item, like, &#8216;Oh, I left this at home,&#8217; it&#8217;s like, &#8216;Oh, I&#8217;ve got five of those in my bag.&#8217; So, it&#8217;s fine. Great guy to have around.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Aho shot down the rumor that Burns also has live animals in his bag.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s one thing missing in his bag, but pretty much everything else,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know how long he takes time to unpack and pack that stuff, but yeah, it&#8217;s definitely a commitment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the \u201cNHL @TheRink\u201d podcast for more from Aho, plus a conversation about the Golden Knights with Daren Millard, who is part of their broadcast team, and opinions from the co-hosts on the sustainability of the Utah Mammoth, Detroit Red Wings, Pittsburgh Penguins and Toronto Maple Leafs, a discussion on the Chicago Blackhawks&#8217; growth, the New York Rangers&#8217; struggles at home and why the New Jersey Devils are off to a fast start.<\/p>\n<p>The podcast is free and listeners can subscribe on all podcast platforms. It is also available on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/multimedia\/podcasts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NHL.com\/multimedia\/podcasts<\/a> and the NHL app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miller and Ehlers are new to Carolina this season. Nikishin is in his first full season after arriving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-245677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}