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2026 Hurricanes Off Season Thread

jeffbear said:
They did drive the boys in open top cars to a stage at City Plaza for the speachifying, but for some reason it never got billing over the parking lot thing and the thing downtown kind of came together last minute. It was a weird time down at City Hall. Meeker never had much of a feel for the people when it came to that sort of thing and the city wasn’t really used to hosting big events downtown. It’s a different era now that they’ve hosted festivals for years and aren't terrified of crowds.
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Fayetteville Street didn’t re-open for cars until November 2006. Maybe it came down Hillsborough and stopped at the Capitol? Too bad the view from the Capitol to Memorial Auditorium will be gone shortly as the new Omni Hotel gets built between Lenoir and South streets.

The 2002 ECF celebration was held on Fayetteville Street Mall. I remember Francis saying the next time we do this, we’re bringing Stanley.
 
jeffbear said:
All joking aside, the Mayors office is expecting up to 100,000 people downtown for the parade and celebration on Saturday. PLEASE have a (realistic) plan if you’re going to go. The idea of securing a hotel room is a good one, but you’ll need to nail something down fairly soon and plan on hunkering down once you get there. Ubers/Lyfts and cabs will be expensive and hard to come by on the day. Downtown hotel rooms sell out for Hopscotch and the Bluegrass Festival (RIP) every year, with WAY less people involved. Just sayin … I may be out of the travel planning business these days, but you’ll want to plan ahead. This ain’t the Raleigh Christmas Parade where you can make a spur of the moment decision and have a great time. It also ain’t 2006 anymore, Toto.
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Not to rain on the parade...pardon the pun, but Mike Manaspellcheck was just on Sirius XM NHL and said that number is ticking way way up past the Mayors office number and the Canes org are actually expecting closer to 200K for Saturday...that is downright frightening in some respects in regards to getting close to much of the action but we are still going to brave it!!!
 
How does one estimate 100 or 200k showing up......i mean, is someone taking a gallup poll? Are they listening in on our siri conversations? Or, more likely, they are pulling numbers out of their rear ends. Hell, I heard 500K ;)
 
Fayettenamcanesfan said:
How does one estimate 100 or 200k showing up......i mean, is someone taking a gallup poll? Are they listening in on our siri conversations? Or, more likely, they are pulling numbers out of their rear ends. Hell, I heard 500K ;)
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It's the Woodstock counting method. At one point, I think at one point, they estimated 50 kabillion people were there. And if you talk to most any baby boomer, every single one of them in that generation were there.
 
Fayettenamcanesfan said:
How does one estimate 100 or 200k showing up......i mean, is someone taking a gallup poll? Are they listening in on our siri conversations? Or, more likely, they are pulling numbers out of their rear ends. Hell, I heard 500K ;)
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I know one thing...there are probably more than a few downtown Raleigh residents who live most of their lives under a rock who are about to shit their pants all day Saturday when they venture out from under that rock for their morning routine... :ROFLMAO:
 
perfectstormhits said:
Any good recommendations for a breakfast downtown on Saturday?
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A Place at the Table on Hargett St is pretty good and has a model I love "Pay what you can" or you pay regular prices..pay it forward...etc....and the food is good too.

Then there are the usuals like Metro Diner which is ok

I have been to Morning Times....also on Hargett St.......once and I really enjoyed it
 
The rally in City Plaza at the end of the parade will be secure and access will be restricted. What a pile of pigshit.

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What does that really mean though?

At a certain point I would think that they would have an area in front of and around the stage where they would only allow photographers, cameramen and certain credentialed people? I don't think that statement means that a general fan won't be able to get close....but you definitely need to leave room for camerapeople to operate and for there to be a safety buffer. You are not going to be able to stand right in front of the stage or get behind the stage.

That is my guess, we will see....

My biggest concern is just how early will one need to actually get to that area? We were thinking we would be leaving our house at 6AM (25 minutes to where we want to park without traffic). I'm not quite sure now if that is early enough?
 
That was my greatest fear…at what point do they limit access to the plaza…I heard big screens will be set up further away from the main stage of the plaza to televise the player speeches etc but what exactly does that mean…
 
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