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Hours before the puck drops on Carolina Hurricanes game days, Wade Minter starts getting into character.<\/p>\n

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After 11 years as the Hurricanes\u2019 public announcer, it\u2019s a ritual he knows by heart.<\/p>\n

First, he puts on his red Hurricanes jersey \u2014 his name across his back \u2014 picks up a hot coffee at Starbucks and drives to the Lenovo Center while listening to a pregame playlist melding old-school hip-hop with Boygenius and Indigo Girls.<\/p>\n

He eats a pregame meal of barbecue with Eastern sauce, coleslaw and sweet tea while reviewing the pronunciations of the night\u2019s players before walking in a clockwise loop around the arena \u2014 pausing to say hi to fans and take pictures \u2014 and making his way back to the press box.<\/p>\n

Then, it\u2019s time for Minter to take his seat as the voice of the Carolina Hurricanes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe script has been fairly consistent over the past 11 years,\u201d Minter said. \u201cThere\u2019s certain rhythms I just know how to get into. When I\u2019m up here with just the microphone, and no one knows what I look like, I\u2019m in that mode, and I can hopefully put on a good show.\u201d<\/p>\n

Minter has narrated the wins and losses of the Hurricanes since 2015, from announcing the team\u2019s starting lineup at every game to ringing in its Eastern Conference Final win to a crowd of screaming fans.<\/p>\n

To him that personality is almost fictitious \u2014 a part he says he\u2019s been playing since his early days as an improv comedian \u2014 ironically, playing a sports announcer. But after more than a decade in the PA seat, Minter\u2019s trademark growling shouts have become a mainstay for the Hurricanes fan base \u2013 with fans singing along with his musical yells during games and mimicking him off the ice.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of that character still in what I do,\u201d he said. \u201cMy training in improv has really allowed me to do some really cool moments where I see an opportunity to make things fun or funny or heighten them, and I can go for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

By day, the Wake Forest resident works as a tech executive for Suggestion Ox, an anonymous HR feedback platform he founded in 2015. But by night, he\u2019s back in the press box, delivering his rallying cries between each period \u2014 a side of his life that he says many of his co-workers don\u2019t know much about.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe circles intersect to some degree, but a lot of people who know me from the tech or business world don\u2019t know anything about the hockey, and vice versa,\u201d Minter said.<\/p>\n

But despite his role as a centerpiece of Hurricanes culture, Minter isn\u2019t a native North Carolinian. And he said he only started watching hockey after moving to the Raleigh area in 1999, a few years after graduating from college at William & Mary.<\/p>\n

The Canes moved to the Lenovo Center just months after Minter came to town \u2014 both he and the team newcomers to the Triangle. It didn\u2019t take long for him to become enamored, he said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI didn\u2019t know a lot about hockey, but there was a team coming, and my friends were excited about it,\u201d he said. \u201cSo I fell in love with the sport very quickly, because it\u2019s an easy sport to love.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the years that followed, Minter started playing adult recreational hockey and tried on handfuls of roles adjacent to athletics, like becoming a ring announcer for the Raleigh-based comedic wrestling group GOUGE Wrestling and working as the PA for the N.C. State club hockey team for more than 10 years.<\/p>\n

He tried out to become the Canes\u2019 announcer in 2015 and got the job shortly thereafter.<\/p>\n

Since then, Minter said he hasn\u2019t missed a single home game. He\u2019s sat behind a microphone for the past 505 matchups, forgoing sick days and personal engagements to carry fans through the highs and lows of the past 11 seasons.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always thought that if I miss a game, they\u2019re gonna find somebody better,\u201d he said. \u201cSo the way I don\u2019t let that happen is I don\u2019t miss a game.\u201d<\/p>\n

In recent years, Minter has started to pull back the curtain, filming videos of himself announcing the game from the press box to allow fans to put a face to the famous, booming voice and let them in on the performance. And he\u2019s made a tradition of handing out pages from his scripts to fans as a keepsake from the game.<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s one script that Minter couldn\u2019t help but keep for himself.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the page he gripped while announcing the Hurricanes as the Eastern Conference champions last month \u2014 something he\u2019d read twice before, but always for the opposing team. That page now hangs in his office, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been so close, so many times and come away with nothing,\u201d he said. \u201cThis team has been so good, and they\u2019ve gotten so close and have not been able to make it over that hump. You wonder if a curse has been put on you, like what\u2019s going on?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut being able to say the Carolina Hurricanes are the Eastern Conference champions for the first time since it happened in 2006 \u2014 that meant a lot to me,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Now, Minter is crossing his fingers for one more goal \u2014 announcing the team as the Stanley Cup champion.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I get the opportunity to say that, I\u2019ll shut off the part of my brain that\u2019s probably freaking out and I\u2019ll do my job,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd when the microphone is off and the talking is done, I\u2019ll probably sob because it doesn\u2019t get better than that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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