Carolina Hurricanes host first-ever moms trip in franchise history

BarDown Staff

Justin Williams and his mother , Twitter/NHLCanes

The fathers trip has become an annual thing across the NHL as teams pick out specific road trips during the season to take the players’ fathers on the road with them.

#TBLightning team pic w/ dads. Domingue’s father came the furthest, 16 hour flight from Ethiopia (doing documentary) pic.twitter.com/oEhkEXyPXM
— Joe Smith (@TBTimes_JSmith) February 12, 2018

This week, the Carolina Hurricanes are switching things up for their one-game road trip to New Jersey as they’ll be hosting the first-ever moms trip.

This one's for the #CanesMoms. pic.twitter.com/Yy4nkRFeiB
— Carolina Hurricanes (@NHLCanes) February 14, 2018

The Hurricanes players’ moms joined the team at practice on Wednesday afternoon before the team departed for New Jersey.

This one's for the moms. ♥️ The #Canes took some photos after today's practice before embarking on the first ever #CanesMoms Trip.

A post shared by Carolina Hurricanes (@nhlcanes) on Feb 14, 2018 at 11:41am PST

About time mom got some love after dad selfishly hogged all the fathers trips https://t.co/f7OlBZLHke
— Justin Williams (@JustinWilliams) February 14, 2018

While this will mark the first-ever moms trip in Carolina Hurricanes history, it isn’t the first one to take place in the NHL. Last season the Boston Bruins hosted a moms trip when they visited the Pittsburgh Penguins, while the New Jersey Devils hosted their first-ever moms trip this past weekend in Columbus.