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The Mark XXXVI Bolo Rolls Back Into Raleigh

02 Aug 2006 @ 9:48 PM

Hurricanes sign Jesse Boulerice, WWE fans rejoice.

Actually, that’s really not fair to Jesse–I don’t think he’s much of a WWE kind of guy.

But anyway. The Day of the Brawler (as in, “does nothing but fight”) is pretty much over, and Jesse knows this–or if he didn’t before, he certainly got that wake-up call when he was traded to the Blues right before the Canes’ stretch run. See, Jesse was actually improving as a player in the 03-04 season. However, for some inexplicable reason he decided not to sign a contract anywhere during Ragnarok. Why?Â I have no idea. But all the improvement that he was starting to show toward the end of the last season pretty much went *pffft*, and believe me it showed post-Ragnarok. Despite his efforts to get back to where he was, it just wasn’t happening–and his temper started flaring again (there was one incident in a practice here right around December or so where Bolo got into a fight with Martin Gerber, and one Blues blogger reported about an incident involving Jesse deliberately taking a run at a teammate in St. Loo). Those two incidents had me thinking that Bolo may be effectively done careerwise, but if I’m hearing right from a few buddies on a couple boards, Bolo might have a very important ally in his quest to get his career back on track:

The Warchief.

If the Warchief is on Bolo’s side, then who the hell am I to argue?