Childhood friends from Canada cheer Seth Jarvis at Lenovo Center

Lucas Humble, Lucas Fry, Matt McLeod, Sloan Tremblay, Bryan Hanna and Noah Wagner did not come to Raleigh as ordinary visitors. The six childhood friends, who call themselves the Good Ol’ Canadian Boys, traveled from Canada to Lenovo Center to cheer on Seth Jarvis in the Stanley Cup playoffs, turning one Hurricanes game into a reunion built on years of hockey history.

Their connection to Jarvis goes back to middle school hockey, long before he became a recognizable NHL forward and one of Carolina’s most watchable playoff players. ABC11 identified the group and said the friends came south this week to support their longtime friend and former teammate. Their trip, documented on social media from the flight to the drive to their arrival in Raleigh, showed how a playoff run can live both in the arena and online, with a fan base that travels as a group and tells the story as it goes.

The visit carried extra weight because this was not their first long haul for Jarvis. NHL coverage said the same group drove 25 hours from Winnipeg to Raleigh for a 2025 playoff game, rented a minivan for the trip, and later made a 30-hour drive from Winnipeg to Boston for the 4 Nations Face-Off final against the United States. They also traveled to Milan for the 2026 Olympics. In other words, the Raleigh stop was part of a pattern, not a one-off appearance.

Jarvis, a Winnipeg, Manitoba native born Feb. 1, 2002, has become the kind of player friends will cross borders to see. Hockey Canada lists him as a Carolina forward drafted 13th overall by the Hurricanes in 2020, and Team Canada has included him on rosters for both the 2025 4 Nations Face-Off and the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympic Winter Games. That rise from middle school hockey to NHL and international play is what gave the friends’ trip its emotional pull.

The timing made it even better. In Game 2 of the Hurricanes’ second-round series, Carolina beat the Philadelphia Flyers 3-2 in overtime at Lenovo Center on May 4, 2026. Jarvis scored in the third period to force overtime, and Taylor Hall finished it at 18:54 of the extra frame. For the friends in the building, it was the kind of night that explains why Raleigh has become a destination for Hurricanes fandom: the arena was not just a venue, but a place where old teammates could watch one of their own keep climbing.