Inside the kitchen with Canes performance chef Sean Murnane :: WRALSportsFan.com

Inside the kitchen with Canes performance chef Sean Murnane :: WRALSportsFan.com

After six straight playoff appearances, the Canes and their Caniacs are starving for a Stanley Cup. WRAL’s Pat Welter and Kacy Hintz got a look at how the team’s performance chef Sean Murnane and his staff are fueling the playoff run.

You can say the keys are starving for a power play goal. Keynes fans hungry for that first Stanley Cup since 2006. And I’ll tell you what the organization has done everything they possibly can to try and satiate the appetite in the playoffs. Every team needs an edge meet Kane’s performance chef Sean Murnane. So I started cooking when I was little with my dad. Uh, he was a chef in the Marine Corps for 30 years. We’re getting the base for our, our Alfredo sauce going. He’s worked in the NFL MLB and is in his second season here. Performance chef is, you know, we’re really nutrition focused. You know, it’s about fueling the guys for success on and off the ice. Here’s another great tip. Hello right now is cooking up a few game day staples. That’s just a quick, easy chicken alfredo and class favorite. So we run through a lot of that every game alongside his sous chef, Ramo. What are you making, Ramon? Fueling the team on game day takes a lot of prep and even more food on a game day. We’ll go through about £45 of chicken just across all of our meals. Um, we’ll do £10 of salmon. You can’t cater to an entire team’s tastes without cracking a few eggs. You know, the first year was a lot of trial and error. The first year I, my goal is to not repeat a menu for a postgame meal. Um, so we did 41 different menus. You know, you get sick of food sometimes at the rink and at the hotels. But um he switches it up and um you know, every meal he makes is uh is solid and you got a lot of guys going over there and um taking food home or eating lunch here. And um definitely that’s changed since he’s been here. He’s got the international player’s approval. I know he did some Swedish meatballs, some uh Finnish dishes and uh yeah, it was good. But what about the world’s pickiest food critic Sean? Tell us a little bit about each of these dishes. So on our left here, we have a basic chicken Alfredo. So we also do a seared salmon and then we have a penne with a white wine and lemon sauce. Now, I’m the more adventurous between the two of us. In theory, I should eat the salmon. I love seafood, but I’ve never seen anything other than pizza and grilled chicken. So I thought we got to do the switch here. I’m gonna switch it up on her. There’s never a better time to awful putting the kid on the spot here. Yeah, just do that little, that little nibble right there. Popcorn is ready she shaking. What do you think? I’ll be honest. It’s not as fishy as I thought. I was expecting a lot more fishy. I feel like that probably comes to air or something like that. It’s ok. It was not that it was ok. It was good. Well, after about a half a plate of this, I don’t know. I’m feeling pretty good. What about you? I think these two reporters are fueled up and ready for a cup run. Casey Hins ate salmon and lives to tell the tale. That’s the only thing I tried that day. Either a locker room, favorite protein bites. And those also turned out to be pretty darn good. Yeah, they actually had a few more of them on the plate for us, but the guys already took some on the way. So, you know, we’re going to eat up as well right now Julie and it’s win or go home tonight. I’m so jealous of you guys. And Casey, what’s up with you in that? We got to talk about that later.

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