The Carolina Hurricanes are at the center of a real-life family feud.

Owner Peter Karmanos is being sued by his three sons over the matter of $105 million promised to them in his will. The problem is that Karmanos borrowed millions against the trust account to help fund his NHL club.

Back in June of 2013, Karmanos reportedly wrote a loan contract for more than $100 million, agreeing to pay interest installments until June, 2022, or one year following his death.

From Rod Meloni of Local 4 Detroit:

A lawsuit filed last Thursday says 'on or about April 21, Peter the third ... sent his father a notice of default of balance of principal and interest on the June 2013 note.'

The sons claim their father 'failed to timely cure such defaults and accordingly, on or about May 25, 2016 the entire balance of the June 2013 note ... more than $105 million ... would become immediately due and payable.'

The Karmanos sons filed a civil case against their father as a contract dispute.

One of the sons named in the suit, Jason Karmanos, was relieved of his duties as executive vice president and assistant general manager of the Hurricanes in September of 2013 as a result of a "family matter."

Karmanos was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2015 as a builder, an event not attended by his sons.

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With his Pittsburgh Penguins just three games away from capturing the Stanley Cup, defenseman Olli Maatta has just one thing on his mind, and it isn't his health.

The 21-year-old has been a medical anomaly over the last couple years. Having suffered several upper-body injuries, a run in with the mumps, and most shockingly a surgery to remove a cancerous tumour in his thyroid last season.

“It really wasn’t as heartbreaking for me as it sounded like. It wasn’t as bad," Maatta said on Media Day of the tumour, according to Sports Illustrated's Alex Prewitt. "I know there’s people that have way worse than I had it, and I can’t really compare what I had to what other people had.

"I felt like I had a target on my back. But it’s done and over with. There’s nothing I can do now. I'm just trying to live in the moment. I'm trying to enjoy this. I'm playing hockey. I'm in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. That's the biggest thing. I can't think about what happened last year."

While Maatta's battles with his numerous ailments have usually gathered more worry from teammates, coaches, and management, Maatta has remained calm and cool-headed and wants no special treatment, according to assistant general manager Bill Guerin.

"We were making dinners for him, asking if he wanted to stay certain places, bring his family around, he was like, 'Nah, I’ll be fine. I’ll be good on my own,'" Guerin says. "I don’t know. Just taking care of himself. He didn’t want the extra attention. He just wanted to get the procedure done and move on. I think he was very appreciative of that, but it was almost like, 'I'm okay. Don’t worry about me. I’m good.'"

Maatta hasn't escaped injury during the postseason either. He was sidedlined for three games after a headshot from Washington Capitals defenseman Brooks Orpik in the second round.

But still Maatta continues to patrol the club's second pairing while logging nearly 20 minutes of ice time most nights, simply doing whatever he can to help his team win, despite what may be ailing him.

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A loss to the Penguins in Game 2 on Wednesday in Pittsburgh could effectively sink the San Jose Sharks.

Since entering the NHL in 1991-92, the Sharks have never won a Stanley Cup Playoff series in which they've lost the opening two games, going 0-10 in that situation.

And in this history of the Final, a team that has lost the first two games has lost the series 44 of 49 times.

"You never want to go down 2-0 in a series," Sharks goalie Martin Jones said Tuesday, according to Curtis Pashelka of The Mercury News. "Whether you lose the first game, any game, you never want to lose two in a row in playoffs.

"That sense of urgency is going to be important for us."

The Sharks did have the NHL's best road record this past regular season (28-10-3), and have lost back-to-back games only once this postseason, Games 3 and 4 against the Predators, both of which were played in Nashville.

The last team to fall behind 0-2 and win the Cup was the Boston Bruins in 2011. They dropped Games 1 and 2 in Vancouver against the Canucks, then won all three games at home and came out on top in Game 7 as the visiting team.

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