Archive for February, 2010

10:25pm Almost 3/4ths the way through the first period. Both teams seem cautious and Slovakia is 0-2 on the power play 10:31pm Team Finland heading to their first power play just under 2 minutes left in the opening period, pretty even game so far. 10:32pm Team Finland gets on the board first with slap shot from Hometown Canuck Salo 1-0 Team Finland 10:36pm We have reached the first intermission with Team Finland leading 1-0, The shots on goal during the first period were Finland 12 and Slovakia 5 10:51pm Starting the 2nd period 10:56pm Team Slovakia seems to have more [...]

It’s been kind of quite around Raleigh since the Olympics have began, but the Olympics have been awesome so far. All of the Hurricanes have advanced to the gold metal round. Eric Staal has been the most notable scoring 1 goal and 5 assists, while Joni Pitkanen has a goal and and assist followed by Tuomo Ruutu’s goal. The Hurricanes have began practice and will not be with the services of Staal, Ruutu, Pitkanen, and Gleason til at least Sunday. The hope is that the Hurricanes will pick up right where they left off before the break. The big question [...]

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The Carolina Hurricanes have their first five game winning streak of the season.  The Hurricanes came out a little sluggish in the first period and ask rookie goalie Justin Peters to keep them in the game.  Then at 16:46 of the 1st Zack Boychuk slid one past Martin Brodeur for his first NHL goal and it only got better from there for the Hurricanes.  In the second period the Hurricanes would draw a 5 on 3 power play which say Ray Whitney score at 4:34 and 5:34 of the 2nd period to make it 3-0 Carolina.  The Hurricanes would head [...]

The Carolina Hurricanes last game before the break sees them take on the new look New Jersey Devils and Ilya Kovalchuk.  The Devils are competing for 2nd in the Eastern Conference.   The Devils have won the only two meetings this season in Newark 2-0 and 4-2, both games were stolen by Martin Brodeur.  The Hurricanes are one of the hottest teams in the NHL right now winning eight or their last ten games including four in a row and five in a row at home.  Devils are 2-3 since trading for Kovalchuk and are also looking to end the pre-Olympic [...]

Yesterday afternoon shortly before the Olympic freeze the Hurricanes moved one of the main Stanley Cup pieces in Matt Cullen.  Cullen, who will be an un-restriced free agent, was moved for defenseman Alexander Picard and a 2010 2nd round pick.  Cullen has 12 goals and 28 assist this season, but the Senators are more interested in his playoff experience.  Cullen has a total of 8 goals and 28 points in the playoffs in his career with the bulk coming in Carolina.  Alexander Picard will add a stable puck moving defenseman to the Hurricanes roster with the possibility of resigning Cullen [...]

The Carolina Hurricanes announced yesterday that the Albany River Rats have been sold to Charlotte Checkers owner Michael Kahn.  Rutherford said the Carolina organization approached Kahn about a year ago with an offer that if he acquired an AHL franchise, the Hurricanes would be their parent club.  “When we looked at our vision of hockey in North Carolina, it wasn’t just about going to Raleigh,” said Jim Rutherford, the Hurricanes’ longtime general manager. “It was about growing the sport throughout the whole state. We really feel that this is a huge step forward for hockey in North Carolina and the [...]