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 [...]

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]