Carolina Hurricanes Around the Boards: Jonathan Drouin, Tim Gleason, and Cup Checks
Welcome to the inaugural Cardiac Cane ‘Around the Boards’, the one stop you need to keep up with everything surrounding the Carolina Hurricanes.
This will be a weekly compilation of the best Carolina Hurricanes stories and editorials from Cardiac Cane and other great sources from around the web. This will become your go-to place to catch up on anything you might have missed as the week winds down.
We also want our fans and followers to help us make this posting the best it can be. Please send us any Hurricanes stories you enjoyed during the week so we can share it with Cardiac Cane Nation.
Let’s start with ‘The Best of The Best from Cardiac Cane’
- With the web full of talk about where Jonathan Drouin will end up, we decided to put our head in the lion’s mouth, and throw some potential trade combinations the Canes could consider. We certainly felt the love/hate from Canes fans.
- On Wednesday goalie Cam Ward was placed on injured reserve with a concussion. Here are the details.
- Back in October proposed renovations to the PNC Arena were unveiled. Here’s the latest update.
- Coach Peters let everyone know how he feels about some of his key players, old and new. Read here what he had to say.
- The Hurricanes are proving all the early-season naysayers wrong by being solidly in the playoff hunt as we approach the All Star break.
- Speaking of the All Star Game, we wanted to give the NHL our two-cents on how to make the All Star Game better. Let us know what you think.
- After a slow start, Andrej Nestrasil is showing real skill and promise as the season progresses. We break it down for you here.
And now we have news from ‘Hurricanes Around the Boards’
- The Raleigh News & Observer’s Luke DeCock wrote a good piece about Tim Gleason’s new role as a player mentor for the Canes.
- On their MvsW podcast this week on Sportsnet, Marek & Wyshynski interviewed Coach Peters about the season and how the Canes are starting to roll. (Audio file)
- In light of the Hurricanes improved play of late, and their position in the playoff chase, OnePuckShort asked the internet if Carolina had been playing possum with everyone early in the season.
- Mike Maniscalco of WRALSportsFan makes a great case for Toronto to follow the lead of Philadelphia and Carolina and retire Rod Brind’Amour’s number.
- Section 328.com posted a good piece about Coach Peters’ system of a defense-first, and how the Canes are buying into it this season.
- The Hockey News also had glowing things to say about the Hurricanes Young Gun defensemen, even if they do start the article with a dig about the Canes playoff chances.
- ESPN tried to make the case that the Florida Panthers may be the best fit for Eric Staal if General Manager Francis decides to move him…and Staal waives his no-move clause.
- Mark Jones, of TodaysSlapShot.com wrote a good piece about the instability of the Canes goaltending during the first half of the season.
- Chicago’s unbeaten streak of 12 games was broken Thursday night by Tampa Bay. The Hawks visit Raleigh on Sunday.
And finally, we’ll throw in an interesting, odd, or in this case, painful story from the NHL. We call them ‘NHL Odds and Ends’
- This week we had to share Matt Hendricks’ unfortunate blocking of a shot Thursday night. Beware…there’s video!