Archive for December, 2006
Turn the Page
The Carolina Hurricanes against the Buffalo Sabres. It doesn’t get much better than this for fans of the “new” NHL! Both teams are motivated to play hard. Both teams have speed and skill galore. But the Hurricanes have yet to beat the Sabres this season, so it’s time for them to [...]
Better Man
Regardless of how well or poorly Carolina played last night, the better team won. While both teams struggled at times, the Canes had the better chances and skated a better overall game. They also outhit the Panthers 50-33. After several near misses in the 1st period during which Carolina attempted 3 straight power plays and came away [...]
Holiday
Happy Boxing Day to our Canadian friends! The Canes are back to business tonight as Florida flies to town on game day to take on the Canes. Because of the Christmas break, teams were not allowed to travel yesterday which would have been normal procedure for visiting teams across the league. We’ll have to watch and see if [...]
Minute by Minute
The Canes didn’t have their legs or their A game last night but were still able to manufacture a win. They were outhit 29-17, outshot 36-17, and loss the faceoff battle 29-25, but played the game minute to minute and literally stole the 2 points and overtime win. After falling behind quickly [...]
Fight the Good Fight
What excitement at the RBC last night! The Canes dominated once again and lit the lamp early and often. Brindy started off the scoring with a very tight angled shot off of his own rebound. Then Willie scored the next one on a wrister, both of these coming on power plays. At the end of [...]
Snowblind
Garth Snow’s Islanders are in town tonight for a showdown with the Canes. Yes, the same Garth Snow who turned from goalie/goon to NHL General manager overnight! When I first heard of Garth being appointed Islander GM, I thought it was a joke, but pictures don’t lie.
I wonder of Garth has changed [...]
Be My Number Two
Two wins in a row, mark it down! Last night the Canes owned the Flyers everywhere but on the scoreboard. While Carolina refused to allow a goal during the entire 1st period for the first time in recent memory, (okay, so I have short term memory loss), they were called for the first 3 penalties of the game which [...]
Start Me Up
The Hurricanes are looking to start up a winning streak tonight. They are in the City of Brotherly Love, a city which has been on the wrong side of winning games lately. While the Eagles are recovering from a slow start and may still make the playoffs, the 76er’s and Flyers have been down right [...]
Thunderstruck
The Lightning were thunderstruck Saturday night! The Hurricanes stopped their bleeding with a win, and now the Boltz need the tourniquet. Both teams played a good game and both goalies made multiple amazing saves to keep their respective teams in it, but the Canes played a bit better and Cam Ward turned out [...]
Round and Round
It was another frustrating night in the RBC last night. It’s hard to figure out this team. They look good in some spots in a game, but look really bad in others. One problem is that when they do look bad, the other team usually takes advantage. Another problem is that [...]
My Friends
Some old friends are in town for a hockey game tonight. Paul Maurice, Jeff O’Neill, Bates Battaglia, and Randy Ladouceur, all past members of this organization join the rest of the Toronto Maple Leafs at the RBC tonight to take on our Canes. What is it between the Leafs and the Canes? The franchises seem [...]
House Party
The Canes had themselves a busy little day yesterday, considering that it was a perfect opportunity to take an “off” day. Which begs the question, do NHL players ever truly have an “off” day? Not if they win the Cup, they don’t! Most of them started off the morning in the RBC [...]
Only One
Only one point earned on the four game road trip. Only one point earned out of a possible eight. The Canes are back home, finally after this marathon road trip where they seemingly played the part of sacrificial lamb to the teams of the Northwest Division. Hopefully the guys enjoyed the [...]
Take it to the Limit
The Hurricanes want to pick it up and take it to the limit, tonight. They need this game! They’ll arrive back home late tonight and won’t have another game until Friday night against the Leafs at the RBC. Leave it all on the ice tonight boys!
But there are many unanswered questions before [...]
Crazy
That game last night seemed a bit crazy to me. It started out normal enough and pretty well for Carolina. The Canes came out with good jump and created quite a few scoring chances while limiting the Canucks to a few. Roberto Luongo made save after save, stoning the Canes like he [...]
Get Back
The Hurricanes will play the Vancouver Canucks tonight in a late game for us, starting at 10PM eastern. The boys have lost two games in a row now, the first two games of this arduous road trip. Somehow, they need to get back to what they were doing on the [...]
Remedy
The Canes need a remedy. It’s hard to tell how much effort is really being spent when you watch a game on TV and I think the Canes tried harder last night than they did the previous, but they look tired and beat up right now. Eric Staal’s legs are moving, [...]
Another One Bites The Dust
Another tough game, what can you say? The Flames out-played us, just that simple. That’s 4 shutouts this year already and the end to our huge 2 game winning streak. Congrats to the Flames for their 8th win in a row at home. Oh well, I don’t have much more to [...]
Rocky Mountain Way
The Canes will begin a 4 game road trip starting off in the scenic Rocky Mountains tonight. The Calgary Flames host Carolina and I’m sure the Saddledome will be full and loud. This will be the first time former Flame Mike Commodore will play in Calgary since we stole him from them for [...]
My Stars
To quote Dick Enberg, “Oh My!!” There were some gorgeous goals last night by the Hurricanes. The first goal of the night was a nice wrister by Eric Staal off of his own rebound on a shot that was eerily similar to his very first goal in the NHL. Kevyn Adams started [...]
Photograph
A photo is worth a thousand words, right? In case you missed it Thursday night, Cam Ward is sporting a fancy new mask and his mask is worth a thousand words. Check this out….
This picture is taken right from the manufacturing website, www.sportmask.com. It seems the mask is a tribute [...]
Message in a Bottle
Everyone was talking about the private, closed door meetings that coach Peter Laviolette was having with players after practice on Wednesday because they lost 3 out of the past 4 games by wide margins. Was he yelling and screaming? Did he throw stuff? Did he question their manhood or sense of [...]
