Archive for September, 2007
Who’s Next
While today’s post title isn’t a song title, it is the title of one of the greatest rock albums of all time so I think it will suffice. Besides, it’s fits my topic better! The question of the moment is, who should the Canes hire to replace the recently “retiring”, Jason Karmanos? [...]
Old Time Rock and Roll
Old time hockey paid a visit to the RBC last night, and here is one fan who isn’t complaining! Granted, it was a sloppy game with poor passing and horrible offensive execution by the Canes, but quite frankly, I don’t think that they were concentrating much on improving their offensive execution. The Blue [...]
Take This Job and Shove It
The talk of the day is still about Jason Karmanos resigning from his position yesterday. In subsequent interviews, he said that he had been thinking about doing it for awhile. In my opinion, the timing of this seems a bit weird. While Jason said that the busy part of the year for [...]
Day Job
In shocking news this afternoon, Jason Karmanos resigned from his position as assistant general manager of the Carolina Hurricanes. He cited “personal reasons” for the resignation. I’m not a fan of big changes, and I don’t like the sound of this. I’m not even going to try to speculate about what [...]
Ohio
The Canes, (minus Brind’Amour, Hedican, Whitney, and LaRose) are in Columbus, Ohio, tonight, not to change the world like Mr. Young’s old song says, but to hopefully change the outcome of their woeful powerplay. They have been practicing on it every day, so hopefully they will see some positive results. The game is not scheduled [...]
Sweet Wine
Here at Canes Country, we have already talked about the new partnership between the Carolina Hurricanes and Duplin Winery, along with the announcement and release of their special commemorative wine, “T E N”, back in the “Have a Drink on Me” post a couple of weeks ago. But recently, we received an email [...]
Blame It On Me
The Canes lost to the Caps in over-time last night, 3-2. A couple of things seemed hauntingly familiar to me. The first obvious thing was the dismal power play, which was 0-6. That makes it 4-27 so far this pre-season, a whopping 14.8%! It’s certainly not showing the improvement that the [...]
Down the Road Tonight
Just a brief update with information about the game tonight. John Forslund reports that Bret Hedican will finally grace the team with his presence in a pre-season game. Seriously, best of luck Bret! We’ll see how that hip holds up when people aren’t holding back from hitting him. Contrary to [...]
Round and Round
As you wander around searching for hockey news on the information superhighway, you will be more and more likely to run across that familiar and friendly name, Canes Country! From time to time, yours truly will get emailed requests to do some extra writing or make some contributions for other sites. In [...]
Three Lock Box - Islanders Blog Box
The New York Islanders “Blog Box” is officially open for business! Twelve bloggers have been selected, (with more to come) and the links and introductions are all posted on the official Islanders home page under “news” on the heading menu. Imagine that! If you look at their pictures, they all look like [...]
Be Good Johnny
Last night the Canes lost their first exhibition game of the season to Nashville, 4-1. Let me start this post off by saying that obviously, I didn’t watch the hockey game. I was out of town yesterday and last night, so I didn’t even get to listen to it, (because it wasn’t [...]
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Put Your Lights On
The Predators were ready. The Canes were ready. The new public address dude in training was ready. Everyone was lined up at center ice waiting for the face-off, but due to some unknown technical difficulties, the lights stayed dim. Talk about a mood killer! After waiting a few minutes, the [...]
TV Crimes
One might say it’s a crime not to broadcast hockey games in HD TV in this day and age. Time Warner Cable has been a bit lacking in that regard. While Versus is broadcasting all NHL games in HD format this year, up until now the cable conglomerate hasn’t been able to transcend [...]
Road Rats
The Albany River Rats are starting to take shape now. Yesterday, the Carolina Hurricanes released 15 players who were sent to their minor league affiliate up north. The Rats who hit the road were: Justin Peters, Kevin Nastiuk, Dan Manzato, Wade Brookbank, Tim Conboy, Mark Flood, Joey Mormina, Steve Ward, Mike Angelidis, Nichlas [...]
Stay or Leave
How long can they stay? When will they have to leave? Those are the questions most of the Carolina Hurricanes prospects have to be asking themselves. Four of them got their answers last night and were re-assigned to their respective junior teams. Drayson Bowman, Justin McCrae, Harrison Reed, and Chris Terry [...]
Video Killed the Radio Star
A week or so ago, Joe Ovies from “850 The Buzz” posted a message on The Blog asking if any Canes bloggers would like to come into the studio to talk about the Hurricanes, the online community, and to discuss blogging in general. Of course having more curiosity than brains, I threw my hat [...]
Bittersuite
Looking around the NHL, there’s a little bitterness going on out there. First of all, Aaron Ward mouthed off a bit about The Hockey New’s prediction that his current team, the Boston Bruins, will end up in last place in the East. His exact quote was “There’s a reason why (those writers) are not [...]
Sooner or Later
While watching the first two periods of the game this afternoon, I was hoping that sooner or later something positive would happen to spark the Canes. The team was skating very tentatively, as if they were afraid to make a mistake. It certainly wasn’t the most exciting 2 periods of hockey. In [...]
First Impression
The line up has been set for Sunday’s first pre-season game against Washington and prospects will be trying their best to make a good first impression in front of fans as well as the coaches. Peter Laviolette is mixing up the lines and giving most of the rookies a chance to play with established veterans. [...]
You Wear it Well
The Canes Country poll this week has been a real donnybrook, one of the closest ever! The question was, “Which Cane should wear the “A”?” While Glen Wesley has been leading the way since day one, Ray Whitney fans have been trying hard to catch him up. With one day left, Glen [...]
Health and Happiness
Training camp is officially going, and once again the RBC is open for business! I’m going to keep this posting short because I’m planning on leaving for an early lunch and catching part of it. Before I leave though, I wanted to chat briefly about a couple of things I read yesterday and [...]
Riding the Storm Out
Yesterday, the topic of discussion here at Canes Country was about how sports coverage was expanding in the area. We posed a couple of questions as to how the current media would handle the sudden growth and competition. For instance, it’s been reported that Mark Roberts will be hosting a new Canes [...]
Information Wars
Sports coverage in the area is about to get very interesting. While 850 the Buzz and 620 the Bull have had virtual strangleholds for quite some time in the local radio sports talk market, a new contender is about to enter into the fray. According to a recent story in the News [...]
Are You Ready?
Are you ready Caniacs? The RBC Center is getting there. Late last week I mentioned to keep an eye out for the repainting of the surface as they prepared the ice. As you can see on the live RBC webcam, the new artwork is done and it looks pretty snappy. They [...]
Run With the Pack - Friesen’s Run a Huge Success
What a beautiful day yesterday! I made it to Pete Friesen’s 5K “Fun Run” and I’m glad I did. I couldn’t attend last year due to a scheduling conflict, but I will certainly try to make it in the future. It was definitely a lot of fun. I believe that [...]
Have a Drink on Me
The official Carolina Hurricanes Winery, Duplin Winery, released their special brew recently, a wine appropriately named “TEN”. Reminds me of an old Bo Derek movie! Will this wine be a perfect 10 as well? You’ll have to try it for yourself. The wine will be available almost everywhere, or any place locally where you would [...]
Tommy
The Carolina Hurricanes took a big step toward improving their young goalies yesterday when they signed past Stanley Cup champion and ex-Olympian Tom Barrasso as the new Director of Goalie Development. Barrasso enjoyed his previous stay in Raleigh so much that he decided to return to the area permanently. Luckily for [...]
She is Rising
A couple of weeks ago I posted news about the Storm Squad tryouts, (Clap your Hands), and that quite a few girls would be needed to replace some of the long time regulars who are leaving. One of those “retirees” is Holly Wilver, who also doubled as the Hurricanes primary singer of the “National [...]
The Emperor’s New Clothes
The wait is finally over!! The Carolina Hurricanes new jerseys have been released. Just click the link below to check out the photo gallery from the Hurricanes website. The look is pretty much as expected with the new white striping as shown previously on NHL08. The 10th anniversary patch is also [...]
The Right Thing to Do
On the Carolina Newswire service this morning, there was some Carolina Hurricanes related news. Realtor Linda Craft and REMAX One Realty, a major supporter of the Hurricanes is sponsoring a blood drive with the American Red Cross on Monday, September 10th. All donors will receive a gift bag and will be entered in [...]
Won’t Get Fooled Again
Well, it’s been a week and Bret Hedican hasn’t announced his retirement yet! I’m glad I took that comment last week by the “fanofhockey” with a grain of salt about Hedican’s impending retirement due to health concerns. (Once Bitten Twice Shy) Bret pretty much put an end to that rumor all by himself [...]
Gimme Shelter
There are still a few good hockey players out there without a home. With NHL training camps opening next week, one might think that it’s getting a bit late in the game to still be out there posturing and negotiating. Maybe these guys are at the point where they should be looking at [...]
Jeremy
Just a quick update. In the “truth is stranger than fiction” category, Jeremy Roenick was signed by the San Jose Sharks today. Yes, the same Jeremy Roenick who “retired” earlier this summer. I guess the Sharks had an extra 500K to throw around or maybe they figure that “JR” will keep [...]
Workin’ for a Livin’
Just a short post to salute all of us hard working son-of-a-guns out there! Happy Labor Day! Shockingly, during my daily Carolina Hurricanes related search this morning I came across an article about the hypothetical comeback of one Arturs Irbe, (or The Wall, as the author called him). At first [...]
Wake Me Up When September Ends
One more month until the regular season starts! I can’t wait, but actually September can get pretty exciting all by itself. Training camp will be open in less than 2 weeks and before you know it the boys will be flying up and down the ice just like old times. [...]
Katherine Fritsch
10/1/07 - Katherine is now the full-time anthem singer for the Hurricanes. We wish her the best of luck throughout the coming season!
3/8/07 - Update 6
Today we found out that Katherine didn’t win the Early Show’s “Living Room Live” competition. Opera singer Madeline Edwards won, from Goldsboro, NC. Congratulations to Madeline for [...]
