Archive for November, 2007
Wrecking Ball
Could Mark Recchi be on his way back to Carolina? He’s been healthy scratched by the Pens for several games lately, and the word in Pittsburgh is that they want to move him. Do the Canes have room for him? He’s well-liked by the room and by fans and could be [...]
Always Tell the Voter What the Voter Wants to Hear
The past day or so I have been reading a lot about the All Star game voting. A couple of articles I came across made me think about and question my “fanhood”. As I mentioned in a posting a few days ago, I’m not very excited about the voting [...]
Beverly Hills
The Canes will be making their way back to Beverly Hills at least every other year again, as the NHL Board of Governors approved a new scheduling format last night. Each team will play other teams within their division 6 times now instead of 8. They continue to play other teams within their [...]
The Memory Remains
Last night’s score was, Flyers 3, Hurricanes 1. I think that the Canes might have forgotten that they wanted payback for last week’s loss because the Flyers definitely wanted the game more than Carolina did. Let me try to paint a picture here. The Canes repeatedly fail to clear the zone. [...]
Cheap Shot
The Philadelphia Flyers are in town to play the Hurricanes tonight, and I would be remiss if I didn’t say the words “cheap shot” in the same breath as “Flyers”. What is it with these guys? Scott Hartnell, whom I’ve already lambasted on this blog for being the most over-paid agitator in [...]
Schmap!
Last week I received an interesting email from one of the people at Schmap.com. It seems that they came across Canes Country Blog and thought that we might be a good showcase site to help with the upcoming release of their new Schmap widget! After testing the widget to see if it [...]
Small Talk
There’s lots of small talk going on in the Caniac Nation about the Hurricanes defense. John Forslund discusses it in his latest blog posting, “Is it Time”?. Luke DeCock talks about it in his latest post on Lord Stanley’s Blog, “Kaberle or Seidenberg”? The messageboards have been ripe with the discussions [...]
Big Shot
The Toronto Maple Leafs are supposedly looking for a “big shot” to take over for struggling general manager, John Ferguson. Some of the names mentioned as possible replacements include, Mark Messier, Steve Yzerman, and Ron Francis. Personally, I don’t think that Francis would accept that position, but I guess you never [...]
I’m So Excited - Not
The NHL All Star ballots were released last week, and I’m sorry to say that I’m really not all that excited about it. First of all, the fans just vote to see who starts the game, not who actually makes the team. While I’m sure that it is an honor to start, it [...]
Half
The Hurricanes lost to the Washington Capitals last night, 5-2. The Capitals jumped out to a 3-0 lead before Erik Cole muscled his way around and through 2 Caps, then slipped one past Olaf Kolzig with just a few clicks left in the 2nd period. I believe that was the highlight of [...]
Quickie
Just a quick update before the Capitals game. The Caps won in OT last night, giving new coach Bruce Boudreau a victory in his debut. Needless to say, Washington will still be fired up to impress their new coach. The Canes need to stay focused and keep up the intensity that they [...]
Third Stone From The Sun
The third period was the charm last night for the Hurricanes as they beat the Lightning 4-3 in an exciting game at the RBC. After falling behind 3-1 and playing one of their worst periods of the year in the second, (3 shots on goal), they came out of the locker room and opened [...]
Questions 67 and 68
The Carolina Hurricanes play the Tampa Bay Lightning tonight at the RBC and at the moment there are more questions than answers. A couple of facts that we do know are that the Lightning have lost 2 in a row and the Canes have lost 3 of their last 4. Tampa [...]
A Little Discipline
The Hurricanes lost to the Flyers tonight, 6-3. What went wrong? I think quite a few things did, but in my opinion the major problem was a lack of discipline. Justin Williams showed no discipline as he continually chirped about penalties until he was finally given a 2 minute unsportsmanlike call [...]
Fly Away
The Carolina Hurricanes take on the Philadelphia Flyers tonight, and let me just “objectively” say that I hope the Flyers “Fly Away” back home with a loss! The Flyers are riding a 2 game losing streak including a 6-2 beatdown by New Jersey, (when Martin Brodeur won his 500th game), on Saturday night. [...]
Cocaine - More Thoughts about Blogging
There have been several recent articles again about blogs, blogging, bloggers, and various perceptions of such. One article really struck home with me which is titled Blogs Are Fine With Me, by Detroit Red Wings beat writer Bruce MacLeod. It seems that Bruce has an addiction problem and considers himself to be a [...]
“Take Ten” with Dan Mason
Dan Mason co-hosts the new sports talk radio show, “The Fanatics” every weekday morning from 6-9 on 99.9 The Fan! Dan also contributes to the station’s blog, which you can check out here. He plans to help out his partner, Mike Maniscalco by hosting Canes Corner on occasion. By the [...]
A Little of This and That
After playing 6 games in 9 days, the Hurricanes have a well deserved couple of days break in their schedule. They took a complete day of rest on Sunday, then they were back to practice yesterday. As Luke points out, for the first time in a long time the whole roster was on [...]
“Q&A” with Chris Clark
Chris Clark has been at 850 The Buzz since 1998 and serves in many capacities at the station. He’s the co-host of the afternoon show with David Glenn which is on the air weekdays from 3-7PM. He also serves as host of the pre-game “Stormfront” and post-game “Aftermath” shows which are broadcast before [...]
Old Man
The “old man” of the team, Glen Wesley reached another milestone on Saturday night as he played in his 1400th career NHL game! Only 9 other defensemen in NHL history have ever achieved that. If he can play the majority of games the rest of the year he could eventually move up to [...]
Slow Ride
The Hurricanes were shut out by the Atlanta Thrashers last night, 3-0. I’m naming this post “Slow Ride” because it seemed to me like everything was in slow motion for this game. The passing was too slow, the shots were too slow, and the hitting was slow or soft or non-existent, whatever [...]
Russian Roulette –UPDATE
Just one more short note about the game tonight that I forgot to mention earlier. The only referee to call diving on the Canes all year, Brad Watson will be one of the refs for tonight’s game. Yep, the same Brad Watson who called diving on Justin Williams for being tackled and [...]
Russian Roulette
Look who is leading the NHL in goals scored! It’s the Southeast Division’s “other” Russian sensation, Ilya Kovalchuk. Kovalchuk has 15 goals and 10 assists in just 18 games so far this year and has been on a real tear of late scoring 21 points in his last 12 games. A [...]
Down on the Corner
Just a reminder for those of you who live south of town, Canes Corner will be at the Bass Lake Ale House in Holly Springs tonight. I haven’t seen much advertising about this one, but Tim Gleason will be the guest. For those of you who would like more information about Canes Corner, [...]
Ugly
I’m not going to over-analyze the game last night. Quite simply, the Lightning beat the Hurricanes 6-1. Vincent Lecavalier went hog wild, scoring 3 goals and earning 5 points. It was a total team meltdown by Carolina. There is no need to single out any particular player because after the [...]
Mr. Roboto
Great news for all of you David Tanabe fans out there! Lorenzo Perez just reported on Lord Stanley’s Blog that Peter Laviolette said most likely that neither Erik Cole or Andrew Ladd will play tonight. Cole sitting I can understand, but it sounded like Ladd was about ready to go. Could [...]
Radio Ga Ga
Prepare yourselves hockey fans! The NHL’s fearless leader is about to hit the airwaves. It was recently announced that XM Radio would broadcast a new show titled “NHL Hour” in which league executives, including Mr. Gary Bettman himself, would host a candid, interactive talk radio show! “NHL Hour will provide fans [...]
“Take Ten” with Luke DeCock
If you have ever read anything in the print media about the Carolina Hurricanes over the past several years, it’s very a good chance that some of it was written by Luke DeCock. Not only is Luke the lead Hurricanes “beat writer” for the News and Observer, he is also a correspondent for The [...]
Somebody Get Me a Doctor
Erik Cole took another nasty tumble last night and was carted off the ice on a stretcher. John Forslund and Lorenzo Perez both reported that the injury didn’t appear to be serious, but Cole was taken to Cleveland Clinic in Weston, Florida as a precaution. Erik was moving his extremities at the rink [...]
Hello Kitty Kat
Tonight the Canes find themselves in Sunrise, Florida again to take on those howling kitty cats. The teams are 1 and 1 so far this year, with both of them beating each other by the identical score of 4-2. The start time for the game is at 7:30 and it will be broadcast [...]
Ron Francis Hockey Hall of Fame Tribute
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Former Carolina Hurricanes captain and current Assistant General Manager, Ron Francis is being officially inducted into the hockey hall of Fame tonight. He’ll be joined by Mark Messier, Scott Stevens, and Al MacInnis, all worthy Hall of Fame candidates in their own right. While we offer congratulations to all 4 inductees, Canes [...]
Fast and Loose
The Hurricanes beat the Thrashers 5-3 last night in a fun game to watch that had almost non-stop action. The offense was fast, the defense was loose, and both teams let it all hang out. The game basically boiled down to goalkeeping, and fortunately for the Hurricanes their Conn Smythe award winner [...]
Immigrant Song
It was reported in the paper this morning that Dennis Seidenberg has some sort of immigration issue and needed time off to straighten out his VISA mess. Hurry back Dennis! Apparently, Seidenberg took the rest of the Hurricanes defense with him when he left town because they never showed up at the RBC [...]
Lightning Strikes
So far this season, Lightning has only struck at home for Tampa Bay. The Bolts have a great 6-1-1 record at home, but have yet to win a single game on the road where their record is 0-7-0. Apparently, they played pretty well at home again last night and beat the Panthers [...]
“Take Ten” with Joe Ovies
Our next guest for “Take Ten” is Joe Ovies, co-host on the “Morning Drive” which is the morning talk show for 850 The Buzz! I had the pleasure of meeting Joe a couple of months ago when he invited me and two other bloggers into the studio for a Hurricanes bloggers roundtable, and in [...]
Your offense might be deep if…
What a month of October, and November is already setting up to hopefully be a good one to try to run away and hide from the division. As Bubba pointed out, the Canes lead the league in goals right now.
Here are a few illustrations of the depth of the Canes’ offense right now. I would [...]
She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy
Cory Stillman scored a natural hat-trick in the first period, Cam Ward earned a shut-out, and Eric Staal added two more goals as the Carolina Hurricanes buried the Washington Capitals last night, 5-0. Stillman’s hat-trick won some lucky fan a tractor! (not the one pictured above.) The Canes powerplay cut through [...]
Redemption Song - Part 2
Tonight the Hurricanes need to redeem themselves once again as the Washington Capitals come to town to face Carolina for their 2nd meeting this year. The first time the two teams met in Washington, the Canes forgot to show up and the Capitals outplayed them badly, eventually shutting out the hapless Hurricanes 2-0. John Grahame’s [...]
Redemption Song
The Carolina Hurricanes redeemed themselves with a win over the Florida Panthers on Saturday night by the same score that they were beaten by in their previous meeting, 4-2. The game had a couple of unlikely heroes. Matt Cullen slapped in a rebound for the game’s first score just 26 seconds into the [...]
Driven to Tears
Last year’s tears finally worked for the Florida Panthers. Everyone from their players, to their coach and general manager cried. Soon the media caught on. They cried hard and they cried long. The Carolina players actually had the nerve to fall down when they got hooked, pushed, clutched, and grabbed, and [...]
