All Entries in the "Frantisek Kaberle" Category
Familiar Foe: Olli Returns To RBC With Coyotes
Carolina will be looking for its first three-game winning streak of the season when the Phoenix Coyotes visit Raleigh tonight at 7 p.m. The game is the third of four straight home games for the Hurricanes, who won the first two games of the home stand, managing a 3-2 shootout win over Tampa Bay on Sunday [...]
Unanswered Questions
The Hurricanes are just five games into the season, and already several questions have come up about the team related to the big game tomorrow night in Pittsburgh. Let’s take a quick look at some of those questions and guess as to what the answers might be.
1. Who will start in goal?
Michael [...]
Leighton to Start in Anaheim
Michael Leighton will get the start in goal against the Ducks for tonight’s game in Anaheim. The back-up goalie has had one other start this season, a 4-3 overtime win at Tampa Bay.
Chip at LSB is also reporting that Eric Staal will be able to shrug off his sore shoulder and play in [...]
Canes Fall to Young Kings, 4-3 OT
The Carolina Hurricanes fought from behind to take a 3-1 lead, but ended up losing to the Los Angeles Kings in over-time late last night, by a score of 4-3.
In what is becoming a trademark for the Canes, they fell behind early as Michal Handzus beat Cam Ward, less than a minute into the [...]
Pitkanen on Wing? Say it Ain’t So
I couldn’t make it to practice this morning, but Chip Alexander posted a quickie over on LSB which got my attention. Time for me to put on my “columnist hat” and interject a little opinion.
Chip reported that Joni Pitkanen was wearing a white jersey this morning, and was practicing with the forwards. Specifically, [...]
Hopefully Sweet-Tasting Start Doesn’t Go Sour
Carolina started its season with two big come-from-behind victories against division foes, leaving fans enamored with the exhilarating play, never-say-die attidude and — most of all — four points.
There’s no denying that there are many pleasing things we can take away from this first weekend of Hurricanes hockey. The play of defensemen Joni Pitkanen, Frank [...]
Carolina Outscores Florida 6-4
In a wild and wooley back and forth game, the Hurricanes were able to find the back of the net a couple more times than the Panthers were able to, and came away with a 6-4 victory Friday night at the RBC. The Canes had six different goal scorers and netted two [...]
Under Pressure - Laviolette Stress Free?
Hurricanes beat writer Chip Alexander recently wrote an interesting story for the News and Observer’s Sunday edition. It seems that Jim Rutherford has finally given coach Peter Laviolette a public vote of confidence, something that hasn’t happened since the end of last season.
“I don’t want to enter the season with anybody being under the [...]
And The Cradle Will Rock - Youth Served on Hurricanes Blueline
The defense is starting to take shape for the Carolina Hurricanes. Not only does it look much bigger and different than before, but it is also a great deal younger than it has been for the past several years.
Gone is the veteran experience of Glen Wesley and Bret Hedican. They have been replaced by [...]
Injury Status Report - Q&A With Pete Friesen
Several readers have been asking about the current status of some of the injured Canes who were either unable to play, or who were not skating at 100% when the season unceremoniously came to an end last April. I decided to attempt to get in touch with the organization, to see if [...]
I Will Buy You a New Life - Any Buyouts For The Canes?
Now is the time that many NHL teams will seriously think about buying out the contracts of some over-paid and under-performing players. Ottawa’s Ray Emery is at the top of the list of possibilities, as well as Boston’s Glen Murray and Atlanta’s Alexei Zhitnik.
There are also rumors that Andrew Raycroft and Darcy Tucker of [...]
Back For More - Who Returns on Defense Next Year?
It’s going to be a long off-season, but it’s never too early to start discussing what the Carolina Hurricanes will look like next year. One area where most fans would like to see some change is on the blueline. The aging Carolina defense seemed slow to react and was porous at times, [...]
“Uh Oh” Corvo Lights up Old Team, Hurricanes 5 Senators 1
Joe Corvo, who was once dubbed “Uh Oh” Corvo by the Ottawa press, enjoyed a bit of retribution last night as he scored his first career hat-trick against his former team and helped the Carolina Hurricanes defeat the Ottawa Senators, 5-1.
The game was the first one between the teams since the huge trade in which [...]
Already Gone - Hurricanes 6 Thrashers 3
In my pre-game post yesterday, I mentioned how many of the Thrashers probably wanted to take the Marian Hossa and Dany Heatley route and get the heck out of Dodge, Atlanta. But after watching the game on Wednesday night, it appeared that a few of them have already checked out. The Hurricanes once [...]
The Best of Me - Players Have Career Years in Carolina
The current talk of the town is that Carolina’s pick up from the waiver wire in January, Sergei Samsonov has had a re-birth of sorts here with the Hurricanes. The skilled Russian sniper went from having zero goals and 4 assists in 23 games for Chicago to scoring 11 goals and 10 assists in [...]
Walk All Over You - Hurricanes 5 Thrashers 3
The Carolina Hurricanes totally dismantled the Atlanta Thrashers last night, 5-3 in a game that was not as close as the score. The Canes came out of the dressingroom fired up from the get-go and took it to the faltering Atlanta club all night long. After watching the Thrashers’ effort last [...]
Against All Odds - Hurricanes 5 Panthers 4
The Carolina Hurricanes defeated the Florida Panthers last night 5-4, overcoming adversity as well as bad odds. They were playing their first full game without their captain, Rod Brind’Amour. They were playing with 2 defensemen recovering from the flu. (Tim Gleason and Joe Corvo). They were playing with 5 skaters [...]
The Blame Game - Why Are The Canes Losing ?
The Carolina Hurricanes started off the season with an 11-4-3 record, built up a double digit lead in the Southeast Division, and were once considered among the top teams in the NHL. But their record in the past 30 games has been an embarrassing 12-17-1 and their lead in the division has evaporated. [...]
TV Dinners - Three More Years of Versus
It was announced the other day that Versus had picked up an option to broadcast NHL games for another 3 years. While this might be great for Versus, I still have my doubts whether or not this is good for the NHL in the long run. Is having league games televised on an [...]
Cut Across Shorty - Islanders 6 Hurricanes 3
The Carolina Hurricanes figured out yet another way to lose as they gave up 3 short-handed goals and fell to the New York Islanders last night, 6-3. You read that correctly, 3 short-handed goals. The Canes certainly tested the old saying that if you give up a “shortie”, you deserve to lose.
Other than [...]
The New Style - Avs 5, Hurricanes 4
Last night the Carolina Hurricanes figured out a new way to lose a hockey game. Well technically, they lost because of familiar reasons. They had consistently poor, loose defensive play in their own zone and it ended up killing them. But at least they did it after scoring an elusive first [...]
Strange Magic - Hurricanes 3, Maple Leafs 2
In a game with one of the craziest endings that you will see, the Carolina Hurricanes edged the Toronto Maple Leafs in overtime on Tuesday night by a score of 3-2. The Canes scored 2 goals in the final 85 seconds of regulation to tie the game and then scored again in OT [...]
Funk 49
The Carolina Hurricanes are in some kind of weird funk right now. Nothing seems to be going right for them. Friday night, the Calgary Flames came into town having just played the previous night as well as 2 nights before that. The Flames are in the middle of a killer cross continent [...]
That Smell
The Carolina Hurricanes laid another stink bomb on their home ice last night, and the fanbase is frustrated. One problem is, it’s not the first time that it’s happened this year. Another problem is, there doesn’t seem to be an easy fix. By the end of the 1st period, they were down [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Iron Man
The Caniac Nation is still reeling after getting hit with the Frantisek Kaberle surgery news on Monday. I mentioned in my last post that he was no “Iron Man”. Let’s take a quick look at his stats over his NHL career. The most games he has ever played in a season [...]
Shock the Monkey
In some real “shocking” news, the Carolina blueline took their first hit of the season already as Frantisek Kaberle had minor knee surgery on Saturday. Luke DeCock is reporting in Lord Stanley’s Blog that he will be out for at least 4 to 6 weeks while recovering from torn cartilage removal. Kaberle was [...]
The Rising
Last night the Canesvision people played last year’s playoffs theme song “The Rising” during the warmups. The players noticed and as did the coach. The Hurricanes came out hitting and skating like it was a playoff game from the drop of the puck to the final horn. They outhit the Penguins 41-19 [...]
C’est La Vie
“Such is life”, the Canes beat the Habs again! Ever since the Miracle at Molson back in 2002, the Montreal Canadiens seem to have been the cure for what ails the Carolina Hurricanes. It happened again last night as the Canes put an end to their 4 game losing streak and actually [...]
Rumors in the Air
The NHL rumor mongers are out in full force and of course the Hurricanes are right in the middle of them. But first things first, Frantisek Kaberle has been cleared to play tonight in Montreal! This will be the first game of the season for Frank, and he couldn’t have picked a better [...]
No More Mr. Nice Guy
The last time the Leafs came into town, I was singing songs about friendship and reunions and how nice it was the see Coach Mo behind the bench again. Also, Bates Battaglia was back in town along with buddy Jeff O’Neill. Wasn’t life grand? The only problem was that we ended up [...]
Let’s Get it Started
The All Star break is over. The first half of the season has flown by. It’s getting down to crunch time, time to start to separate the men from the boys, the contenders from the pretenders, and the playoff teams from the rebuilding ones. It’s time for the Canes to step [...]
Cat Scratch Fever
The Hurricanes are in southern Florida again to take on the Panthers tonight. The only problem is that the puddy cats are still steamed about the way they lost control of that freaky game last week when the Canes scored 5 goals in 9 minutes and 6 goals total in the 3rd period and [...]
Georgia on my Mind
The Canes are back in Atlanta tonight to take on division rival and the division leading Thrashers. The Canes are 2-0 so far against this regional foe but remain 7 points back in the standings as the Thrashers have accumulated 19 points compared to the Cane’s 12. Eric Staal and Rod Brind’Amour lead Carolina in [...]
Frankie……
This just in, Frank Kaberle’s shoulder has not improved and he had surgery today. He is out for 4-6 months. I guess Rutherford knew what he was doing when he invited (or accepted the invitation) of Tanabe for lunch! This is a sad event for Frank and Caniacs but again one [...]
