All Entries in the "John Forslund" Category
What Everyone’s Saying
Here’s some opinions on the Laviolette firing/Maurice hiring from around the league:
Bob Sutton at Burlington, N.C.’s The Times-News:
Looking for the good ol’ days won’t be easy. Conveniently, Maurice is referred to by the team as the winningest coach in franchise history. Left out of that information is that he’s also the losingest coach.
But general manager Jim [...]
Broadcasters Take Center Stage
Hurricanes broadcasters, John Forslund and Chuck Kaiton will both be front and center reporting for local news sources again this year.
Kaiton is the Hockey Hall of Fame voice of the Canes and can be found doing radio play-by-play on 99.9 FM, “The Fan”. But rival, “850 The Buzz” has also enlisted Kaiton’s services for [...]
Matt Murley “Pulls a Radulov” - Now AWOL in Russia
During the offseason, the Carolina Hurricanes signed forward Matt Murley to a two-way, one year contract. Murley was originally drafted in the second round in 1999 by Pittsburgh, had 21 goals with 62 points for San Antonio last year, and is an RPI graduate. Fans from Albany were looking forward to watching the [...]
Leighton and Canes Hold on to 1-0 Win
The Carolina Hurricanes defeated the Philadelphia Flyers at the RBC yesterday by a score of 1-0. The victory was the first for the Canes this preseason and gave them an overall record of 1-3, with two more games to play.
Sergei Samsonov was the number one star of the game. Not only did he score [...]
McCarthyism- Kevin “Cato” McCarthy Speaks
Late last week, the Hurricanes held a special function for “VIP’s” and during the festivities, John Forslund interviewed Hurricanes Associate Head Coach, Kevin McCarthy. Fortunately, Kate Shefte of the Independent Weekly was there to take notes and write an article about the affair.
McCarthy started off talking about the upcoming rule changes-
When asked about [...]
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 [...]
Q&A with John Forslund - Part Two
Continued from Part One which can be found here.
Q. FSN has agreed to cover 65 games this year. Luke DeCock recently wrote an article claiming that there were “holes” in the coverage. How do you feel about the deal? Do you think the franchise will ever be in the position to have all 82 games [...]
Q&A with John Forslund - Part One
We receive emails everyday from a variety of sources, but last week I found one in the inbox which was a bit of a surprise. John Forslund sent an email, complimenting us on having a great blog site. Now there is something that you don’t see everyday!
Of course, I replied and [...]
“Fun Fest” Highlights
I went over to the RBC last night to check out how the Carolina Hurricanes first “Fun Fest” was going. I’m not very good at guessing the number of heads in a crowd, but if I had to make a guess I would say that there were probably a few hundred people in attendance.
While [...]
Tumbling Dice - Signing Free Agents is a Gamble
Tomorrow will be the beginning of a new era for several free agents who will receive a contract which will set them up for life. Many teams and their fans will be hoping that a key signing or two will be enough to put them into the top echelon of the NHL.
Sometimes it works [...]
Glen Wesley Tribute
This is one of those times when I wish that I had some journalistic expertise so that I could write a proper article, because this person really deserves it.
Of course I’m referring to Glen Wesley.
If you wanted to paint a picture of a prototype athlete as well as a person, you couldn’t go wrong with [...]
Bottoming Out - Maple Leafs 5 Hurricanes 4
Reaching their lowest point so far this season, the Carolina Hurricanes lost to the Toronto Maple Leafs last night, 5-4. Not only did the Canes lose to another team riding a long losing streak, they finally relinquished their lead in the Southeast Division.
The Atlanta Thrashers easily beat the Detroit Red Wings 5-1, tying Carolina [...]
Battle of the Badges - Blueliners 7, Leatherheads 5
The Raleigh Police Department hockey team, (the Blueliners) defeated the Raleigh Durham Area Firefighters, (the Leatherheads) 7-5 last night in an exciting, back and forth hockey game for charity at the RBC. Last year during the first event between these groups, the Leatherheads won by the exact same score.
The charities were The 200 Club [...]
Everybody Hurts - Bruins at Hurricanes
The slumping Boston Bruins are in Raleigh to take on the battered and bruised Carolina Hurricanes tonight. While the Hurricanes are hurting, they won’t get any sympathy from the Bruins who are fighting the injury demons themselves.
First, let’s look to see who won’t be playing for Boston. Aaron Ward, Patrice Bergeron, Glen Murray, [...]
Black Friday
I just quickly searched around for any updated news related to the Hurricanes, and there isn’t much. Did you ever wish the Canes had a special lunch show, like “Leaf’s Lunch”, or something like that? I wish that I had the time to do produce it. For now, we’ll just [...]
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 [...]
Bye Bye Baby
Bye bye Bob Hartley!! I’d like to say I’ll miss him, but I won’t! I always hated that smug look on his face after he sent his goons out to rough up an opponent at the end of a game that was out of hand. In case you missed it, the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
