All Entries in the "Justin Williams" Category
Flyers at Canes, Gameday Preview
The red-hot Philadelphia Flyers are in town to take on the up and down Carolina Hurricanes. The Flyers have won their last five games and have not lost in regulation in their last seven. (6-0-1). The Canes have lost their last two, but won three consecutive games prior to that.
Which Carolina [...]
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 [...]
JR In The News
Two quick items worth looking into:
1) LSB has posted an entry where GM Jim Rutherford expresses his displeasure with the team’s recent efforts.
2) TSN.com is reporting Rutherford turned down the role of president and GM for the Maple Leafs last August.
Discuss.
One more item: Justin Williams is back on the ice, according to CH.com. Don’t get [...]
Loose Pucks — Nov. 10
More Loose Pucks:
• The Hockey News recently published their annual “Bucks And Pucks” report, which focuses on the financial side of the game. This year’s analysis looks at team finances and the salary cap — mostly how the current economic downturn is affecting the league. We hear enough about the bad economy, but there were [...]
Rutherford to Change Training Methods in Carolina
Hurricanes General Manager, Jim Rutherford is mandating change regarding the way Carolina players train off the ice. In a recent interview with TSN’s Darren Dreger, Rutherford says that any off-ice testing that increases the heart rate and puts stress on the body will no longer be allowed by the organization.
“Their bodies are screaming out, [...]
Carolina Injuries - Bad Training, Bad Skates, or Bad Luck?
Last week, the Carolina Hurricanes treatment room looked like a waiting line at a MASH unit. Ten players were nursing some type of injury. Things are looking better at the moment, but the injury bug is nothing new for the Canes and it’s starting to make fans as well as team management ask [...]
No Easy Path for Rutherford - Mark Parrish on Speed Dial?
You have to feel for Justin Williams. To work so hard, only to have another set back like this one must be devastating. But not only is the winger’s injury tough on the skater himself, it obviously affects the whole organization.
For instance, Peter Laviolette’s job status is probably riding on the team’s success [...]
Justin Williams Injured, Out up to Six Months
No, this isn’t a bad joke.
The Carolina Hurricanes just issued a press release announcing that forward Justin Williams injured himself at a workout this morning. He will need surgery and will be out for a period of four to six months.
RALEIGH, NC—Jim Rutherford, President and General Manager of the National Hockey League’s Carolina Hurricanes, [...]
Goalie Rankings Peg Ward Near The Bottom
Maybe it’s for the best, because the last time Cam Ward had low expectations tagged to him, he turned around the Hurricanes’ first-round playoff series and eventually led Carolina to the Stanley Cup, along the way earning himself a Conn Smythe Trophy.
See, back then at the beginning of the 2005-06 season, Ward was a rookie [...]
“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 [...]
Take It To The Limit - Canes and the Salary Cap
The Carolina Hurricanes roster is starting to take shape, and it’s not a pleasant sight for the Bank of Karmanos. With the recent signings of Tim Gleason and Tuomo Ruutu, the total number of possible, (or probable) roster players under contract is up to 18 at the present time.
Let’s take a closer look.
The following [...]
Back For More - The Forwards
This is the final segment of our end of year “Back For More” feature. We have already analyzed the defense and goaltending, next we will take a look at the forward position.
The Carolina Hurricanes are in the enviable position of having 10 or 11 forwards (either signed or RFA status), with top nine skill. [...]
A Momentary Lapse of Reason - Panthers 4 Hurricanes 3
Hell officially froze over Friday night as the Hurricanes somehow blew their one time huge division lead and the Florida Panthers beat them 4-3. There are no excuses. The team had 9 powerplay opportunities to none for Florida, including two 5 on 3’s. They outshot the kittykats 46-17 and still couldn’t beat [...]
Bad to the Bone - Capitals 4 Hurricanes 1
NHL “official” Brad Watson falls within at least one of these three criteria.
He simply hates Carolina because of some unknown reason.
He’s just an incredibly bad referee.
He makes calls based upon taking orders from the league office, rather than how he actually sees a game.
This is a referee who not only made numerous questionable calls against [...]
Pressure - Hurricanes at Capitals Pre-Game
The Carolina Hurricanes and Washington Capitals meet tonight at the Verizon Center for the most important game of the season for both clubs. The Canes lead the Southeast Division by a meager 2 points, but could clinch the division title with a win in regulation. The Caps desperately need a win to keep [...]
Carolina News Bytes
Scanning through some sites around the internet, I came up with a few interesting tidbits. Check this out from Reuters News….
RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - The Carolina Hurricanes maintained one of the NHL’s top dynasties by signing 2007 first-round draft pick Brandon Sutter to a three-year contract, the team said on Wednesday.
One of the [...]
Real Good Man
The Carolina Hurricanes are comprised of several really good men, but one of them is being recognized for going above and beyond. Goalie, Cam Ward has been nominated by his teammates for the King Clancy Memorial Trophy, an NHL award given annually to the player who “best exemplifies leadership qualities on and [...]
Sunday Mail
It’s Easter Sunday evening and things have finally quieted down here on the home front. Time to browse around the hockey news world and comment on anything of interest.
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The latest on first round draft pick Brandon Sutter……
Tom Gulitti of the North Jersey Record recently interviewed New Jersey coach Brent Sutter about Jersey’s collapse against [...]
Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow - Hurricanes at Sabres Pre-Game
The Carolina Hurricanes are up in the Great White North visiting the friendly shores of Lake Erie for a match tonight with the Buffalo Sabres. The Hurricanes have won 5 games in a row and have a record of 8-1-1 in their last 10 games. The Sabres on the other-hand are having a [...]
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 [...]
Justin Williams out, Brandon Nolan in
Carolina Hurricanes fans worst fears came to fruition late yesterday afternoon when it was announced that Justin Williams would need major reconstructive surgery on his left knee. He will be out for a period of 4 to 6 months. While this news is devastating to the team as well as to fans, one [...]
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 [...]
You Can’t Always Get What You Want - Panthers 5, Canes 4
The Florida Panthers beat the Carolina Hurricanes on Thursday night, 5-4 narrowing Carolina’s division lead to a mere 3 points. After the Panthers took a 1-0 lead off of a fluky goal where a shot was redirected in the net by Radek Dvorak’s skate, the Canes came roaring back for 3 straight goals. [...]
Home Sweet Home
The Carolina Hurricanes continue to play at the Bell Centre in Montreal like it’s their home ice. Cam Ward has yet to lose there. Erik Cole usually plays his best hockey there. Saturday night was no exception as the Hurricanes beat the Montreal Canadiens 5-1, to make it nine victories in [...]
Mystery Train
Some things in life are a mystery, and hockey is no different. There are occurrences that happen in games occasionally that just don’t seem to make any sense. Like how one team can always dominate another team, even though if you compare them player by player and roster to roster, it doesn’t seem [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Sunday Papers
The Carolina Hurricanes dropped one to the Florida Panthers last night, 4-2. I’m not going to blame the loss on the refs and I’m not going to say that the Canes should have won it. Quite frankly, at the end of the day I thought that the Panthers deserved to win the game. [...]
Breakdown
Tonight the Carolina Hurricanes begin a long streak of games against their Southeast Division brethren and are in Florida to begin a home and home series with the Panthers. These head to head divisional matchups are very important in the grand scheme of things and can really help the teams behind in the [...]
8 Miles High
The Carolina Hurricanes lit the lamp 8 times last night and took advantage of a rusty New York Islanders team which hadn’t played a game in a week. The Canes scored thrice in each of the first two periods, and then added 2 more in the meaningless third. Captain Rod Brind’Amour earned [...]
A Song for Sleeping
Last night at the RBC, the Montreal Canadiens handed the Carolina Hurricanes their worse loss so far this season, 7-4. Most of the Canes were sleepwalking throughout the 1st period, not really waking up until they were down 5-1. (maybe they skipped their afternoon naps because their dads were in town?) The [...]
Toast and Bananas
The Buffalo “Bananas” are in town and will be donning their new jerseys (see above) tonight when they take on the Carolina Hurricanes in a rematch of the 2005-06 Eastern Conference Finals. So far this season, the Slugs have a record of 3-4 and are currently in last place in the Northeast Division. [...]
Tough Enough
The Canes lost another tough one tonight as they outplayed the Philadelphia Flyers for large chunks of the game, only to come away with another OT loss, 3-2. The team played without forwards Andrew Ladd, Scott Walker, and Erik Cole. You read that right! Of course, Ladd never made the trip [...]
House of Horrors
What is it about Mellon Arena and the Carolina Hurricanes? In each of the past 3 years, someone has gotten badly injured and had to be assisted off the ice during a game there. Two years ago, Erik Cole suffered a broken neck. Last year Trevor Letowski was [...]
Lovin’ Every Minute of It
The Carolina Hurricanes are making a statement. I think that part of the statement they are making is that they are just getting started. Tonight, they completed a tough 3 game Canadian road trip and defeated the Montreal Canadiens on their home opener, 3-1. This win, just after they handed [...]
