All Entries in the "Tim Conboy" Category
The Hit: What They’re Saying Around The League; Conboy In Trouble?
I thought I’d compile some quotes from around the world of hockey to give everyone an idea of what’s being said about Doug Weight’s hit on Brandon Sutter:
• NHL executive vic e president Bill Daly: ”The league takes very seriously its role in helping to protect players from dangerous or unnecessary blows to the head.
“To this [...]
Checking In On The Prospects
Here’s some stats information on the Canes prospects in North America and overseas, for those who don’t want to dig it all up (* indicates team-high total; for stats that have multiple people tied, I did not include a *):
FORWARDS
• Mike Angelidis, Albany (AHL) — 4G: 1-0-1, -2
• Nicolas Blanchard, Albany (AHL) — 4G: 1-1-2, [...]
More on Hagemo — Cut By Everblades
Carolina prospect Nate Hagemo fell short of making the Florida Everblades, Carolina’s affiliate in the ECHL. From The Naples News:
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ROSTER CUTS: The Blades had to submit their opening day roster to the ECHL by 5 p.m. on Wednesday. But Cameron wasn’t too worried about potential roster cuts.
So far, he has cut just one player: Defenseman [...]
Cuts Like a Knife - Roster Set, For Now
My roster prediction from yesterday was pretty much spot on except that Tim Conboy joins Joe Jensen and Trevor Gillies on the bus back to Albany. Twenty five players remain on the roster today, but Justin Williams and Scott Walker will be placed on IR, making the final total twenty three.
Both Paul Branecky [...]
My Picks for the Roster
Since the Carolina Hurricanes just announced that Scott Walker had surgery on his left hand this morning and will miss up to six weeks of action, it looks like another job just opened up for somebody, albeit a temporary one.
Twenty three players can be kept for the opening night roster. Here are my picks-
Eric [...]
Walker Undergoes Surgery
The Hurricanes took another injury hit today when Scott Walker was lost for six weeks after having surgery this morning on his left hand, according to a release by the team.
Walker presumably hurt his hand during a fight with Philadelphia’s Nate Guenin, who had hit Matt Cullen in the teams’ preseason game Sept. 28. Walker was [...]
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 [...]
And Then There Were 42
The Carolina Hurricanes made a few more cuts today, sending 11 River Rats up to Albany. The affected players are, Mike Angelidis, Nicolas Blanchard, Stefan Chaput, Nick Dodge, Patrick Dwyer, Bobby Hughes, Harrison Reed, Ryan Weston; Ryan McGinnis, Benn Olson; and goaltender David Leggio.
That still leaves 42 players in Raleigh trying to make [...]
Red - White Scrimmage “Live Blog”
We will be here at about 2:50 on Sunday afternoon.
Click Here for the “LIVE BLOG”
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Here are the rosters for each respective team. It looks to me like the red team has a bit of an advantage, but we will see.
RED TEAM
WHITE TEAM
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60 Justin Peters
70 Mike Murphy
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40 David Leggio
50 Daniel Manzato
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Tough Enough - Canes Drop Mits 44 Times Last Season
Are the Carolina Hurricanes a tough enough hockey team? They do have some smallish players who have a tendency to get pushed around a bit. Last season before the call-ups of Wade Brookbank and Tim Conboy, the team seemed to be getting physically dominated at times. The December game in New [...]
“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 [...]
The Big Money - Reviewing Day One of “Crazy Daze”
Some NHL players must have felt like they just won the lottery yesterday. Let’s take a quick look around and review some of the deals finalized on day one. Agents are still partying as we speak.
Green signs in Washington for 21M over 4 years. (good deal for both sides)
Stuart signs in Detroit [...]
This Ain’t The Summer of Love - Buyouts, Qualifying Offers, and more
In stark contrast to Carolina’s Summer of 2006 when all contract negotiations seemed to go smoothly, players were re-signed without any hitches, coach’s contracts were extended, and love was in the air, so far the Summer of 2008 has had a couple of buyouts, minimum qualifying offers, a disputed buyout, and the inability to make [...]
Patience - Plenty of Work Ahead for Canes
So far this off season, new contract signings have been few and far between for the Carolina Hurricanes. Other than Sergei Samsonov, Trevor Gillies, Michael Leighton, and Patrick Eaves, the rest of the unsigned Canes are still waiting for contracts.
LSB recently reported that negotiations between Jim Rutherford and restricted free agents Tim Gleason [...]
Lonely People - Where Have All The Rats Fans Gone?
During my daily search and perusal of Hurricanes related stories, I came across this interesting article about the Albany River Rats and their attendance issues. According to the author, the Rats have only averaged a total of 1,873 fans for each home game so far this playoff season.
Are you kidding me?
The next time I [...]
Shakedown - Brodeur and Avery Epitome of Class - NOT
The New York Rangers eliminated the New Jersey Devils on Friday night and something different happened during the traditional hand-shake ceremony. Martin Brodeur refused to shake Sean Avery’s hand and passed him by, while shaking everyone else’s hand. Pretty funny stuff.
Avery wasn’t amused though and called out Brodeur in the press afterwards. [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
Give a Little Bit - Hurricanes in the News
The Carolina Hurricanes might have had a couple of days off recently between games, but they have been very busy doing a variety of things on and off the ice during that time frame. I’m going to try to give a little bit of information on several news items and interviews, just in case [...]
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 [...]
Back in the High Life Again - Hurricanes 5 Lightning 1
The Carolina Hurricanes took advantage of a tired and listless Tampa Bay Lightning squad Saturday night and beat them soundly by a score of 5 to 1. Although the Canes gave up the first goal of the game in somewhat typical fashion for them, they came on strong afterwards and didn’t let up [...]
Yours is No Disgrace - Rangers 4 Hurricanes 2
Sooner or later, the home ice winning streak had to come to an end, and it came to a resounding thud last night as the Carolina Hurricanes lost to the NY Rangers by a score of 4-2. The home team came out of the dressing room flat in the first period and several [...]
Higher - Hurricanes 6 Capitals 3
The Carolina Hurricanes continued to stake their claim to first place in the Southeast Division with a convincing 6-3 win over the Washington Capitals on Saturday night. While the Capitals started the game out with the most jump and took a 2-1 lead during the 1st period, the Hurricanes rallied for three goals in [...]
Dancing Queen - Thrashers at Hurricanes Pre-Game
The Atlanta Thrashers are in town to take on the Carolina Hurricanes tonight in yet another pressure packed game with playoff implications. Believe it or not, the Thrashers have won 5 straight at the RBC. Both teams are coming off losses from their most recent contests, the Canes after a shoot-out thriller [...]
