All Entries in the "Tim Gleason" Category
Canes, Sabres Take Different Paths
Two cities. Two franchises. Two strategies. Two similar destinations.
Back in the 2005-06, the Carolina Hurricanes and Buffalo Sabres were two of the best teams in the NHL, compiling 112 and 110 points, respectively, en route to the Eastern Conference finals.
Both teams were, first and foremost, built for speed.
The Sabres were led by dipsy-doodling Russian Maxim [...]
Canes Recover to Take Lightning, 3-2
After a slow start, Carolina woke up mid-way through the first period and took over the hockey game last night in Tampa. The Lightning came out with major jump, controlled play in the Hurricanes zone, and took the lead just five minutes into the game on a rebound chance by Ryan Craig.
About a [...]
BOGO Offer For N.J. Game Jan. 6
The Hurricanes will offer Buy One, Get One Free vouchers for fans donating winter clothing to the team’s Dec. 29 to Jan. 6 clothing drive. A donation will also get your name in a drawing for a chance to meet players following the game and a shot at some nice prizes. Here’s more info.
A couple [...]
Beantown Brawl: Canes Face Bruins
The Hurricanes start a four-game road trip Saturday afternoon in Boston, meeting the Eastern Conference’s top team for the first time this season.
Carolina is coming off a 2-1 overtime victory vs. division rival Florida Thursday, giving them two consecutive wins and points in six straight (3-0-3). The recent run has put the Canes back into [...]
Corvo Works Magic - Canes 2 Panthers 1, OT
The Carolina Hurricanes came out in the first period skating hard and never looked back as they defeated the Florida Panthers, 2-1 in overtime last night at the RBC. Not only did the Canes outshoot the Panthers in each and every period, but they held the advantage in time of possession and scoring chances [...]
Canes at Rangers Preview - Tim Gleason Activated
Don’t look now, but the Florida Panthers are now ahead of the Hurricanes in the standings. The Panthers are 7-1-2 in their last ten games, (31 points) and are currently sitting at ninth in the conference and second in the division. The Hurricanes are 3-5-2 in their last ten, (30 points) [...]
Like This Year’s Team? Get Used To It
In these times of cost certainty, salary caps and revenue sharing, fans of professional sports have never been so knowledgeable about their favorite teams’ finances. While the NFL and NBA’s budgets are riddled with phantom dollars (NFL) and little “sense” (the NBA’s sought-after expiring contracts), NHL fans can easily wrap their minds around the basics [...]
Improved Drafting Makes Team Deeper
The Hurricanes started their season eight deep on defense, with GM Jim Rutherford looking to part with one of his NHL blueliners to make his budget. Fast-forward two months, and not only has Carolina seen all eight play at least half of the team’s 28 games, but they’ve recalled three AHL d-men to fill in [...]
Opportunity Knocks … For Many
It’s the morning after, so to speak, and the shock has worn off … somewhat. To say the Carolina Hurricanes franchise is beginning a new era and starting over would be naive at best, downright silly at worst. It’s still “Our Team” and clearly Paul Maurice was still part of “Our Tradition.”
But at the same [...]
Quarter Pole Grades: Defensemen And Goalies
Here are some grades, analysis and projections for the everyday players on the Carolina roster after 25 games. Grades will be based mostly on expectations, rather than overall skill level and stats. Projections are based on the player’s current statistics and assume they remain healthy. The forward grades can be found here. Let’s look at [...]
Dwyer Recalled, Canes at Panthers Preview
The Carolina Hurricanes are in Sunrise, Florida tonight to take on the last place Florida Panthers, but don’t expect a cakewalk for the Canes. They could be skating into a hornet’s nest.
Florida’s coach Peter DeBoer and general manager Jacques Martin have both recently called out the team and put them on notice. Big [...]
Turn The Page - Preds 5, Canes 2
The Nashville Predators dismantled the Carolina Hurricanes at the RBC Center on Sunday afternoon by a score of 5-2. After winning three games in a row the Canes were due for a let down, and that is exactly what happened.
The Hurricanes had every opportunity to put this game out of reach in the first [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Sens Come To The RBC; Michael Ryan Recalled
It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.
Last night, Ottawa notched a convincing win over the Flyers in Canada’s capital. In the U.S. capital of Washington, D.C., the Canes suffered their most crushing loss of the young season.
The Sens have won four of five and head into Raleigh with confidence, creeping [...]
Loose Pucks — Nov. 5
I figured I needed a name for these random things I find that really don’t deserve their own posts — so Loose Pucks is born!
• Three Hurricanes are will be on the ballot for this year’s All-Star Game in Montreal. Rod Brind’Amour, Eric Staal and Ray Whitney all made the cut for the voting, which [...]
Leafs at Canes, Preamble
The Toronto Maple Leafs will meet the Carolina Hurricanes today at 5PM at the RBC. The game is the second of a set of back-to-backs for each team, and the third in four days for the Canes. The Canes are sporting a record of 5-3-2 while the Leafs are 5-3-3.
Last night the Maple [...]
Defense Shines as Canes Blank Blues, 1-0
The Carolina Hurricanes shut out the St. Louis Blues last night 1-0, as the team played their best defensive game of the year. Cam Ward was also very solid in goal for the Canes and earned his first shut-out of the season.
After allowing a franchise record 60 shots on goal Saturday night [...]
No More Love for Weight - Canes 4, Islanders 3
This blogger has been a fan of Doug Weight for a long time. Tonight, the fandom is over.
In the third period while rookie Brandon Sutter was extending himself and trying to make a play on the puck when approaching the Islanders zone, Weight lowered his shoulder and took out the vulnerable, 19-year-old. [...]
Canes Find a New Way to Win
The Carolina Hurricanes defeated the Anaheim Ducks by a score of 3-1 last night in Anaheim. The Canes scored first in the contest, the only time they have done that all season.
Eric Staal zipped a pass across the crease to a wide open Ryan Bayda, who made no mistake. The team [...]
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 [...]
Nashville Notes and Other News
Tonight the Hurricanes are on the road to play another exhibition game, this time in Nashville. There will be a few vets in the lineup trying to fine tune their timing, and there will be a few players in the contest still trying to make the team. CH.com is reporting that the lineup [...]
Canes at Caps - Pre-game Hype
Tonight the Hurricanes find themselves up the road on I-95 to complete a back to back series with the Washington Capitals. The Canes will be looking to improve upon their lackluster showing last night which resulted in a 4-1 beatdown by the Caps.
According to CH.com, Carolina’s lineup will be as follows-
Sutter-Eaves-Bayda
Helminen-Bowman-LaCouture
Jensen-Chaput-Dwyer
Blanchard-Angelidis-Samson
Melichar-Kaberle
Seidenberg-Flood
Conboy-Rodney
Michael Leighton and [...]
Back to Work - Caps 4, Canes 1
Last night, fans were grumbling as they left the RBC.
Even if several of the players on the ice were different, parts of last night’s game looked eerily similar to the worst of last season. Collapses on defense, sloppy passing, and in general, uninspired play was what stood out to many.
The good news is that [...]
Every Picture Tells a Story - Canes Out and About
Congratulations to Patrick Eaves and his fiancee, Katie. Apparently, Patrick proposed at (at a lake like) nearby Lake Norman, where this recent photo shoot took place.
Tim Gleason took some time on Tuesday to do a charity gig at the Carolina Ale House. The defenseman was supposed to meet and greet customers, but ended [...]
Canes Unveil Alternate Jersey
With AC/DC’s “Back in Black” blaring, the Hurricanes revealed their third jersey this afternoon in a press conference that was open to the public. The jersey’s new look was shrouded in secrecy, but in the end the team decided on a black jersey featuring the secondary flag logo as the crest. The numbering is red with [...]
The Flag Flies Sept. 10
The Hurricanes long-awaited third jersey will be unveiled to the public Sept. 10 at a 12:30 p.m. news conference that will be open to the media and public. According to the news release, the Canes will wear the alternates — rumored to be black jerseys with the team’s secondary flag logo as the crest — [...]
The Word on Bret Hedican - Waiting
I’ve received a couple of recent emails asking me if I have heard anything about Bret Hedican. Has he signed anywhere yet? Has he retired? Is he playing in Europe?
To the best of my knowledge, the answer is no, no, and no.
I have not seen a single thing about him signing with [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
A Deeper Look - The Gleason and Hordichuk News
The Tim Gleason signing seems like a good one for both parties. Obviously, the blue-liner deserved a raise (he made $1,175,000 last year.) The new cap hit will be 2.75M for the next 4 years, which certainly won’t break the Hurricanes budget.
I think that Nashville’s signing of Ryan Suter a couple of [...]
Gleason Re-ups for 4 - Darcy Hordichuk Next
The Carolina Hurricanes just announced that they signed defenseman Tim Gleason to a 4 year deal today. The contract will pay Gleason a total of 11 million over a 4 year period. (the annual payout is 2M in 2009, 2.5M in 2010, 3M in 2011, and 3.5M in 2012. )
It was also announced [...]
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 [...]
Heard it on the X - Quick Hit News
To keep current on Hurricanes related news…..
Drayson Bowman and the Spokane Chiefs won the Memorial Cup on Sunday. They beat Kitchener 4-1 and Bowman scored the game-winner. The young Canes prospect led the tournament with 6 goals scored.
The MVP of the tournament though was goalie Dustin Tokarski, who had 53 saves in the [...]
Get Back - Team USA Gets Knocked Out of Tournament
Team Finland beat Team USA in the quarterfinals of the World Championships last night, 3-2, sending the Americans back home a bit sooner than they had hoped. Tuomo Ruutu scored the first goal of the contest and has 4 so far in the tournament.
USA was down by two goals in the 3rd period, but [...]
Fast and Loose - A Quick Look Around
Taking a quick gander around the hockey newsworld…..
San Jose coach, Ron Wilson was fired yesterday. Wilson had one of the best regular season records in the NHL for the past 3 years and made it to the 2nd round of the playoffs each of those years.
Eventually though, that just wasn’t good enough.
There are a [...]
Bad Moon Rising - Finland Beats USA With Bad Goal
Many hockey fans have said that NHL officiating is the worst of any league or any sport. Unfortunately for Team USA, those fans were proven wrong earlier Sunday night. The Americans were winning a tough game with Finland by the score of 2-0 when the Finns apparently scored a huge goal [...]
Wild World - IIHF Hockey Championships Start Today
Team Canada and Team USA begin their quest for gold as the IIHF Hockey World Championships start this afternoon. Canada’s first contest will be against Slovenia starting at 3:15 PM. Team USA will play against Team Latvia beginning at 7. For a complete schedule, check out this link.
Carolina netminder, Cam Ward will [...]
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, [...]
