All Entries in the "Zach Boychuk" Category
Tidbits — Jan. 6
Some notes and stats concerning the Canes:
• Zach Boychuk helped lead Canada to their fifth straight World Junior U20 gold medal, his second consecutive with the team. While draft-eligible superstar John Tavares made the biggest splash throughout the tournament, Boychuk fared well with four goals and three assists in six games.
• Defensive prospect Brett Bellemore’s [...]
Boychuk Dodges A Bullet
I know I held my breath when Team USA d-man Teddy Ruth flattened Zach Boychuk during Thursday’s Group A tilt between Canada and the Americans at the World Juniors in Ottawa. Boychuk was slow to get up and gimped to the bench, and while I was rooting for the U.S. and glad to see the [...]
LaCouture Picks Russia; Boychuk Leads Canada
Dan LaCouture’s back-and-forth flirtation with the Kontinental Hockey League is over, with the veteran forward deciding to leave the Albany River Rats and head to Russia. There are comments here from Albany GM/coach Jeff Daniels courtesy the Schenectady Daily Gazette, and also Jim Rutherford’s take at LSB (soon to be Canes Now).
Pete Dougherty at the [...]
World Juniors Start Today
The World Junior Championships get underway today in Ottawa, Canada. You can keep an eye on some of Carolina’s prospects as Drayson Bowman from Team USA will be facing Team Germany starting at 3:30 while Zach Boychuk and Team Canada will be playing Michal Jordan and the Czech Republic tonight at 7:30. The [...]
Boychuk and Bowman Make Respective World Teams
Top Carolina prospects Zach Boychuk and Drayson Bowman earned spots on their respective country’s Junior World Tournament squads this year.
Boychuk made Team Canada for the second consecutive year and will be looking for another gold medal. The Lethbridge winger has 12 goals, 14 assists, 26 points and is a (plus) +13 in 21 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Boychuk Sent to Juniors, What’s Next?
The Carolina Hurricanes just sent a news release that rookie, Zach Boychuk will be returned to his juniors team. General Manager Jim Rutherford had the following to say:
This has been a good experience for Zach. Despite the fact that he was recovering from hand surgery, his play progressed very well. Another year of junior [...]
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 [...]
Boychuk Makes Debut Tonight
The Carolina Hurricanes first round draft pick of this year, Zach Boychuk, will make his NHL debut tonight in Los Angeles. Boychuk has been a bright surpise this camp, impressing the coaching staff enough to keep him around even though he did not play a single exhibition game and has been practicing injured.
From [...]
River Rats Preview Up At HF.com; Other Loose Ends
My latest at Hockey’s Future is posted — it’s a season preview of the Hurricanes’ AHL affiliate in Albany. It actually should’ve gone up yesterday, but it had to be tweaked a little because of the Matt Murley situation.
In a way, Murley’s departure will probably be good for someone of the Albany guys. Forwards like [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Camp Preview Looks At Prospects
More from me over at Hockey’s Future. The latest is a Hurricanes training camp preview that focuses on the team’s prospects and their chances at camp.
As most of us know, Brandon Sutter looks like the only greenhorn that will leave camp with a job in Carolina, but there will be a chance to see some [...]
NHL.com Previews The League
I guess even the league office is tired of waiting on Mats Sundin to make a decision, because they’ve moved on and posted a thorough season preview on NHL.com. On top of previews of each team — Carolina’s is pretty straight forward, though the writer predicts “significant playing time” for Frank Kaberle — there are [...]
Canes’ Top 20 Prospects
My latest offering over at Hockey’s Future, the team’s top 20 prospects, shows a team that’s slowly building up a nice pool of up-and-coming players. I had a hard time plugging a lot of the guys in an order that made sense. You could make solid arguments for Brandon Sutter, Drayson Bowman or Zach Boychuk [...]
Canes Get Kudos On Draft
Mark Seidel, the chief scout for North American Central Scouting, gave the Hurricanes an A- in his Hockey News blog. Los Angeles and the Islanders received an A+; Atlanta, St. Louis, the Rangers and Phoenix received A’s; and Florida, like Carolina, got an A-.
Seidel applauded the amount of skill Carolina drafted, but thinks they’ll need [...]
Carolina Hurricanes Prospect Conditioning Camp - Preview
The “Young Guns” of the Carolina Hurricanes organization are in town this week to take part in the annual conditioning camp for prospects. During the camp, which is officially running from July 9th to the 12th, the players will learn new physical training techniques, have media training, learn proper eating habits, and will be [...]
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 [...]
Thoughts about the Weekend
After having time to review a couple of draft reports it seems like the Hurricanes did all right for themselves on draft day, considering their position and the fact that they only had five picks. According to The Hockey News, first round pick Zach Boychuk could be ready for prime time this season. [...]
Canes Pick a Dalpe, a Whaler, and a Goalie
In a draft that set a record for the number of draft day trades made during the 1st round, there were no trades and no big surprises for the Carolina Hurricanes at the draft this year. After selecting the highest rated player at the time in the 1st, Zach Boychuk, they repeated the process [...]
Boychuk the Man for Carolina
The Carolina Hurricanes selected Zach Boychuk with the 14th pick in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft. Boychuk was noted as being one of the quickest players in all of the major junior leagues. He scored 33 goals and had 72 points in just 61 games for Lethbridge last year. [...]
