These are the dog days of the NHL regular season, and the Carolina Hurricanes have shown the ebbs and flows that come with it recently. An 11-game winning streak was immediately followed by a four-game slide, and since then, the team has more or less played a game or two up, a game or two
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The St. Louis Blues have a difficult road ahead in the month of December. They play 15 games against 11 teams that are currently in a playoff spot. With the Blues having a record of 11-11-0, they’ll need to play up to their competition this month. This month’s schedule is harder than the difficult November
Whether it be whom the Carolina Hurricanes should trade for between now and the trade deadline, the power-play issues, or just the general issues with the team’s inability to finish, Brandon Stanley and I have put together our first mailbag to give you our thoughts on these. Thank you to everybody who took the time
While getting off to a decent 9-5-1 start, there have been a handful of concerning trends popping up for the Carolina Hurricanes. The team has struggled with most of the high-end teams they’ve faced so far, and both special teams units have performed poorly. On top of that, injuries are starting to mount, with starting
The 2022-23 NHL season is a little over a week old, and the early excitement has been palpable league-wide. From games in Prague, explosive young talent making their mark, and the Toronto Maple Leafs inability to beat, of all teams, the Arizona Coyotes at Scotiabank Arena, storylines abound and social media fun is warming up
Despite trading defenseman Tony DeAngelo and seeing forwards Vincent Trocheck and Nino Niederreiter sign elsewhere this offseason, the Carolina Hurricanes should be contenders again in 2022-23 thanks to some key moves by general manager Don Waddell and company. They acquired veteran defenseman Brent Burns from the San Jose Sharks, who could prove to be an
It’s gone from a promising week in the Carolina Hurricanes’ corner of the hockey universe to a pretty tumultuous one. From bringing back a talented young restricted free agent (RFA) to giving themselves another option to fill out the back end of their blue line, the roster for the upcoming season is beginning to become
In today’s NHL rumors rundown, the Edmonton Oilers are still being linked to a couple of veteran free agents. Will either wind up with the organization? The Calgary Flames are working with MacKenzie Weegar on an extension and it is believed things could be close. The Carolina Hurricanes are also close on an extension with
Welcome to our daily rumours article brought to you by Betway Sports If the Oilers trade Warren Foegele Jonathan Willis: If the Edmonton Oilers decided to trade forward Warren Foegele, options they go in are: “a) grind McLeod, add two $750K guys, run a 23-man rosterb) grind McLeod, add one ~$1.5MM guy, run a 22-man
Martin Necas is coming off arguably the worst season of his young career. He finished his third full campaign in Raleigh with 40 points in 72 games and didn’t score a goal in 14 postseason games. Despite an underwhelming overall performance from the 23-year-old forward, I believe it is in the Hurricanes’ best interest to
The offseason is officially upon us, as the Colorado Avalanche took down the reigning two-time champion Tampa Bay Lightning in six games in the Stanley Cup Final. We were treated to a heck of a postseason in 2022, but, unfortunately, the end means the long, three-month stretch of no hockey has arrived. Still, we do
After landing the best European free agent out there in Andrei Kuzmenko, what other fun things does Vancouver Canucks general manager (GM) Patrik Allvin have up his sleeve? A mega-trade involving J.T. Miller or Brock Boeser perhaps? Or maybe a smaller deal that gets Tyler Myers, Tucker Poolman, Tanner Pearson or Jason Dickinson off the
Could Trotz end up in Nashville? NHL Watcher: Elliotte Friedman on The Jeff Marek Show: “There was a lot of talk about Trotz buying a house in Nashville yesterday… One of the things I did think is if he went into management right now, it might be with the Predators, they would be willing to
Hurricanes hope to bring back Trocheck and Niederreiter Kurt Dusterberg of NHL.com: Carolina Hurricanes GM Don Waddell is hopeful that they can re-sign pending unrestricted free agent forwards Vincent Trocheck and Nino Niederreiter. “We certainly hope they are both back, but it takes two sides. But I will have more dialogue with their agents in
After yet another strong regular season, the Carolina Hurricanes playoffs ended in disappointing fashion, this year in a second-round loss to the New York Rangers. There were several factors that played into this year’s exit, but at the end of the day they simply just weren’t good enough to advance to the Eastern Conference Final.
Trotz heading to Vegas? SinBin.vegas: Emily Kaplan a couple of days ago on ESPN: “A few people in the league have suggested to me that there could be a deal in place already with Barry Trotz and VGK. Just knowing the way Vegas does business but we’ll have to wait to see where Barry Trotz
Returning home in a tied 2-2 series, the Carolina Hurricanes approached Game 5 against the Nashville Predators with one major theme in mind – resilience. And resilient they were. After an incomprehensible goaltender interference call robbed Jordan Staal of a game-tying goal in the second period, it was Staal himself who cemented the comeback and
I like to wonder what hockey purists from 50, or 100, or even as recent as 30 years ago would think if they saw some of the things happening around the NHL today. The Toronto Maple Leafs haven’t won a Stanley Cup in more than half a century. Connor McDavid is unlike any player we’ve