Chronological Blog List
2 of 2: Looking forward to the Florida Panthers series
Part 1 of 2 today looked backward at the Canes series win over the New Jersey Devils. You can find that article HERE. Part 2 looks forward to the series against the Florida Panthers. Florida Panthers Entering the last week of the regular season, my strong...
1 of 2: Looking backward at the New Jersey Devils series
This is article is part 1 of 2. Part 2 which you can find HERE looks forward to the upcoming Eastern Conference Finals series against the Florida Panthers. Heading into the series against the New Jersey Devils, I was concerned about the Canes ability to score enough...
2 of 2: Looking forward to the New Jersey Devils series
On Monday, I posted an article that looked back at the Carolina Hurricanes series win over the New York Islanders. That article which you can find HERE leads into this article which looks forward to the Hurricanes round 2 match up against the New Jersey Devils. In...
1 of 2: Looking backward at the Islanders series
This article will be 1 of 2 first looking backward at what can be gleaned from the Islanders series and later 2 of 2 looking forward to the second round match up with the New Jersey Devils. Entering late March, the Islanders were my preferred choice for a first-round...
3 levels on the Canes 3 games into the 2023 NHL playoffs
Hello old friends. I have had good intentions of dusting off the Canes keyboard for about a month now, but a bit belated am finally getting around to jotting some Canes thoughts for the first time in awhile. For those curious, nothing horrible happened; life just got...
Gm1 Vs. Clu: Canes kick off 2022-23 NHL season with 4-1 win over Columbus
With only the home opener sitting in front of a five-game North Carolina State Fair road trip, the Canes gave the home crowd a small taste of hockey goodness with a 4-1 win. The first period was a bit sloppy with some disjointed play trying to advance the puck and at...
Quick thoughts on the state of the Canes off-season work
Quick heads up that the site will be taken down sometime Monday or Tuesday and might be down for a day or two for maintenance and updates. We should be back within a couple days at most. So you can thank me now for news now certain to break early next week on a...
Finishing the off-season work — Martin Necas, Ethan Bear and maybe Nino Niederreiter, Jake Gardiner and more
The Carolina Hurricanes made a couple big splashes on the opening day of free agency. In doing so, they mostly finished at least a tentative roster and also mostly used up the salary cap available for the 2022-23 season. But there are still a couple final pieces...
Canes additions Ondrej Kase, Lane Pederson and Dylan Coghlan
Last we covered the primary additions of Brent Burns and Max Pacioretty. If you missed them, the article on Brent Burns is HERE. And the article on Max Pacioretty is HERE. Today's Daily Cup of Joe covers the other players acquired in those deals and takes a look at...
Canes acquire Max Pacioretty and Dylan Coghlan for…wait for it…Future Considerations!?!?
Yesterday, I offered my thoughts on the acquisition of Brent Burns. If you missed that you can find that article HERE. I will separately cover Dylan Coghlan, Lane Pederson and Ondrej Case (hopefully tomorrow). Today's Daily Cup of Joe looks first bigger picture at the...
Canes acquire defenseman Brent Burns (and Lane Pederson) for Steven Lorentz, Eetu Makiniemi and a 3rd round draft pick
On Wednesday, the Carolina Hurricanes acquired defenseman Brent Burns along with Lane Pederson for Steven Lorentz, prospect Eetu Makiniemi and a third round draft pick. The draft pick will be the lower of the Hurricanes' pick and the one that they acquired from the...
Quick thoughts on most of free agents/trade targets being bandied around — Part 2: Forwards
Because of the volume of players and length of this, I split it into two parts. For a short list of overall priorities and notes on defensemen, see HERE. Forwards Vincent Trocheck Of all the Canes free agents forwards, he is the one I would consider leaning...
Quick thoughts on most of free agents/trade targets being bandied around — Part 1: Defensemen
With free agency opening in time for lunch break on Wednesday, today's Daily Cup of Joe offers quick thoughts on most of the names being bandied about right now. Part 2 which covers many of the forward options (ran out of time before getting to a few) is HERE. ...
Building the 2022-23 Carolina Hurricanes blue line
The big news from a Hurricanes standpoint coming out of the 2022 NHL Draft was a Friday trade that sent Tony DeAngelo's rights (he was a restricted free agent) to the Philadelphia Flyers in return for a fourth round pick in 2022, a third round pick in 2023 and a...
Considering options in stream of consciousness format…Tarasenko, Malkin, Giroux…oh my!
With the Canes not having a first-round draft pick (was given to Montreal along with third round pick to obtain Kotkaniemi) and no trades going down, the first day of the 2022 NHL Draft was mostly a non-event for the Carolina Hurricanes. But with only DeBrincat of the...