by Matt Karash | Nov 9, 2015 | GM/Coaches’ Seat
Michal Jordan is part 5 of a 7-part series ‘7 D in 7 days.’ If you were busy during the work week and are just catching up, here are links to the previous parts: 1-John-Michael Liles 2-Ryan Murphy 3-Brett Pesce 4-Noah Hanifin Most of my discussion of...
by Matt Karash | Nov 6, 2015 | GM/Coaches’ Seat
If you missed the site update for Canes and Coffee’s 3-month anniversary and the request for feedback, please help out and go HERE. If you missed and want to catch up on parts 1-3 of this ‘7 D in 7 days series, here are links for John-Michael Liles (part...
by Matt Karash | Nov 5, 2015 | GM/Coaches’ Seat
Sometime after James Wisniewski was felled by a season-ending knee injury, I was accused (rightfully I guess) of having a man crush on Brett Pesce. Before his NHL debut, I had already: Raved about his play in a top 4 slot in preseason game #5 against a mostly NHL Pens...
by Matt Karash | Nov 4, 2015 | GM/Coaches’ Seat
Ryan Murphy is player #2 in what I hope will be ‘7 D in 7 days. First up yesterday was John-Michael Liles whose write up can be found HERE. When I categorize the youth in the system on defense, most players fit pretty neatly into 1 of 2 categories. ‘The...
by Matt Karash | Nov 3, 2015 | GM/Coaches’ Seat
With a run of off days and so much happening on the Canes blue line, my hope is to profile 1 of the Hurricanes 7 NHL defenseman per day over the course of this week. First up is John-Michael Liles. When John-Michael Liles was acquired by the Carolina Hurricanes it was...
by Matt Karash | Oct 23, 2015 | GM/Coaches’ Seat
I am on record as confused and a bit annoyed at both process and results for Coach Bill Peters’ constant line shuffling. I have written up the details of that previously, so I will skip it today and just fast forward to evaluating what we expect to see tonight...