by Matt Karash | Aug 10, 2015 | Memory Lane
Josef Vasicek’s career with the Hurricanes started when he rose from off the depth chart to claim a roster spot to start the 1999-00 season. It started with a strong performance at the annual Traverse City prospect tournament to rise above other similar age Canes’...
by Matt Karash | Aug 10, 2015 | Memory Lane
Martin Gelinas was one of many quality people (not just hockey players) who were instrumental during the early phase of the team’s courtship of its new fan base. The approachability and likability of Martin Gelinas and others like him played a huge role in the...
by Matt Karash | Aug 10, 2015 | Memory Lane
Gary Roberts played for the Carolina Hurricanes for exactly three seasons, but he made a mark on the franchise in that short time. His stats include 207 games played, 57 goals, 87 assists and 343 penalty minutes. More significant than the stats, Gary Roberts brought...
by Matt Karash | Aug 10, 2015 | Memory Lane
When he was named captain of the Carolina Hurricanes before the 1998-99 season, Keith Primeau was the physical equivalent of Jordan Staal as a pure power forward type center. At 6-5 and 220 pounds and 26 years of age, he was the young leader and poster child for a...
by Matt Karash | Aug 10, 2015 | Memory Lane
In two stints with the Hurricanes from 1997-98 to 1999-00 and then 2001-02 to 2003-04, Sean Hill brought a physical, rugged and sometimes nasty brand of hockey that regularly got under opponents’ skin to the Canes blue line. He averaged more than a penalty minute per...
by Matt Karash | Aug 10, 2015 | Memory Lane
Some dozens of years down the line when the Carolina Hurricanes hockey history and tradition have been built to a much greater extent, Kevin Dineen will be the answer to one, if not two, of common trivia questions – “Who was the team’s first captain?” and also...
