by Canes&Coffee | Sep 11, 2015 | Memory Lane
Voting for the 2nd round of the ‘Cup Core’ and ‘Current Generation’ regionals will start at 11:30am ET on Friday, September 11, 2015 and end at 12pm ET on Wednesday, September 16, 2015. (There is a chance this will be pulled in to Tuesday, but it will be somewhat...
by Matt Karash | Sep 11, 2015 | Memory Lane
Jeff Skinner was drafted with the seventh overall pick in the 2010 NHL draft. Picked that highly, people had fairly high expectations for the player he might become, but no one could have guessed how quickly he would get there. He entered the Hurricanes 2010-11...
by Matt Karash | Sep 11, 2015 | Memory Lane
Erik Cole’s Carolina Hurricanes career saw him arrive, play, depart, re-arrive, play and depart again. But whenever the ‘Cole Train’ was in Raleigh, hockey times were mostly good. He is one of only three players (Rod Brind’Amour and Niclas Wallin are the other two)...
by Matt Karash | Sep 10, 2015 | Memory Lane
Justin Williams was the scorer of one of the greatest goals and calls in Carolina Hurricanes history. Chuck Kaiton’s famous call went, “He won the Stanley Cup. Justin Williams has won the Stanley Cup for the Carolina Hurricanes…” This was obviously the call for the...
by Matt Karash | Sep 8, 2015 | Memory Lane
Here are a couple other Josef Vasicek links in addition to others’ links that I retweeted on Twitter today: 1) My blog on Hockeybuzz on September 7, 2011 upon hearing about Vasicek’s death. 2) Josef Vasicek’s bio for the Canes and Coffee bracket event going on right...
by Matt Karash | Sep 4, 2015 | Memory Lane
It is hard to picture a Carolina Hurricanes game without Glen Wesley in it. Only Eric Staal has played more than Glen Wesley’s 729 games in a Hurricanes uniform. Wesley logged 70 or more games in each of the team’s first seven years (2002-03 included seven games in...
