by Matt Karash | Feb 8, 2019 | The Drive Home
After a long ceremony commemorating the 25th anniversary of the New York Rangers 1994 Stanley Cup Championship, the Hurricanes and Rangers started a bit after 8pm. The first period was pretty even with back and forth play and not a ton of great scoring chances. The...
by Matt Karash | Feb 7, 2019 | The Drive Home
In a battle for ninth place in the Eastern Conference, the Hurricanes won a wild game that just seemed to take that latest layer of wildness and to it. The third period ultimately became a wild free for all that carried into overtime where the Hurricanes finally...
by Matt Karash | Feb 5, 2019 | The Drive Home
On Tuesday night, the Hurricanes kicked off a critical five-game road trip against the Pittsburgh Penguins. With the Penguins being the only opponent currently in playoff position on the trip, a win would be a great start. With a solid 4-0 win, the Hurricanes now...
by Matt Karash | Feb 3, 2019 | The Drive Home
If it was still 2018, Sunday’s game against the Calgary Flames would have been a resounding 5-2 win. But unfortunately, three of the goal scorers are now former Canes, and the result was instead a 4-3 loss with goals against by former Canes Elias Lindholm, Derek...
by Matt Karash | Feb 2, 2019 | The Drive Home
After an eight-day layoff, Friday’s game had a bit of uncertainty to it. That was reflected in my game preview that made mention of things like dialing up intensity, finding skating legs, shaking off rush, etc. The start of the game was a bit sloppy which was...
by Matt Karash | Jan 24, 2019 | The Drive Home
The news of the day heading into the game was the fact that Rod Brind’Amour had decided to give goalie Alex Nedeljkovic his first NHL start. I was a bit surprised that Brind’Amour did not decide to ride Mrazek into the eight-day layoff but also excited to...
