Chronological Blog List

With the oddly-timed draft and off-season only a few weeks ago, the NHL rumor mill is starting to churn out a good new of things to consider (or just as often discard quickly). Unlike in years past, the Hurricanes seem to get more than their fair share of turns these...

Yesterday's Daily Cup of Joe slotted the current Hurricanes forwards. Today's Daily Cup of Joe does the same exercise with the defensemen.   Bona fide top 4 defensemen capable of top pairing -- Dougie Hamilton, Brett Pesce, Jaccob Slavin The starting point for...

Today's Daily Cup of Joe takes a shot at slotting the current Carolina Hurricanes forwards based on players' level of play during the 2019-20 season in a Hurricanes uniform. A couple key disclaimers -- First, for a few of these players, the sample size is very small....

The 2018-19 NHL season was a breakthrough campaign for the Carolina Hurricanes. After a decade of playoff misses, the team found an extended hot streak in the second half of the regular season and climbed up into the playoffs and made a run all the way to the Eastern...

The past year has been a significant one for either using or punting on prospects from the draft classes a couple years back.   2014 Carolina Hurricanes draft class With Haydn Fleury establishing himself at the NHL level in 2019-20 and Alex Nedeljkovic seemingly...

Today's Daily Cup of Joe has three unrelated sets of random notes.   1) The 2022 Olympics Assuming our world gets back to something closer than normal, we are less than 18 months away from the 2022 Olympics. Things can and will change between now and then, the...

In the span of a couple days, the Canes have been linked first to Frederik Andersen and then to Patrik Laine. This time of year, it can be hard to tell what is real and what is more so everyone spit balling to pass time. I wrote in detail about the Hurricanes internal...

In yesterday's Daily Cup of Joe, I stepped through the near-term contract situations for the Carolina Hurricanes.  That article focused primarily on the Hurricanes' free agents for the current off-season, but it did also touch on the situations for Andrei Svechnikov...

Monday's Daily Cup of Joe did a deep dive on the Hurricanes' goalie situation both short-term and longer-term. In that article I touched on the Hurricanes salary cap and contract considerations that make for different situations for 2020-21 and then 2021-22 and...

Put me firmly in the camp that supports the NHL taking a pause with other professional sports leagues. While I completely understand that these stoppages may not directly effect change, they make an important statement and put attention on the need for our country to...

I kicked off this week with an article entitled, "Two Canes assertions." That article which you can find HERE asserted that Brett Pesce was the key to the blue line and that peak Canes could include Martin Necas moving back to center. Continuing with the assertion...

Last week I went a couple rounds deep looking at the just-completed playoff series against the Boston Bruins. At some point, I will get back to the 2019-20 season to take a look at the regular season, individual players and also the playoffs in total. But today's...

With the Carolina Hurricanes playoff push ending at the hands of the same Boston Bruins both in 2019 and again in 2020, the potential is there to at least attempt to measure the team's progress. An important disclaimer is the unique circumstances in 2020 with the...