by Matt Karash | Mar 15, 2017 | On The Beat
Eric Staal’s time with the Carolina Hurricanes Exactly 1 year and 17 days have passed since Eric Staal was traded from the Carolina Hurricanes to the New York Rangers just prior to the 2016 NHL trade deadline. The move was a massive change and reset for the...
by Matt Karash | Dec 11, 2015 | Daily Cup of Joe
First let me say upfront that I am NOT in the ‘Eric Staal is playing horribly right now, so he must be traded’ camp. His scoring is a bit light, but I think Eric Staal has actually been playing pretty good hockey overall. I also think he has quietly put...
by Matt Karash | Sep 30, 2015 | Daily Cup of Joe, GM/Coaches’ Seat
Today on an otherwise fairly quiet rainy Tuesday in Raleigh, a bomb dropped about mid-day about a rumor that Eric Staal was asking for $9 million per year. The article was on The Hockey News but the source was actually Renaud Lavoie from Le Journal de Montreal....
by Matt Karash | Sep 13, 2015 | Memory Lane
Carolina Hurricanes history has been a rollercoaster ride that has seen the team rise up to the top of the NHL hockey world only to quickly fall back to its bottom. Eric Staal was the Canes reward for the fall from reaching the 2002 Stanley Cup Finals to missing the...
by Matt Karash | Aug 25, 2015 | Daily Cup of Joe
It was the spring of 2004. The memory of the great Stanley Cup Finals run of 2002 had been mostly washed away by two painful seasons of disappointing Canes hockey. The Canes missed the playoffs in 2002-03 and was even worse in 2003-04. At the point where the 2003-04...
