Last thoughts before the season begins…
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Training camp was brutal from an injury stand-point. Williams out for 4-6 months, Brind'amour's maintenance surgery, Walker out for a few weeks. The Canes have some sort of problem, and it is good to see the GM addressing ...
Halfway through Camp
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »The biggest news today is that Jeff O'Neill and management made a "mutual decision" to end his try-out run. This was obviously coming, as he has been almost entirely ineffective in the Canes' first four pre-season games. Then ...
Williams Injury update
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »According to ESPN, the knee injury from last year was to Williams' left leg. The new Achilles' tendon injury is to his right leg. James Mirtle pointed out that these injuries tend to be related, and cited Selanne's ...
Terrible!!!
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »This must be a joke. I am speechless. From the News and Observer: Canes' Williams to miss 4-6 months Submitted by chipalexander on 09/17/2008 - 16:02 Tags: Lord Stanley's Blog | Justin Williams The Hurricanes suffered a big blow today when forward ...
Staal is a wealthy man
Monday, September 15th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »The triangle area's newest most-eligible bachelor cleaned up. I thought $7.5 per season, but he actually managed to get more than $8 (7 years, $57.75 million total). I like this deal, mostly because the Canes avoided the trend ...
Hockey on the horizon
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »I am glad to see hockey news picking up again in anticipation of the coming season. Nothing particularly interesting to report on the Canes front. Rutherford is trying to resign Eric Staal in anticipation of next year's free ...
O’Neill Update
Thursday, August 7th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »August in the NHL, so not a lot has been happening. Not much has gone on in Raleigh hockey lately, though today's announcement that Jeff O'Neill will indeed be joining the team at training camp and competing for a ...
Dog Days
Monday, July 21st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Nothing much happening in the hockey world at this, the nadir of the NHL calendar. A couple of things worth mentioning. The recent NC Sports Poll has caused quite a stir among Canes fans, primarily due to the possibly ...
Interesting tidbits
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Two semi-interesting things surfaced today, courtesy of Luke DeCock over at the News and Observer. First round draft pick Zach Boychuk needed surgery to repair a wrist injury sustained during the WHL playoffs. The three month rehab time ...
Random Thoughts
Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »No new news from Raleigh, though the News and Observer did run this nice piece on prospect Brandon Sutter. Sutter is the Cane's best prospect, and is more than likely to make the team this fall. My other ...
