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Malone’s hat trick beats Canes

by David Lee on 10/11/09 at 11:12 AM ET
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On Saturday night, the Hurricanes played the back end of their second back-to-back set, and for the second time, they lost. This time it was Ryan Malone and the blue-clad City of Tampa Lightning. Based on his success this season, Malone would love to play the Canes every night

I didn’t get to watch this game, as I had to fill in at work for one of my lazy employees. Also, I missed an unannounced concert by my favorite musician because I found out about it too late. For that show, I would have made something else happen at work. Anyway, I avoided any exposure to the game while I was at work, I went home to watch the DVR. Just as I was about to sit down to that, a friend IMed me and accidentally spoilt the game for me. Not a good night for me.

The Canes managed to get the power play rolling, and the 5-2 score suggests that it wasn’t close, but it was.

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Is Brind’Amour the problem?

by David Lee on 02/15/09 at 01:14 PM ET
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One year ago yesterday, Carolina lost captain Rod Brind’Amour for the remainder of the season with torn knee ligaments. He played just one shift in that game against the Penguins. The rest of the team, especially Eric Staal had to step up their game. Including that game, the Hurricanes went 15-6-2 in their last 23 games. Unfortunately, the Capitals went 16-5-2 in their last 23, including an amazing 11-1-0 in their last 12. That and a final game home loss by the Canes meant no playoffs for Carolina.

If Carolina could have played at that rate (without Brind’Amour) for the entire season, that would have meant 114 standings points and home ice advantage for the first round. Everyone was impressed by how everyone stepped up. Everyone was thrilled with Staal’s and Sergei Samsonov’s production Staal had 34 (11/23) points in those 23 games, while SerSam had 20 (9/11). At that time, nobody dreamed of suggesting that the Hurricanes are better off without Brindy. Now it’s a different story.

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Scott Walker: concussion or vertigo

by David Lee on 02/11/09 at 09:06 PM ET
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I look up, I look down. I look up, I look down....
After a successful West coast road trip, the Hurricanes returned home for a few days off before a big home game against the Panthers on Thursday. They took Monday off and when they returned to practice on Tuesday, a couple of the injured were there. Rod Brind’Amour, who was sent home to nurse his groin injury and defenseman Dennis Seidenberg practiced for the first time in a week. Brindy will hope to make a return to the lineup on Thursday, while Seidenberg will remain on the IR with his own groin issue.

Meanwhile, right wing Scott Walker continues to be totally out of commission with an “upper body” injury that is rumored to be a concussion. Now, though, there’s speculation that he’s suffering from vertigo.

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Finally, the truth about Rod.

by David Lee on 02/04/09 at 07:14 PM ET
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After months of speculation, finally the truth has come out about Canes captain Rod Brind’Amour. From today’s online N&O:

Canes coach Paul Maurice said today that team captain Rod Brind’Amour was returning to Raleigh and would not play in the games in San Jose and Phoenix.

”Roddy has a nagging injury that’s not getting any better, so we’re sending him back,” Maurice said. “We want him to get some treatment the next four or five days.”

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Canes steal one, await Habs

by David Lee on 11/17/08 at 02:04 PM ET
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On Sunday, the black-clad Hurricanes came from two goals down to defeat the visiting Lightning 3-2, needing the shootout to get the win.

Things got off on the wrong foot when Carolina ran a sloppy power play. They committed a turnover deep in the offensive zone. Because a defenseman was pinching and Tampa’s man was coming out of the box, the turnover resulted in a three-on-one and a goal by Martin St. Louis at 11:20 of the first. Former Hurricane Radim Vrbata got the only assist.

Early in the second, Vincent Lecavalier potted a power play goal on a very goofy play that should have been whistled dead. Tampa was making a change and the puck was going to clear the zone, but it hit the skate of a player leaving the ice. He was the sixth man on the ice at that point, and while it may have been inadvertent, it kept the play on-side. Seeing as how Carolina had just been called for a too many men penalty, this should have been noticed. It wasn’t. The Canes stopped playing and the Bolts scored. The Horseman from the Recchin’ Ball and Steve Eminger at 4:05.

All was not lost, though. The Canes regrouped and ended up stealing the win.

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Back in Black: Bolts at Canes

by David Lee on 11/16/08 at 11:46 AM ET
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On Sunday afternoon, the Lightning will visit the Hurricanes for the first time this season. In their only previous meeting this year, Carolina came from behind to win in overtime in Tampa behind Eric Staal’s two goal effort.

This will also be the first game for the Bolts under the direction of Rick “Wagergate” Tocchet.

Carolina will be wearing their alternate black sweaters for the third time. Thus far, they have gone 1-1-0 wearing them. They will wear them at home 12 more times, and have recently added two road games for which they will don the third (December 11 @ Philly and December 13 @ Rangers). The game is being telecast by the Lightning only.

Rod Brind’Amour is one point shy of becoming #50 on the all-time NHL points list. He is currently tied with Joe Nieuwendyk (564/562) and HOFer Mike Bossy (573/553) with 1126 career points. A single point will also tie him for third on the Whaler/Canes all-time scoring list.

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Canes close preseason with win

by David Lee on 10/05/08 at 06:16 PM ET
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After losing the first three exhibition games (and looking bad doing so) the Hurricanes rattled off three straight wins to finish the preseason. Carolina will start playing games that count on Friday with a home game against the Panthers.

Eric Staal and Ray Whitney scored today for a 2-0 shutout over the Preds. Cam Ward went the distance, making 31 stops with both teams pretty much fielding the “A team”.

For the first time all preseason, Rod Brind’Amour played. He skated 19 shifts for a total of 15:04 of ice time. He took just 13 of the faceoffs, compared to 17 taken by Brandon Sutter. This was pretty much the plan: to use him sparingly.

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