It took one game for the Carolina Hurricanes to have a player land on the NHL’s COVID-19 protocol list. Captain Jordan Staal, who played in Thursday’s season-opening 3-0 win in Detroit, was one of three […]
The Carolina Hurricanes scored in the opening four minutes and then in the final three, adding a cherry-on-top empty-net goal in their season-opening 3-0 win over the Red Wings in Detroit. Nino Niederreiter, Ryan Dzingel […]
RALEIGH — Coming into every season — be it college, pros, high school or beer league; baseball, basketball, football or hockey — there’s always a prevailing theme for a team. Maybe there’s a hotshot newcomer […]
RALEIGH — Hockey’s back, but even for the most knowledgeable fans who track player movement, keep tabs on which coaches land where, analyze and fret over the draft, and scour the salary cap for loopholes […]
RALEIGH — The Carolina Hurricanes opened their abbreviated training camp for the 2020‑21 season this week without a lot of questions about how the opening night lineup will look. Coach Rod Brind’Amour will need to […]
After an unpredictable 2020, the NSJ sports staff is still going to take a swing at what will happen in 2021. Sports editor Cory Lavalette and staff writers Brett Friedlander and Shawn Krest try and […]
Sports, like life, is often about opportunity. If Drew Bledsoe had never been injured, Tom Brady may have not taken over as Patriots quarterback and led New England to six Super Bowls. And if Carolina […]
The Carolina Hurricanes and the NHL will start the 2020-21 (2021?) season on Jan. 13. There are still plenty of unknowns on how the planned 56-game season in which teams will play eight times against […]
The NHL will have to play a condensed schedule to stuff 82 games into a 2020-21 season that will start, at the earliest, nearly three months late on Jan. 1, 2021. The whole league — […]
Free agency got off to a slow start for the Carolina Hurricanes, but things picked up on Day 2. Carolina signed Swedish right wing Jesper Fast to a three-year, $6 million contract Saturday, adding another […]
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