Right before Justin Williams joined a Zoom call with the media to discuss his new role as special adviser to Hurricanes general manager Don Waddell, he was talking to former teammate, longtime friend and current […]
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 […]
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 — […]
It makes perfect sense that Justin Williams would retire from the NHL on Oct. 8. There was no way he was hanging up his skates on the 7th. The three-time Stanley Cup winner known as […]
In the end, the Hurricanes exited the Stanley Cup Playoffs the same way they did last season, at the hands of the powerhouse Boston Bruins. With Wednesday’s 2-1 loss in Game 5 in Toronto, it […]
The Eastern Conference Quarterfinal series between the Carolina Hurricanes and Boston Bruins has been as much about how isn’t playing as who is. A series that started with Carolina being without Brett Pesce but getting […]
Through two periods, it looked like the Carolina Hurricanes were going to even their Eastern Conference Quarterfinal series with the Boston Bruins. Game 4, as it turns out, included a third period. And the Hurricanes […]
Carolina Hurricanes coach Rod Brind’Amour, $25,000 poorer due to his comments after Game 1 of his team’s Eastern Conference Quarterfinal series with the Boston Bruins, wasn’t about to risk lightening his wallet even more. Especially […]
The wait, it turns out, wasn’t worth it. The Carolina Hurricanes, scheduled for a week off and then forced to wait another day after the preceding Toronto bubble game went to five overtimes Tuesday night, […]
The Carolina Hurricanes didn’t have trouble manufacturing intensity in their official return to ice, hitting, fighting and penalty killing their way to a 3-2 win Saturday in Game 1 of their five-game series with the […]
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