The Carolina Hurricanes traded away their first-round pick Friday night during the 2021 NHL Draft, grabbing two second-rounders for the final six rounds on Saturday. It wasn’t the only pick swap the team’s front office […]
A funny thing happened on the way to the 2021 NHL Draft. In a year that many warned would lead to spotty scouting and uncertainty, the top draft pundits and prognosticators mostly agreed on which […]
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 — […]
After a nearly eight-hour marathon Day 2 of the NHL Draft, a weary Darren Yorke — the Carolina Hurricanes director of player personnel — was quick to credit the months of work his scouts and […]
The 2019-20 NHL season finally ended Monday night — more than three months after it was initially supposed to conclude — with the Tampa Bay Lightning claiming their second Stanley Cup. While next season’s start […]
The North State Journal’s list of the top 100 prospects in the 2020 NHL Draft is compiled using a formula that compiles data from several scouting services and publications and assigns a grade to each […]
The biggest news involving the Carolina Hurricanes coming out of the 2019 NHL Draft was the team using it’s available cap space to wrestle a 2020 first-round pick away from the Toronto Maple Leafs in […]
RALEIGH — The crown jewels of the 2019 NHL Draft class are two dominant forwards: American center Jack Hughes and Finnish power forward Kaapo Kakko. The New Jersey Devils, who hold the first overall pick […]
The Carolina Hurricanes will have 10 picks in this weekend’s NHL Draft, which kickoffs Friday night with the first round. Unlike last year when Carolina picked second overall pick and landed Andrei Svechnikov, the Hurricanes […]
RALEIGH — The expansion Vegas Golden Knights proved this season that a team can not only compete but thrive with a team-first mentality. That doesn’t change the fact that the NHL is a league of […]
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