Carolina Hurricanes

By By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Jason Blake scored on a power play with 8:24 left and Jonas Gustavsson made 34 saves to help the Toronto Maple Leafs win for the second time in 14 games this season, 3-2 over the Carolina Hurricanes on Friday night.

While the Florida Panthers are showing signs that their dismal start could be turning around, things just keep getting worse for the Carolina Hurricanes. Carolina's most recent victory came against the Panthers on Oct. 9, but the visiting Hurricanes will be without star center Eric Staa...

San Jose has had little trouble racking up wins so far this season, though it's only in the last week or so the Sharks feel they've actually started playing well. Kent Huskins and Brad Staubitz scored 1:22 apart in the second period, and Evgeni Nabokov made 25 saves as surging San Jose contin...

Flyers defenseman Braydon Coburn waited five years for his first two-goal game in the NHL. Then he took care of the feat in 1 1/2 minutes. Coburn scored twice and Scott Hartnell and Matt Carle each had a goal and two assists to help Philadelphia snap a two game losing streak and send the Carolin...

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St. Louis Blues coach Andy Murray says there's no secret to his team's road success early this season. "The bottom line is we just haven't been very good at home," Murray said Wednesday night after the Blues improved to 3-1-1 on the road with a 5-2 victory over the Carolina Hurricanes. "All the...

David Perron had two goals, Yan Stastny and Jay McClement scored 16 seconds apart, and Chris Mason made 34 saves to help the St. Louis Blues beat the Carolina Hurricanes 5-2 on Wednesday night. Stastny and McClement gave St. Louis - 3-1-1 on the road - a 3-0 lead before Joe Corvo scored for Carol...

The Hurricanes didn't exactly have a lot of history on their side during a two-game weekend set. They fell to 1-3-3 all-time at Minnesota by losing in overtime. The lone victory came exactly eight years earlier on Oct. 24, 2001. On the first night of the back-to-back set, the Hurricanes droppe...

As expected by everyone, including his own head coach, it was announced this morning that Carolina Hurricanes...

After watching injured teammate Darcy Tucker taken off the ice on a backboard, Milan Hejduk and Wojtek Wolski scored goals in quick succession and the Colorado Avalanche went on to beat the Carolina Hurricanes 5-4 on Friday night. Tucker was checked into the boards by Carolina forward Tu...

In 1997, the Hartford Whalers relocated to become the Carolina Hurricanes. Since then, the Whale have gained a...

Ryan Malone had three goals, including a go-ahead score midway through the third period, and the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Carolina Hurricanes 5-2 on Saturday night. Malone made it 3-2 from the slot with 9:14 to play after receiving a nifty pass from Martin St. Louis. After Steve Downie ex...

No. 1 star: Jussi Jokinen, Carolina Hurricanes Jokinen was the main man in Carolina's 7-2 rout of the Florida...

Eric Staal had a power-play goal and an assist to help the Carolina Hurricanes beat the Nashville Predators 5-2 in exhibition play Saturday night. Jussi Jokinen, Ray Whitney, Scott Walker and Tim Conboy also scored for Carolina (2-2-0). J.P. Dumont and Patric Hornqvist scored for Nashvill...

The Carolina Hurricanes announced this morning that another five players have been assigned to the Albany (N.Y.) River Rats, the club's American Hockey League affiliate.

The Carolina Hurricanes had some flashes of good play. But there were also a few too many poor passes, sloppy turnovers and defensive lapses that added up to a 4-2 loss to the Nashville Predators at the RBC Center.

Carolina Hurricanes goaltending coach Tom Barrasso was named to the United States’ Hockey Hall of Fame’s Class of 2009 as a player, one of five inductees to be enshrined.

It was similar to the way the Boston Bruins used Zdeno Chara against Carolina Hurricanes star Eric Staal in the second round this year. Crosby and Malkin are enjoying themselves, so you have to frustrate them. You can't just let them waltz around and ...

News & Observer, NC The Carolina Hurricanes toppled the New Jersey Devils and the Boston Bruins, the best team in the Eastern Conference. Pittsburgh turned out to be too much. The Canes' unlikely postseason run ended Tuesday night with a 4-1 loss on their home ice.

One of the most oft-repeated stats of the 2009 Stanley Cup playoffs is how very good the Carolina Hurricanes...

ESPN's Scott Burnside reports that Red Wings VP Steve Yzerman just happened to watch the Pittsburgh Penguins 6-2 win over the Carolina Hurricanes while wearing two managerial hats: May 23, ESPN : The Pens, meanwhile, have poured 31 shots at Cam Ward, who will be unhappy to learn that Cana...

Pittsburgh, PA (Sports Network) - Evgeni Malkin had a goal and an assist while Marc-Andre Fleury made 23 saves to help the Pittsburgh Penguins take Game 1 of their Eastern Conference final series against the Carolina Hurricanes with a 3-2 win. ...

jumping up and down in his TV room when he saw the overtime winner that sent the Carolina Hurricanes through to the Eastern Conference final. It means his older brother Eric is one series away from playing for the second Stanley Cup of his career. ...

And after that 3-0 loss, they might also be stirred to a new level of performance when the Carolina Hurricanes host them Wednesday in Game3. The invincible Zdeno Chara, the Norris Trophy favorite, was minus-3, a negative figure he approached only twice ...

Boston, MA (Sports Network) - Cam Ward made 36 stops for his fourth career playoff shutout, helping the Carolina Hurricanes take a 3-0 win over the Boston Bruins in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference semifinal at TD Banknorth Garden. ... Hurricanes at Bruins Preview ESPN

Mitchell Layton/NHLI via Getty Images For 60 minutes and more the Capitals and Carolina Hurricanes traded scoring chances on Saturday night at Verizon Center. It was firewagon hockey at its best and no lead was safe — a 5-on-1 breakaway as likely to ...

by Dave Nichols (Scribe) The Washington Capitals (40-20-5-85, first in Southeast) played a second straight game full of defensive indifference, sloppy passing, and shoddy goaltending in falling to the Carolina Hurricanes, 5-2, before 17903 at Verizon ...

failed to match the intensity of a Southeast Division opponent making a desperate push for the Stanley Cup playoffs. Caps goalie Michal Neuvirth allowed five goals on 30 shots during Washington’s 5-2 loss to the Carolina Hurricanes Tuesday night. ...

AP WASHINGTON: Capitals goalie Jose Theodore is out of the starting lineup for Tuesday night's game against the Carolina Hurricanes due to the flu. Rookie backup Michal Neuvirth will make his third career NHL start in place of Theodore who will be ...

By Greg Wyshynski Preview: New Jersey Devils at Carolina Hurricanes (7 p.m. EST; TV: MSG). The Devils are 8-1-1 in their last 10 games against the Hurricanes. Meanwhile, Brandon Sutter watched his dad Brent take an embarrassing spill during the morning skate. Rookie.

By Greg Wyshynski • Mike Green and Sergei Fedorov should be back in the lineup for the Washington Capitals tonight against the Ottawa Senators. [Capitals Insider] • Carolina Hurricanes star Eric Staal gets the ESPN/David Amber treatment, and puts over Evgeni Malkin as the best player in the NHL today. [ESP...

By Greg Wyshynski • The 1974-75 Washington Capitals, 1980-81 Winnipeg Jets and 1992-93 Ottawa Senators all make the Sports Illustrated gallery for worst seasons for a team. "Lose-ipeg." Still funny. [SI] • Fox Sports Carolina apologizes for cutting into Carolina Hurricanes games with unscheduled comme...

By Greg Wyshynski • The 1974-75 Washington Capitals, 1980-81 Winnipeg Jets and 1992-93 Ottawa Senators all make the Sports Illustrated gallery for worst seasons for a team. "Lose-ipeg." Still funny. [SI] • Fox Sports Carolina apologizes for cutting into Carolina Hurricanes games with unscheduled comme...

By Matt Romig Just like in his playing days, Coyotes coach Wayne Gretzky saw the play developing before it happened. Before the game even started, actually. Prior to Friday's Phoenix-Carolina tilt in Raleigh, Gretzky admitted he was "a little nervous" about facing Staal, a proven scorer mired in an ei...

By Greg Wyshynski Carolina's offense had been anemic entering its game with the Montreal Canadiens. Goalie Carey Price shut down the Canes through the first two periods, en route to a 46-save night. Thinks looked bleak. That was until Sergei Samsonov shocked the world with his first goal of the season in the t...

Team happy he is back after he played seven games with NHL's Hurricanes It is amazing," he said after practice Tuesday. "It's everything you dream of as a kid, to get out there and actually play the Toronto Maple Leafs, a team I grew up as a kid as a fan of. To get seven games is amazing." AHL glance

By Greg Wyshynski • Snapshots takes a look at some political hockey issues, including a scenario in which a Brian Burke/Ron Wilson/Toronto Maple Leafs US Olympic team takes on a Steve Yzerman/Mike Babcock/Detroit Red Wings Canadian Olympic team. Uh, can we trade? [Snapshots]

By Greg Wyshynski Preview: Detroit Red Wings at Tampa Bay Lightning (7:30 p.m. EST; TV: FSD, SUN). Let's see ... a tremendously pissed Wings team, a Lightning team that was just shut out by the Panthers ... well, that's why they play the games, right? The Lightning seem to believe they have a defensive advantage tonig...

By Dave Nichols Washington -- Washington Capitals LW Alexander Semin scored twice in the third period, including the game-winner with 11 seconds remaining in the game, to lead the Caps past the division leading Carolina Hurricanes 3-2, pulling to within two points of the division lead in the process.

By Matt Brehaut Sunday's brunch battle between the Edmonton Oilers and Philadelphia Flyers was more than just a solid Oilers victory. This was a breakout game for the Oil offense and a glimpse at the vision Kevin Lowe had for his hockey club. After winning a hard fought contest with the Carolina Hurricanes...

By Kevin McRae In recent years, the NHL has made a concerted effort to crackdown on hits to the head in an effort to ensure the safety of players.  Saturday night we saw another example of a brutal, albeit unintentional, hit to the head in the game between the New York Islanders and the Carolina Hurricanes. 

ALBANY ? Media day is an annual ritual for most professional sports teams where optimism is high and breaking news rare.All of that changed Wednesday when the Albany River Rats held their gathering. Murley, a Troy native and RPI graduate, left despite having a valid contract with the Carol...

By Greg Wyshynski • The defensemen for the USA Hockey team for the 2010 Olympics aren't too shabby. You can do a hell of a lot worse than a Brian Rafalski/Mike Komisarek top pairing. Like, for example, an Aaron Miller/Brett Hedican top pairing. Just sayin'. [USA TODAY]

By Joe MacDonald Here are the Fantasy Hockey Network’s picks for the top five fantasy prospects in the Carolina Hurricanes’ system: 1. Drayson Bowman, LW 2. Zach Boychuk, C Boston Bruins: Fantasy Prospect Report Buffalo Sabres: Fantasy Prospect Report 

Hurricanes lament missed chances that kept them out of playoffs  NC - By AP RALEIGH, NC (AP) - The Carolina Hurricanes held their annual end-of-the-season team meeting today, but there wasn't a lot to say. ... Rutherford delays Laviolette's review News & Observer

Rod Brind'Amour scored two goals, including one allowed after a video review, and the Carolina Hurricanes rebounded from their first home shutout of the season to beat the Florida Panthers 2-1 Saturday night.

Rod Brind'Amour scored two goals, including one allowed after a video review, and the Carolina Hurricanes rebounded from their first home shutout of the season to beat the Florida Panthers 2-1 Saturday night.

Canes Agree to Terms With Backup Goalie  NC - The Carolina Hurricanes have agreed to terms with goalie Michael Leighton, the team announced Friday. Leighton agreed to a one-year contract with $550000 at ... Hurricanes re-sign G Leighton to one-year deal Seattle Post Intelligencer

MINNEAPOLIS Carolina Hurricanes star Eric Staal and his brother, Jordan, of the Pittsburgh Penguins, were arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor disorderly conduct and obstructing the legal process at Erics bachelor party at a Minnesota resort.

SLAM! SportsPens drop fifth straight to Hurricanes © 2006 AP. RALEIGH, NC — Rod Brind'Amour had a goal and an assist, and the Carolina Hurricanes routed the Pittsburgh Penguins 6-2 on Saturday night. ... Canes get revenge on scoreboard Durham Herald Sun Hurricanes 6 Penguins 2 WHBF

 - Cole will try to lead the Carolina Hurricanes to their fifth win in seven games when they meet Brooks Orpik and the struggling Pittsburgh Penguins at the RBC ... Canes settle score News & Observer News & Observer - Durham Herald Sun