Clicks and Clippings: Savoring the moment ('cuz nothing lasts forever)
by hockeymomof2 on Oct 10, 2009 11:23 AM EDT
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A lot of things went right for the Hurricanes last night, and as one of only two games in the NHL Friday, the local boys received far more attention than usual around the League for their total domination of the Florida Panthersat the RBC Center last night.
I appreciated Harwood's observation that the Canes had already turned their focus to the next game even before they hung up their skates last night. That's why they make the big bucks. Luckily, as fans and observers, we can savor the highly entertaining win a wee bit longer. Here is a sampling of stories to enjoy before we also must turn our attention to Tampa Bay this evening:
Turnovers doom Panthers as Hurricanes capitalize early and often in romp - ESPN Also from ESPN.com, their hockey desk uses a "it's so complex it must be objective" formula to name Jokinen, Ruutu, and Cullen as 3 of the top 5 players of the night. Now can they at least get some new headshots?
Friday's 3 Stars: Jokinen, Ward lead 'Canes rout of Panthers - Puck Daddy
Canes Crush 'Cats- NHL.com NHL GameCenter Recap - Jussi Jokinen had a goal and two assists leading the Hurricanes to a dominating 7-2 victory over the Panthers Friday night in Carolina. Lots of video highlights of the goals.
Mike Maniscalco give his Breakdown: Canes hammer Panthers 7-2 - WRALSportsFan.com Twelve different Canes found their way on the stat sheet in the victory. The local press who saw the game live named Matt Cullen, Jussi Jokinen and Niclas Wallinas the 3 stars of the night. Yes - Wallin. Congrats Nikki - well deserved! (Did I mention it's a contract year for him too?)
Here's the News&Observers' Chip Alexander with a re-cap in the print edition this morning; Canes Leave No Doubt
And this positive analysis from Mike Morreale at NHL.com prior to the game: Hurricanes are confident things will blow their way - NHL Insider
A few more stories from our American League prospects in Albany and across the NHL to follow:
The Albany Riverrats made a great turn-around from a tough loss Tuesday getting a resounding win over Portland last night as Harwood highlighted. Here's what they are saying about Boychuk, Sutter and all those very-talented kids who, eager to make the jump to Raleigh, are doing all they can to earn the call-up to the big show:
NHL.com: Boychuk Looking for Albany Impact - With junior hockey behind him Zach Boychuk is embarking on his first pro season, hoping to be an impact player with the Hurricanes' AHL team.
Power play clicks for River Rats - The Record (Troy NY) - Local paper's recap of Friday night's game.
The Rats also have a the second of back-to-back games tonight with the professional debut of exciting young goalie Mike Murphy as the story of the game. QUESTION: How long has it been since the Raleigh fans closely followed the 'rats box score in the Live Game thread of a Cane's game?
Looking beyond the Hurricanes' franchise:
Here's one we can all relate to: Detroit Red Wings forward Johan Franzen out 4 months with torn ACL - ESPN
First came this story from Thursday's 5-4 win by the Penguins over arch-rival the Flyers: Biting? Really? Another bizarre chapter added to the Pittsburgh Penguins-Philadelphia Flyers rivalry - ESPN . Then the follow-up, later yesterday: TSN - Scott Hartnell not suspended due to lack of evidence on biting charge from the Pen's Kris Letang. Apparently the camera phone photo the Pens submitted as proof didn't have a enough meg's.
TSN reports on Fleury's new book "Playing with Fire" After an unsuccessful attempt at a comeback at the age of 41 this summer, Theo Fleury reveals what has long been suspected and goes a fair way to explain his complex and difficult hockey career.
Will Lucic live up to his contract? - From The Rink James Mirtle's story on how Boston's big season last year left them with a lot of tough decisions under the salary cap, and this was one of the toughest. And unless he starts shooting the puck an awful lot more, 21-year old Milan Lucic will have a hard time living up to those dollar figures — at least in the goal department.
And on the lighter side:
Playing right into my hypothesis that "nothing lasts forever" check out this blog post from Canadian Hockey-junkie supplier TSN Duthie: Premature Evaluation: An Embarrassing Problem Yes, we sports fans suffer from the embarrassing medical condition known as Premature Evaluation (PE). One week into the NHL season and we residents of Hockeynation are already pretty sure of a few things.
Remembering the fun we all had this summer as we played the role of Laptop GM, Puck Daddy gives us some background on the website that made it simple to understand the big picture. How Cap Geek turned salary pains into puckhead amusement - Puck Daddy The Cap Geek, Matthew Wuest, a freelance hockey journalist has this to say about the upside of the NHL Salary Cap: "I think it's important for there to be a level playing field between the teams. I think that's where you really get to see who is a good general manager and who isn't," he said. "If there's some limit, you get some real gauge of who manages a team and who's just buying a team." Sounds to me like we've got another insightful summary of our very own Jim Rutherford.
Follow up to the Miracle Speech: The Nashville Predators asked the Tennessee 5-year old to offer up some inspiration to his hometown team with this re-make, filmed in the Pred's locker room this week.
Last - another one of those "lists" that I only just discovered, originally published in August. 30 Dirty Players in 30 Days. The Carolina Hurricanes Looking at the whole NHL team-by-team, this poor blogger really was stymied as he combed the Canes archives to find just one dirty player in the history of the Raleigh team. Nice comments on why he wouldn't name Scott Walker to open.
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heres another story highlighting Boychuk with a recap of the Rats game Friday:
http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=851435&category=RIVERRATS
Good write up for sure. Seems like it gives further proof that this is the best place for Boychuk – for now.
Let's go Canes!
Hakkaa Paalle!
by hockeymomof2 on Oct 10, 2009 2:14 PM EDT up reply actions
Can someone explain the Joni Pitkanen deal to me? It was said he pulled himself from the game Tuesday night. Is his knee sore or does he not have confidence in himself? Seriously, something has to give here. Mo says his knee has heeled fine. Joni is in great shape. Am I missing something here?
Live & Learn
They are not being specific, but it seems like they are waiting for him to make the call. But bottom line, if he doesn’t feel comfortable out there, they don’t want him on the ice.
Mo said last night that unless Pitkanen emphasized that he wanted to play tonight, the coach will stick with the same lineup he had against Florida.
GM of CanesCountry.com
Pitkanen did not make Tampa trip
Canes Now is reporting he stayed home this weekend.
GM of CanesCountry.com
Based on how the Canes played without him last night, I see no reason to rush him in tonight.
Let him rest up for the Pens on wednesday.
As Tripp and John were saying, after tonight the schedule is very light with only 3 games in over 10 days. The defensive showing last night (which includes Cullen and Jokinen) helps give Pits time to be 100%.
Except for that non-existent power play….
Did anyone get the feeling from the efforts of Wallin, Alberts and Harrison that they all have something to prove? The TOI was pretty even, with third pairing Alberts getting more TOI than Wallin. But Nikki was given a third star by on the on-site press and on TV. (Bob – why does the game sheet show Ruutu as the 3rd star chosen by the media?)
5 out of the 6 defensemen had more than 18 minutes ice time last night. Harrison had 14:50. No one had more than 22:09 (Corvo). That’s something new compared to the first 3 games…
Let's go Canes!
Hakkaa Paalle!
by hockeymomof2 on Oct 10, 2009 2:10 PM EDT up reply actions
I thought that was the best aspect of last night’s game. The Canes looked like the deceptively deep team I thought they would be this year. Not just in terms of scoring depth either.
I thought Alberts played a great game. That “roughing” penalty they called on him near the end of the second was horse.
HM, Ruuty was the 3rd star last night. I think John and Tripp’s stars may have been different on the broadcast but that was the order they were announced in the arena (Cullen/Jokinen/Ruutu).
And I agree that it was very nice that the score gave us the luxury of being able to distribute the minutes last night to rest up guys for tonight. I think they were pretty well distributed among the forwards as well, I know Staal’s minutes were lower than normal.
Listen to Rats' games online
So have we had any Kitty fans screaming about the dive call last night? God, I’m sick of that argument….
Satan is just a coping mechanism for monotheists.
Personally I think the concurrent diving/tripping call is a massive cop out and it drives me juts every time. Don’t care if a guy maybe embellished a little, either it was tripping or it wasn’t. Make a decision ref.
Drives me nuts every time it happens. Even to our benefit. Hate hate hate it.
by Iggy Reilly on Oct 10, 2009 3:54 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
I never understood how it could be a hooking call to one team (or whatever they called it) and a dive to the player on the other team. The refs lately have been on crack it is either a hook or a dive…. but calling both is bull crap bogus!
by Mateos_Canes_Lamp on Oct 10, 2009 5:47 PM EDT up reply actions
Good news from Tampa – back up goalie Nittymaki to start tonight.
(Shucks, I grew so fond of that classy Mike Smith when he had Yelle wrapped up there Tuesday. Probably better no one will be looking for paybacks, Timmy 1 and Timmy 2.)
Let's go Canes!
Hakkaa Paalle!
Enemy press
Really excellent cache of media finds, hockeymomof2. Saves me a lot of poking around time to just come here first.
One source I always enjoy reading both before and after confrontatons is the “enemy press”. The majority of relevant newspaper articles are nicely gathered and sorted by date and team at this website: HeadlineHockey.com
Here’s that site conveniently opened to the Florida Panthers page, where three articles about last night’s game can be found.
Way cool – good to know. Thank you! I’ll add it to my source-stash.
Here’s the Tampa Bay page – scouting report for tonights game and something about Hedman – boy he looked strong vs New Jersey the other day. Even mixed it up a bit, defending his goalie (liek Smith needed that) and looked in charge when he did so.
Let's go Canes!
Hakkaa Paalle!
by hockeymomof2 on Oct 10, 2009 5:21 PM EDT up reply actions
Cane's romp
Just another win for the no new’s cane’s. Oh guess what nothing for Versus either. As if we needed it. So now the men have to go down to Tampa Bay and pull out another win.
robert
I’m back onto my Gary Bettman is a douchebag rant again…
‘cause he’s now considering moving a team back to QC
by Andrea's evil twin on Oct 10, 2009 5:46 PM EDT reply actions
I personally wouldn’t be bothered if they moved a team back to Quebec City. I have always wanted to ask: What is a Nordic anyway?
by Mateos_Canes_Lamp on Oct 10, 2009 5:58 PM EDT up reply actions
Not a problem with moving back to QC, just the shit that he pulled with (not) moving Phx to ON, now it’s suddenly in the works to move to QC? I call bullshit.
by Andrea's evil twin on Oct 10, 2009 10:35 PM EDT up reply actions
Hey, been over on that whiner's board.....
you know the Hartford Whalers booster club where “Ponytail Pete, his Candy Canes and their fans all suck” board?
One of them, Indianawhaler, says the Canes are losing money. I asked him to back it up but he’d rather shoot of his mouth.
It is my understanding that the Canes are actually turning a profit. What are the facts?
A conservative is someone who wants to get rid of all illegal immigrants,
Just as soon as those guys finish mowing his yard and building the shed
I’m not sure if they are turning a profit or not. But judging by the increase in payroll… and the amount of money spent on improvements to the arena (notably the scoreboard which is bigger than my house) It’s probably safe to say that they are not losing money……
by Mateos_Canes_Lamp on Oct 10, 2009 6:00 PM EDT up reply actions
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