Cam Ward With Shut Out: Hurricanes 1, Thrashers 0

Yes, I’m so sick of the non-stop Ovi and Sid coverage. I am aware they are great players but you’d like to think they would try and market more than just those two, especially when the Finals roll around and neither are in it like last year. Needless to say, this annoys the hell out of me.

As for bashing the Canes – I can’t really see why since all I’m hoping for this year is them sneaking in the playoff as a 7 or 8 seed. If they’re in the playoffs this year – I’d see it as a success. Boychuk continuing to be invisible is the one thing disturbing me. They ain’t really putting pucks in the net but minus Ward’s two-minute debacle against the Panthers – the D and goaltending seem to be playing quite well.

If memory serves, turnover by the Trash, Skinner with a 10 foot shot. Chuck said it was an open net.

Turnaround wrister from about 10 feet off the rebound from a missed Erik Cole shot.

Erik with the sole assist.

And i mistyped her twitter name. It’s @hockeypuck30

www.daylife.com has some good pictures up that weren’t on the Canes’ site. Just search for “Carolina Hurricanes” and they are in chronological order by game.

LOL I’d say those are better than average. Way better. I love the perspective from the fisheye lens, now I’m going to have to try that in the arena sometime!

awesome. thanks for the shoutout! I got on here and saw the pic and realized that was mine! I’ll hopefully be uploading more pictures I took from that night. Of course they don’t compare to LTD’s by any means, but I hope you all enjoy. I’ll send out a link on Twitter when I do get them up. Thanks!

They weren’t on the ice together.

Think they have to work with who is on the ice, both before the stoppage and whoever is the next line change that exits the stoppage.

LaRose was Samsonov’s line mate, so of course on the ice and first to his side.

Gleason wasn’t part of the D-pairing that was on the ice when the tripping occurred (Harrison – McBain) per the play-by-play game report. But, I’m assuming that the Gleason-Corvo pairing were swapped for them as the whistle blew.

So, Staal was just not on the ice…but an alternate captain was.

I was at the game, one section back from the goal and I saw the whole event clearly, a little too clearly – it was down right scary. Staal came over immediately and then went to the bench to report his evaluation. Larose buzzed around the whole time Sammy was down, also going to the bench a couple times but only to return ASAP. Gleason came out later and spoke to a referee. They had a long conversation in which the ref was clearly explaining the details of what happened (he used a lot of body language/arm gestures) all the while Tim is staring daggers at the Thrashers, as if he was trying to find out who the guilty party was (Byfuglien) or who was going to pay for it. Tim and Chad were the two most active as Sammy was being taken care of, and they both gave Sammy their best wishes while he was being carted off. Wardo took a knee for the majority of the time and Mason did his part by removing the goal to give everyone more room to tend to Sammy. Then he stayed in the corner and watched/stretched. I had never seen both teams come out and warm up after an injury before, but they did. Everyone came out and skated in circles for a while. There was a nice guy in front of me, he wore a Chicago Hossa jersey, and he said he’d never seen anyone on the ice that long or the warm-up period either.

It was an accident, I know the tripping was intentional, but I doubt Byfuglien meant for Sammy to go into the boards… who knows. But I knew that Tim would get into a fight over it, it just took longer than I expected. And it was nice to see Harrison take it upon himself to get some revenge for Sammy, too.