9/5/2008 2:34:53 PM

9/5/2008 3:35:02 PM

i tried to find a pic of k. adams from '02 when he was wearing #15 to no avail

9/5/2008 3:43:30 PM

FRANKEN

RUUTU

9/5/2008 4:16:41 PM

CanesConnect about the thirds came in today, and I don't like the look of this:

9/5/2008 4:48:16 PM

shit. i don't know if i'm gonna like that either

9/5/2008 4:59:37 PM

yeah I got the email and was like wtf

9/5/2008 5:15:43 PM

I highly doubt we'll have black denim jerseys

9/5/2008 5:41:05 PM

^lol



HERE COMES THE ICE!

[Edited on September 5, 2008 at 6:06 PM. Reason : trippy]

9/5/2008 6:04:21 PM

this is the only team I have to look forward to this year

god it is hard being a state fan

[Edited on September 5, 2008 at 7:00 PM. Reason : .]

9/5/2008 6:59:58 PM

could be the shoulder

9/5/2008 7:13:05 PM

most likely

9/5/2008 7:23:40 PM

i'm sure it's the shoulder, but still...fucking monochrome?

9/5/2008 9:26:53 PM

I assumed the pic was just monochrome as to not give too much away and be mysterious. Also, not seeing any piping.

9/5/2008 10:54:42 PM

I would be all about an all-black jersey. That would be totally badass (and with any luck the 'Canes will be badass like the All Blacks--which would be cool).

9/6/2008 1:44:31 AM

If they come out with an all-black jersey they better take their asses to Auckland or Wellington and learn the haka.

9/6/2008 3:31:56 AM

God I am excited

I hope we wreck the Southeastern

9/6/2008 5:33:54 AM

here comes the first layer of teh ice.

9/7/2008 3:38:34 PM

i can confirm that is indeed the shoulder. I heard they look sweet.

9/7/2008 5:48:35 PM

first layer of white paint is down!

9/7/2008 7:11:26 PM

yayayayayaya

almost hockey time

9/7/2008 8:34:01 PM

here comes the lines

9/7/2008 9:51:20 PM

ALTERNATE LOGO AT CENTER ICE WAT?

9/7/2008 10:49:53 PM

i dunno, i always like the eye logo, not really a fan of this one

9/8/2008 9:04:59 AM

AWESOME

good call to change up center ice.

why not?

9/8/2008 11:36:59 AM

whoah center ice is weird.

i totally understand the X logo last season, but using the alternate logo? I don't dislike it; it's just a surprise...

9/8/2008 11:52:01 AM

well, since we're wearing the third jersey for almost half of the home games

and the third jersey has the gale flag as the front crest

it makes sense

9/8/2008 2:06:37 PM

hooray for less sponsors?

9/8/2008 3:14:08 PM

i like the new center ice.

9/8/2008 3:14:51 PM

^^ they probably aren't done yet

i want to say last year they stayed blank for awhile, until the season started just about.


and i think that'd probably be a bad thing

9/8/2008 3:58:01 PM

i wonder what's with the black rectangles on each end of the center circle

9/8/2008 4:04:38 PM

That's the RBC logo

9/8/2008 4:14:44 PM

lol, shows how much attention i pay to the graphics

9/8/2008 6:41:13 PM

i'm not sure if i like this yet.

i'd pretty sure i'd like it if they'd change the logo to a real hurricane warning

9/8/2008 7:08:03 PM

they'd have to make the stick super long to fit both flags and it'd look goofy

9/8/2008 7:34:35 PM

yeah i kinda thought about that too, its just a little annoying, but its whatev

i'll probably like it once i see it in person

9/8/2008 7:39:26 PM

I'm pumped as shit to see the new jersey.

9/8/2008 8:54:34 PM

the full-size gale flag crest has been around for a long time...it has much finer detail than the shoulder

they made a bunch of them when we were supposed to get a third jersey around five years ago, but they scrapped the idea so they put all of the full-size gale crests on mustard colored practice jerseys

it'll look good

9/8/2008 8:56:55 PM

apparently, it will be Gleason that'll paired with Pitkanen on the 1st line, not Corvo like I'd thought.

9/9/2008 1:40:14 PM

I think we want a pairing that can each log a good 25 minutes a game or so and really be out there in most situations. Pitkanen and Gleason create a true #1 pairing IMO (some might disagree).

9/9/2008 1:43:55 PM

They moved the REX logo to the other side... strange

9/9/2008 3:50:07 PM

nah, i think it's in the same spot. above and right of the center logo. and the chevy logo below and left of the center logo.
the pictures were taken from opposite ends of the arena.

9/9/2008 4:30:58 PM

I'm not talking about the photo. I'm talking about the webcam. Yesterday they were on the same side of the ice.

9/9/2008 4:45:24 PM

From 8-10 games in HD to 25 games in HD.. I guess that's pretty good progress.

OH WAIT ALL THE HD GAMES ARE AT HOME GOD DAMN IT, and i guarantee the games that I won't be able to make it to at home will not be in HD. fucking bullshit

Quote :

"10/10/08 Florida @ Carolina 10/13/08 Detroit @ Carolina 11/01/08 Edmonton @ Carolina 11/02/08 Toronto @ Carolina 11/12/08 Washington @ Carolina 11/21/08 Phoenix @ Carolina 11/26/08 Philadelphia @ Carolina 12/04/08 Pittsburgh @ Carolina 12/06/08 Philadelphia @ Carolina 12/16/08 Montreal @ Carolina 12/18/08 Florida @ Carolina 12/31/08 Atlanta @ Carolina 01/02/09 St. Louis @ Carolina 01/29/09 Tampa Bay @ Carolina 01/31/09 Atlanta @ Carolina 02/12/09 Florida @ Carolina 02/14/09 Columbus @ Carolina 02/17/09 BOS @ Carolina 02/20/09 Tampa Bay @ Carolina 02/26/09 Buffalo @ Carolina 03/06/09 Calgary @ Carolina 03/18/09 New Jersey @ Carolina 03/20/09 New York Islanders @ Carolina 03/21/09 Washington @ Carolina 03/25/09 Ottawa @ Carolina"

how do we go from 8/10 away games in HD to 25 home games in HD?

and by the way, I don't know why we would if we really do get a new jumbotron after this season but did we put a matrix board over the video screens now where the sponsor panels were? or maybe it's just blank right now

[Edited on September 9, 2008 at 6:26 PM. Reason : ]

9/9/2008 6:22:35 PM

Just gonna repost what I said at HF

Quote :

"We got hosed. Plain and simple. The fact that they are too cheap to travel with their HD equipment is unacceptable. Now this is very puzzling to me, because FSN announced that all of their channels are going full time HD in January. If that is the case, how can those games not be in HD? I've been quiet on the TV issue until now, but this kind of pushed me over the edge. Somebody screwed up in management, and should probably be fired over it. We didn't even negotiate with any other networks, including MASN who was begging to get in on the action. Now, I'm not saying we should have gone to MASN. I think FSN South is in fact the best place. But if you don't negotiate with anyone else you don't have any bargaining power. To have 17 games untelevised, and NO away games in HD for a team in 2008 that won the Cup 2 years ago... It's bush league. Any flak that comes from the anti-Southern hockey bunch on this is deserved. The problem is not that we got hosed; it's that we got hosed, but could have done better. We didn't even let any other networks make a pitch."

9/9/2008 8:29:12 PM

Quote :

"RALEIGH, N.C. -- For a change, Eric Staal had a pretty tame summer. There were no weddings for the Carolina Hurricanes' All-Star center. No video-game cover shoots or rowdy bachelor parties, either. Eric Staal Staal Instead, he spent the past five months dealing with the lingering disappointment of missing a second straight postseason while also discussing with Carolina's front office a contract extension to keep the young face of the Hurricanes with them for the foreseeable future. General manager Jim Rutherford has said he hoped to have a new deal for his 23-year-old star by the start of training camp next week. And while few details have emerged publicly, Staal said the talks are anything but, well, stalled. "They know I want to be here, they know that I really enjoy the area and love the organization," Staal said Tuesday. "It's just a matter of finding the [common] ground that works. I think we're getting close as we move forward, but it's not something that I am pressing or that's going to bother me when the season starts. It's not. I'll be ready to play as if it was done." Staal is entering his fifth season with the Hurricanes and the final year of a three-year contract he signed in 2006 that will pay him $5 million in 2008-09 before he is eligible for restricted free agency after the season. Both sides expect a long-term deal well before then, and naturally, that would be welcome news for coach Peter Laviolette, who has watched Staal blossom from a first-round draft pick in 2003 into a point-a-game scorer, anchor of his No. 1 line and MVP of last year's All-Star Game. "He's one of the elite players in the game," Laviolette said. "He's young, he's gifted. [Contract talks are] something that happens between management and players, but I don't think anybody would be disappointed to see Eric Staal be here and play out his whole career here." Staal, who had 100 points three seasons ago in leading the Hurricanes to their first Stanley Cup, bounced back from a disappointing-by-his-standards 2006-07 season with 38 goals and 44 assists in 2007-08. That followed a busy summer in which he got married, endured an embarrassing arrest following his noisy bachelor party and was pictured on the cover of the "NHL 08" video game. His performance prompted captain Rod Brind'Amour to proclaim of Staal that, "I don't see any reason he can't be talked about with the Sidney Crosbys and [Evgeni] Malkins when it's all said and done, because he is that good, I think." Still, Staal insisted he didn't spend his offseason thinking about those statistics, but about this one: The two points in the Southeast Division standings that kept Carolina out of the playoffs once again, making the Hurricanes the only team to miss the postseason two straight years after winning the Cup. They frittered away the five-point lead they had with six games left and ended the season by losing three of four to fall behind Washington. "You've got to have that consistency. Last year, it didn't feel like we had a huge lull in games where we were terrible, but it was one too many lulls than you can have," Staal said. "We were a good team last year that missed the playoffs. You want to make sure you start off well, get ahead and then stay up front the whole time. You can't have any lulls the whole time because there are a lot of great teams, a lot of parity in our league, and you get stuck behind the 8-ball and it's tough to get back." A bigger, stronger Staal said he expects to play with a more physical edge this season -- "not lots, but when it's needed," he joked -- and expects to continue to carry the leadership role he assumed last season when, a week after the "A" on his sweater was made permanent, he helped pick up the slack when Brind'Amour went down with a season-ending knee injury on Feb. 14. "We've got a lot of great leaders in our room," Staal said. "Obviously, Rod is the main guy and he's the one everyone falls after. He's got that great work ethic, and he's prepared to play every game. I just want to do the same sort of thing, just kind of follow the same type of footsteps. That's what all players want to do, and you need to have that as a group to be able to be successful." Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press"

http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/news/story?id=3578778

9/10/2008 7:22:46 AM

Quote :

"See the New Alternate Jersey Live on CarolinaHurricanes.com If you can't be at the RBC Center at 12:30 on Wednesday afternoon to see the Hurricanes' new alternate jersey in person, you can catch a live streaming feed of the press conference on CarolinaHurricanes.com. Directions on how to do so will be available on the front page prior to the event."

woot, I'm gonna watch online

9/10/2008 9:05:11 AM

this music is awful

9/10/2008 12:29:24 PM

I think the PC will be streamed over the "CanesVision" thing.

From CarolinaHurricanes.com
"Multimedia" drop down menu
"CanesVision Online" link
"Hurricanes Unveil 3rd Jersey at 12:30!" under the "Misc." header in the middle of the page.

[Edited on September 10, 2008 at 12:29 PM. Reason : and i'm totally jammin out to this kickass music!!]

9/10/2008 12:29:27 PM

Yay John Forslund!

(jesus this sound quality is dreadful)


Pretty slick looking. I like em.

[Edited on September 10, 2008 at 12:35 PM. Reason : gleason has some massive shoulder pads]

9/10/2008 12:32:27 PM