Bizarro game tonight. Canes' power play went 1 for 16, and alternated between horrendous passing and tons of turnovers and beautiful goals. Every Canes goal was a beauty tonight, including another Eric Staal PerfectShot, but FOUR odd-man chances given up WHILE WE'RE ON THE POWER PLAY!!?!?

If every man on that team didn't buy Gerber a drink tonight, I'll be miffed.

[Edited on December 24, 2005 at 1:01 AM. Reason : d]

12/24/2005 1:01:48 AM

16 power plays and one ppg? dear god.

[Edited on December 26, 2005 at 12:01 AM. Reason : -]

12/26/2005 12:00:47 AM

On top of that, the single PP goal was a roofed wrister from Brindy (league leader in PP goals) that wasn't much of a man-advantage type play at all.

12/26/2005 2:39:52 AM

who gives a fuck!? a W is a W, and they've got a 9pt lead on the division w/games in hand

12/26/2005 7:17:59 AM

All I'm sayin' is that each and every man on that team owes Gerber a free dinner for that game.

12/26/2005 2:29:13 PM

this game has had some interesting goals

12/26/2005 8:14:23 PM

the last goal was beast


too bad nobody was there when that puck trickled in front of the net

12/26/2005 8:49:29 PM

and staal gets another +1 for being on the ice. i think hes been on the ice for 3 of our 4

12/26/2005 9:21:09 PM

tampa is getting away with so much holding late in the game here.

12/26/2005 10:00:25 PM

defensive breakdown in OT.

just plain no defense in this OT.

[Edited on December 26, 2005 at 10:02 PM. Reason : -]

12/26/2005 10:02:13 PM

i know they dont like to call penalties real late in the game and in OT, but that one was pretty bad, behind the net there in OT

12/26/2005 10:08:33 PM

^^^^Eric Staal was even on the night. He was on the ice for two of Tampa's even strenght goals and two of the Hurricanes even strength goals. He doesn't get a plus for being on the ice when we score a power play goal.

12/27/2005 11:48:53 PM

Does anyone know if FSN South is going to show any of the WJC games?

12/28/2005 11:58:26 AM

Carolina Hurricanes (23-9-3, 49 pts) at Ottawa Senators (25-6-3, 53 points).
Ottawa 14-3-0 at home
Carolina 9-5-3 on the road

Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. EST.
TV: FSN South
Radio: 102.9 FM

STANDINGS
Carolina - 49 points, 1st place, Southeast Division, 2nd (tie) place, Eastern Conference
Ottawa - 53 points, 1st place, Northeast Division, 1st place, Eastern Conference

LEADERS
GOALS:
Carolina - Eric Staal, 26
Ottawa - Daniel Alfredsson & Dany Heatley, 23
ASSISTS:
Carolina - Eric Staal & Cory Stillman, 25
Ottawa - Jason Spezza, 34
POINTS:
Carolina - Eric Staal, 51
Ottawa - Daniel Alfredsson, 52
GOALTENDING:
Carolina - Martin Gerber, 17-6-2, 2 shutouts, 2.66 GAA
Ottawa - Dominik Hasek, 18-5-2, 3 shutouts, 2.10 GAA

SPECIAL TEAMS RANKINGS
Carolina - 8th in powerplay, 26th in penalty killing
Ottawa - 2nd in powerplay, 4th in penalty killing

SEASON SERIES
Carolina 2-1
Last meeting Ottawa 5, Carolina 3 in Raleigh on November 22

INJURIES
Carolina - Josef Vasicek (knee), Andrew Ladd (knee), Nick Wallin (wrist)
Ottawa - Jason Spezza (chest), Brandon Bochenski (shoulder), Martin Havlat (dislocated right shoulder)


Would be huge if the Canes could win in Ottawa and finish the season 3-1 against them.

12/28/2005 1:39:00 PM

http://caneshockey.com/news/news.asp?articleid=1422

Traded Colin Forbes to Washington for Stephen Peat.

12/28/2005 3:56:55 PM

Another trade!

http://caneshockey.com/news/news.asp?articleid=1423

Krys Kolanos from Phoenix for Pavel Brendl

12/28/2005 5:56:07 PM

brendl will tear it up now

12/28/2005 6:48:47 PM

haha larose

12/28/2005 7:41:53 PM

OH MY GOD

BEST GAME EVER

12/28/2005 7:52:45 PM

hasek has been in beast mode, hopefully gerber can hold up

12/28/2005 7:55:56 PM

being a sabres fan for 4 years, its true that hasek at times can mentally destroy a team. hes beatable. but often it seems as though he is not.

12/28/2005 8:10:24 PM

i knew they would score. they had an amazing period.

12/28/2005 8:14:50 PM

Apparently Hasek has 4 arms and 10 legs

12/28/2005 8:26:25 PM

wait. north carolina has a hockey team?

12/28/2005 8:28:02 PM

these fuckes are playing dirty as shit

12/28/2005 8:45:28 PM

this is bull

12/28/2005 8:54:48 PM

Great move by LaRose, but that old bastard made another great save.

12/28/2005 8:55:50 PM

unbelievable.

12/28/2005 9:05:08 PM

Canes are really trying to prove they cant play with the big boys.

12/28/2005 9:06:05 PM

3-1 ... doable in the third

12/28/2005 9:10:20 PM

more bs

12/28/2005 9:27:42 PM

another bs goal

ok. this is a joke. im done.



[Edited on December 28, 2005 at 9:28 PM. Reason : -]

12/28/2005 9:28:18 PM

Canes made two trades today:

Colin Forbes to Washington/Manitoba for Stephen Peat.

Pavel Brendl to Phoenix for Krys Kolanos.

Peat is a fighter for Lowell. Kolanos has a lot of skill but has bounced around a lot, just like Brendl. However, we know Brendl doesn't want to work to stay here, so some new blood is an excellent thing.

12/29/2005 12:38:09 AM

Philadelphia Flyers (23-8-5, 51 pts) at Carolina Hurricanes (23-10-3, 49 pts)

Philadelphia is 10-3-2 on the road
Carolina is 14-4-0 at home

Thursday, 7:00 PM EST
TV: FSN South
Radio: Y102.9

STANDINGS
Carolina - 49 points, 1st place, Southeast Division, 3rd place, Eastern Conference
Philadelphia - 51 points, 1st place, Atlantic Division, 2nd place, Eastern Conference

TEAM LEADERS
Flyers - Gagne, 26 goals; Peter Forsberg, 39 assists and 51 points; Donald Brashear, 47 PIM. Hurricanes - Staal, 26 goals and 51 points; Cory Stillman, 27 assists; Mike Commodore, 76 PIM.

SPECIAL TEAMS
Flyers - Power play: 18.3 percent (42 for 230), tied for 12th in NHL. Penalty killing: 79.2 percent (171 for 216), 28th. Hurricanes - Power play: 18.4 percent (44 for 239), tied for 9th. Penalty killing: 79.6 percent (164 for 206), 27th.

GOALTENDERS
Flyers - Antero Niittymaki (12-4-3, 1 SO, 2.80 GAA); Jamie Storr (no appearances). Hurricanes - Gerber (17-7-2, 2, 2.79); Cam Ward (6-3-1, 4.02).

SEASON SERIES
Hurricanes, 1-0.

LAST MEETING
Oct. 28; Hurricanes, 8-6. At Raleigh, N.C., Staal had his first career hat trick and former Flyer Rod Brind'Amour had a goal and two assists as Carolina set a single-game high for goals this season.

INJURIES
Carolina - Vasicek (knee), Ladd (knee), Cole (hip)
Philadelphia - Esche (groin), Primeau (concussion), Stevenson (hip), Pitkanen (sports hernia), Desjardins (shoulder)

Big game for the Canes tonight. If they win they will move back into 2nd in the conference, and will avoid a 3 game losing streak. A win would also guarantee at least a .500 record against the Flyers this season.

12/29/2005 12:14:17 PM

I hate the flyers, but Antero Niittymaki is a great name.

12/29/2005 12:18:17 PM

game on FSN tonight

still no score though

CAR power play 1:20 left

8:55 in the 1st period

12/29/2005 7:30:12 PM

god, power play has been crap lately.

[Edited on December 29, 2005 at 8:24 PM. Reason : YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 2 pp goals!]

12/29/2005 8:22:04 PM

post that more often

12/29/2005 8:30:27 PM

CAM WARD !!111!!!1111!!!1

12/29/2005 8:35:12 PM

BMWblonde is getting a lot of TV time tonight

12/29/2005 9:15:23 PM

cam coming up big again



power play was a letdown

12/29/2005 9:28:59 PM

gah, tired of OTL

12/29/2005 9:37:00 PM

team defense around the net falls apart again

12/29/2005 9:37:03 PM

god dammit

12/29/2005 9:37:36 PM

Not Hurricanes related, but this is definitely the hit of the year: http://rapidshare.de/files/10041691/2005.12.28_phi_atl_richards-petrovicky.wmv.html

12/29/2005 10:00:01 PM

We just didn't have our legs the last 10 min of regulation tonight.

The highlight of the game in our section was one of the rink guys bringing a puck to one of the girls in the front row. It had a piece of tape on it that said "#29 REF, meet me at Sullivan's tonight if you're single."
Then he kept eyeing her when he had a chance. No joke.

Nothing like keeping his eyes on the game.

She passed it around and we all had a good laugh at it, plus she seemed elated by the whole thing.

[Edited on December 29, 2005 at 10:18 PM. Reason : .]

12/29/2005 10:17:06 PM

^that's also the same official that got hit in the head w/a puck in the first... so maybe it was a post-concussion attempt

12/29/2005 11:47:21 PM

the canes need a goally

12/30/2005 1:27:36 AM

^ WTF are you talking about, Cam was standing on his head as the defense was crumbling around him. The third one was bad, but he stopped at least five ridiculous chances, and the Forsberg save (and the presence of mind to stayed sealed on the rebound) was fan-fucking-tastic.

12/30/2005 2:22:27 AM

Radim Vrbata traded to Chicago for future considerations:

http://www.carolinahurricanes.com/news/news.asp?articleid=1425

12/30/2005 5:10:38 PM