The Carolina Hurricanes (5-4-3) are only three points out of first place in the NHL Southeast Division and are in the midst of playing 10 out of 15 of their games during the month of November at the RBC Center in Raleigh, N.C.
If you get a chance, buy at ticket and cheer them on - great packages are available. If you're cheering on their competition, have fun just the same - the more the merrier!!
That is how great rivalries are created (Buffalo Sabres fans - hint, hint)
Sure, the college football is entering its final stretch and college basketball along Tobacco is starting up, but you always can find time to watch the hottest game on ice.
The fast and grinding style that the Hurricanes have taken to playing this season will not disappoint when watching the team play live.
The
Carolina Hurricanes are prepared to take on the division-leading
Washington Capitals who come to Raleigh on Friday night as the two teams
will clash for the second time this season, and for the first time at
the RBC...
The
Carolina Hurricanes minimized the scoring power of the visiting Tampa
Bay Lightning in a 4-2 win at the RBC Center in Raleigh, N.C. on Tuesday
night.The Hurricanes were led by Jeff Skinner and Chad LaRose who...
The
Carolina Hurricanes are coming off back-to-back games played over the
weekend – a 3-0 win at home against the Chicago Blackhawks and a 5-1
loss on the road against Philadelphia.The star of the game...
Cam
Ward made 30 saves and led the Carolina Hurricanes to a 3-0 win over
the Chicago Blackhawks at the RBC Center on Friday night.After the
morning skate, the Blackhawks’ top scorer, Patrick Sharp, referred to
Ward...
Beginning the season at 0-2-1 was not what the team expected after trying to work the kinks out on the heels of finishing 1-5 during the preseason.
With the situation looking bleak as the defending Stanley Cup champion Boston Bruins were coming down South, the Hurricanes put together their first full 60-minute effort to win the game 3-2 at the RBC Center.
The win was the tonic needed to boost the team's confidence after all of the hard work it had been putting in to make a number of changes since training camp began, including carrying 9 defensemen.
For rookie defenseman Ryan Murphy, the full NHL experience was completed as he was assigned to his junior team, the Kitchener Rangers, as the 'numbers game' finally caught up to him and sitting upstairs was not doing him any good.
With the NC State Fair in operation, the Hurricanes began a four-game road trip by traveling to Buffalo on Friday and put together another hard-fought victory to beat the undefeated Sabres 4-3 in their own building - the First Niagara Center while coach Paul Maurice coached his 900th game with the organization.
Jeff Skinner scored the winning goal on a cross-ice feed from Jussi Jokinen and Joni Pitkanen.
Last season's Rookie of the Year has started the season with six points (2g, 4a) in five games.
No worries of a sophomore slump at this point.
The Hurricanes return home and prepare to travel to Beantown on Tuesday to battle the Bruins once again who will be looking to avenge their loss earlier in the week.
Carolina
Hurricanes head coach Paul Maurice reached a significant milestone as a
National Hockey League (NHL) coach as his team beat the Buffalo Sabres
4-3 at the First Niagara Center in Buffalo, N.Y. on Friday night.Maurice
coached...
Following
the Carolina Hurricanes' 3-2 victory over the defending champion Boston
Bruins on Wednesday night, the Twitterverse received a message about
the immediate future of defenseman Ryan Murphy directly from the rookie
himself :"Had a great run...
In
what could have been described as an epic battle of gladiators in the
coliseum, the Carolina Hurricanes earned a hard-fought and well-deserved
3-2 win over the defending Stanley Cup champion Boston Bruins at the
RBC Center...
The
Big Bad Boston Bruins are coming to Raleigh, N.C. on Wednesday night.As
defending Stanley Cup champions, the Bruins are coming to the RBC
Center to face the Carolina Hurricanes with the national spotlight in
tow. Versus...
The
Carolina Hurricanes lost their home opener 5-1 to the Tampa Bay
Lightning in front of a sellout crowd at the RBC Center on Friday
night.With barely any time to mull over the loss, they packed their
bags...
The Carolina Hurricanes began conditioning camp for its newest group of prospects on Sunday. A crowd numbering between 100-150 were on-hand to welcome the team's newest prospects to Raleigh and to the life of being in the NHL in Carolina. Though they didn't expect it, the young guys now know that Caniacs look forward to another exciting season of hockey with heightened expectations as a result of the draft and moves made during Free Agent Frenzy.
With barely three weeks passing since the 2011 NHL Entry Draft, the Carolina Hurricanes introduced their newest group of prospects to the rigors of the NHL life as the on-ice portion of conditining camp began for these young and...
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The Carolina Hurricanes continued to retool their lineup during the off-season on Tuesday with the signing of free agent defenseman Tomas Kaberle, recent Stanley Cup winner with the Boston Bruins. President and General Manager Jim Rutherford announced that the...
During a scorching Independence Day holiday weekend, the Triangle area was hot with activity amongst its professional sports entities.Railhawks blazing a trail To say the Carolina Railhawks are hot is an understatement as their 12-1-1 record shows...
The Carolina Hurricanes' worst fear became a reality after the first day of free agency as veteran forward Erik Cole accepted a four-year deal worth $18 million to play in 'la belle province' with the Montreal...
As the July 1 deadline for signing free agents approaches in the NHL, Carolina Hurricanes President and General Manager Jim Rutherford announced on Monday the re-signing of free agents Joni Pitkanen and Pat Dwyer to multi-year contracts....
The image of former Wolfpack star Lorenzo Charles dunking the final basket that secured the NC State Wolfpack's final accomplishment in its run to winning the 1983 NCAA championship under legendary coach Jim Valvano is being relived, rebroadcast...
The Carolina Hurricanes selected top prospect defenseman Ryan Murphy from the Kitchener Rangers with the twelfth overall pick during the first round of the 2011 NHL Entry Draft that took place at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, MN...
Just as Vancouver Canucks fans were ready to celebrate a four-game sweep of the Boston Bruins and the first-ever Stanley Cup win for the franchise in three tries (1982, 1994, 2010), the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals took a sharp turn in the other direction. After losing two closely-played games in Vancouver, 1-0 and 3-2 (OT) respectively, the Bruins put a 'world of hurt' on Vancouver and goaltender Roberto Luongo particularly after Nathan Horton was laid out by Vancouver's Aaron Rome. Boston lit Luongo up for a decisive 8-1 win in game three while goaltender Tim Thomas built a mound of snow on the goal line in a 4-0 shutout win to tie the series at two games apiece.
Once again fans in both Vancouver and Boston braced themselves for game five in which a win would provide the edge to the victorious team in sitting only one game away from claiming Lord Stanley's 'Holy Grail'. Luongo met the challenge head-on in Vancouver as the Bruins could not put the rubber past him and the Canucks regained the series lead 3-2 with a 1-0 win. Heading back to Beantown, the home-ice advantage belonged to the Bruins, hoping for the series trend to continue - that the home team wins.
Game 6 sets the stage for big finish
It didn't take the Bruins long as they scored not one, not two, not three, but four goals in a span of just over four minutes during the first 10 minutes of play to take a 4-0 lead early on in game six. The scoring barrage forced Canucks coach Alain Vigneault to pull Luongo from the net after three goals scored against as he was replaced by Cory Schneider who was beat just as quickly for a goal before settling into the game. Behind the spectacular play of Thomas, Boston maintained the four goal advantage over the Canucks until the first minute of play in the third period when Henrik Sedin managed to get one past Thomas on the power play to narrow the Bruins lead to 4-1.
The Bruins took advantage of their own power play opportunity at the 13-minute mark on a goal by David Krejci to reestablish a four-goal lead 5-1. One last goal by Vancouver's Maxim Lapierre near the end of the game left the final result at 5-2 for the Bruins. A thorough job was completed by Boston all the way around and led by Tim Thomas, the favored candidate for the Conn Smythe trophy whether he wins or loses in game seven.
As may be fitting, the final game of the NHL season will take place in Vancouver and provide the opportunity for fans there to celebrate a Stanley Cup victory as the trend of the home team winning in its home rink is back on the Canucks side. However, as wild as the ride has been so far, don't expect game seven to not bring out every emotion and ounce of energy out of all watching and expect the Bruins to play hard to earn their first Cup since 1972. The final result will be a win for the NHL and the sport one way or the other.
Take it all in stride win or lose
However, an emphatic note and plea to Vancouver fans and hockey supporters taking in game seven live - do not repeat what happened in 1994:
The moment to reveal Lord Stanley's gift to a great sport will finally arrive with all its glory and history on Wednesday and the journey along the way will finally end for the season. Celebrate the game and the sport for what it has provided everyone - a great ride. Do it right and don't tarnish the Cup or its legacy.
After four consecutive days of excessive heat at the TPC Wakefield Plantation course in Raleigh, NC, Nationwide Tour veteran Kyle Thompson ingited the crowd one last time on the final hole with a six-foot birdie putt and captured his...
The Carolina Hurricanes will have a different look behind the bench next season as they added seasoned coach and former NHL defenseman Dave Lewis and another of the team's legends, recently retired Rod Brind'Amour, to work...
PGA tour pro and UNC Tar Heels golf alumnus, Mark Wilson, finished tied for seventh with other local notables Webb Simpson (Wake Forest) and Kevin Streelman (Duke) at the Memorial Tournament played at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, OH...
During the hottest time of the year, an ice rink is usually the 'coolest' place to go for those on and off the ice especially with an NHL team and its players using it.The RecZone, a rink...
In the wake of Monday's news reports that the Ohio State University's football coach, Jim Tressel, resigned due to the current NCAA investigation of the football program he led and new reports that he had lied...
The Memorial Day weekend is upon us and with it comes a bevy of playoff action, particularly from the cool ice in NHL hockey to the heat of competition in UEFA Champions League soccer and NCAA lacrosse.
NHL's Vancouver Canucks await Boston Bruins/Tampa Bay Lightning winner
The Boston Bruins and Tampa Bay Lighting face-off on Friday night in game seven of the NHL's Eastern Conference final to determine which team will compete against the Vancouver Canucks for the Stanley Cup, hockey's 'holy grail'. The Stanley Cup Finals will begin on Wed. June 1 in a best-of-seven series that could finish as early as June 8 and no later than June 15 when a new champion will be declared. As the summer heat is upon us, and with the end of the NHL season approaching, hockey fans can find comfort in knowing that that training camp will begin only two months later.
From the Champions League final to Wake Med Soccer Park
Both men's and women's lacrosse championship tournaments will finish by end of the weekend and are expected to have great attendance and exposure as all games will be available online and/or on television for fans worldwide to tune in.
The 2011 NCAA Women's Lacrosse Championship Final Four takes place at LaValle Stadium in Stony Brook, NY as the defending champions, the Maryland Terrapins, are joined by the Duke Blue Devils, the Northwestern Wildcats, and the North Carolina Tar Heels. The women's tournament begins on Friday and a champion will be crowned on Sunday.
The 2011 NCAA Men' Lacrosse Championship highlights the talents of the defending champions, the Duke Blue Devils along with the Maryland Terrapins, the Virginia Cavaliers and the Denver Pioneers in this year's Final Four that will take place at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, MD on Saturday and Monday.
The NFL season has come to an end with the Green Bay Packers winning their first Super Bowl since 1997 and their fourth overall by beating the Pittsburgh Steelers 31-25 in Super Bowl XLV in front of the largest crowd ever at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, TX on Sunday. With action on the gridiron completed, arena sports will reign supreme as both the NHL and NBA are headed into their final 30 games, give or take a few per team, as both leagues will provide for an interesting run to the playoffs heading into mid-April.
However, before that time comes, the all-encompassing and riveting set of post-season college basketball games known as March Madness will capture everyone's attention to watch who will become the 2011 NCAA Men's Basketball champion.
The year has already gotten off to a great start, but in case you missed some of the action, the Triangle Sports Roundup will help bridge the gap:
The Philadelphia Flyers have their work cut out for them if they want to have any chance to drink from Lord Stanley's coveted silver chalice any time soon. Trailing the Chicago Blackhawks 3-2 in the Stanley Cup Final series, the Flyers need to improve upon their inconsistent performance in their recent 7-4 loss on Sunday. Giving up seven goals in a Stanley Cup Final series game is not exactly playing to the level of a champion.
Are they capable of pulling it off? Absolutely. However, coach Peter Laviolette must convince goaltender Michael Leighton to relax and make the first save and then emphasize to his defense to help out their goaltender in cleaning up rebounds and to push the puck forward. Though they trailed 5-2 at one point in Game 5, the Flyers still managed to score a few more to make it interesting. They possess the ability to score, but not if they are on defense all night.
Look for the Flyers to win Game 6 and extend this series to a seventh and deciding game to be played in Chicago. Hockey fans will be in for a treat and will watch the Stanley Cup awarded to the last team standing in this epic battle of young superstars and role players. At the end of it all, the NHL and its players will have made a tremendous mark on the sporting landscape with such a dramatic and exciting finish to the season that will have fans coming back for more.
