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• Hurricanes Can Be Aggressive This Offseason With Trade for Sabres’ Peterka & Thompson
It’s been well documented that the Carolina Hurricanes are poised to be aggressive this upcoming 2025 offseason with $28.4 million in cap space. They also have 21 draft picks over…...2025
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If you were excited about the marketing that could be done for the ECHL's newest team, things are starting to really get started as the Greensboro Gargoyles have been busy over the last month. We still don't know who the first player will be that will wear the Gargoyles uniform, but we do have a schedule for the team for the 2025-26 ECHL season and we now know who will be coaching the Gargoyles as...2025
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• 3 Hurricanes Draft Targets With Their First-Round Pick
With the Carolina Hurricanes’ offseason now fully in effect, over the next few months leading up to the 2025-26 NHL season, I will be covering the 2025 NHL Draft, free…...2025
• Appreciating Former Ranger Jesper Fast
Jesper Fast announced his retirement after spending seven seasons with the New York Rangers and four seasons with the Carolina Hurricanes. The winger was a sixth-round pick but developed into…...2025
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• ‘That’s Not Going To Happen Again’ – Rod Brind’Amour Pushes Back on Paul Maurice
Carolina Hurricanes head coach Rod Brind'Amour and Florida Panthers head coach Paul Maurice have been debating the NHL's handshake protocol....2025
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• 3 Hurricanes Draft Targets if They Trade Back to the 2nd Round
We’re 17 days away from the 2025 NHL Entry Draft, which is scheduled for June 27 and 28 in Los Angeles, CA. The Carolina Hurricanes again have a pick in…...2025
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• Canes' Fast (neck) retires after missing season
Carolina Hurricanes forward Jesper Fast is retiring after missing this season with a neck injury sustained in the 2023-24 regular-season finale....2025
• Carolina Hurricanes forward Jesper Fast retires after missing season with neck injury

Carolina Hurricanes forward Jesper Fast is retiring after missing this season with a neck injury sustained in the 2023-24 regular-season finale....2025
• Hurricanes' Chatfield, Walker and Jarvis have no surgery plans for injuries after playoff run

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Carolina Hurricanes players Jalen Chatfield, Sean Walker and Seth Jarvis said Friday they don't plan to have surgery for injuries after the team's playoff run to the Eastern Conference final....2025
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• Recap: Panthers rally to advance to third straight Stanley Cup Final

Photo by Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images The Hurricanes fought for their lives, but the Panthers chewed them up one last time to end their season in Game 5. The third time was the charm. Carter Verhaeghe scored the go-ahead goal off a feed from Aleksander Barkov with 7:39 left, and the reigning champion Florida Panthers advanced to their third straight Stanley Cup Final, defeating the Caroli...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for May 29, 2025

Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images Back in the win column. Noah Cameron has had a historic start to his career: In four starts, Cameron has posted a 1.05 ERA. He hasn’t allowed more than one run in any of his four starts. He has gone at least 6 1/3 innings in each of them, too. That makes Cameron just the second pitcher since 1893 with 6 1/3-plus innings and one run or less in his first f...2025
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• Recap: Canes shut out Panthers to stave off elimination, end 15-game ECF losing streak

Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images It’s finally over, but there’s still three more games to win for the Hurricanes. The Carolina Hurricanes have finally won an Eastern Conference Final game. The triumph ended the Hurricanes' 15-game Eastern Conference Final losing streak, which dated back to 2009. Carolina's last win in the ECF came on June 1, 2006, in Game 7 against the Buffalo Sabres wh...2025
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• Recap: Panthers rout Canes 6-2 to move one win away from third straight Stanley Cup final berth

Photo by Jaylynn Nash/Getty Images The Canes are one loss away from their 16th consecutive defeat in the Eastern Conference Final. Throw in the towel. Rout city. The Florida Panthers crushed the Carolina Hurricanes 6-2 in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Finals Saturday night at Amerant Bank Arena to move one win away from their third straight Stanley Cup Final berth. On the other end of ...2025
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• NHL 25: Panthers one win away from Stanley Cup Final berth, sweep of Canes

James Guillory-Imagn Images The Canes continue to get outclassed. The Florida Panthers will push the Carolina Hurricanes to the brink of elimination Saturday night on home ice. According to NHL 25, the reigning Stanley Cup Champions will have another easy night in the office. The simulation predicts Florida will win 4-1 over the Canes. Matthew Tkachuk scored twice for the Panthers. Carter ...2025
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• Panthers' Reinhart exits G2 vs. Canes with injury
- Florida forward Sam Reinhart left the Panthers' Eastern Conference final game against the Carolina Hurricanes on Thursday night with a lower-body injury and won't return....2025
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• Xavier Legette went to his first NHL game, and the video is exactly as delightful as you’d imagine

This is so pure and good. You don’t exactly get a lot of opportunities to see NHL hockey when you grow up in Mullins, South Carolina (population 3,885) — but Xavier Legette had a chance to be front-and-center now that he’s in the NFL The Carolina Panthers’ receiver was on the glass for Game 5 between the Florida Panthers and Carolina Hurricanes. Not only that. but he was mic’d up to for the experi...2025
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• Guest Post: Family, Loss, and Hockey
Editor’s Note: former Cannon writer and longtime commenter Dan Flashes reached out to ask if he could share a piece he wrote about his family and the 2024-25 season. This is something different than we usually do here but I think you’ll appreciate it. In case you haven’t noticed (“And judging by the attendance, you haven’t,” —Harry Doyle), I haven’t been commenting here for a bit. ...2025
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• Opinion: Rantanen trade blew up in our faces, fire Bednar and MacFarland

Isaiah J. Downing-Imagn Images It’s just a business after all, right? This organization needs a fresh start, and it starts by breaking a few hearts. It starts with GM Chris MacFarland. When he makes the right moves on the battlefield, MacFarland comes off as a genius, but like most of your friends were while playing Call of Duty Zombies, the quick trigger finger would come back to bite th...2025
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• A city guide to Raleigh if you are visiting for March Madness

Photo by Katherine Frey/The Washington Post via Getty Images Raleigh is hosting the first and second rounds of the 2025 men’s NCAA tournament. There’s nowhere in the world quite like Raleigh when it comes to college basketball. The capital of North Carolina, part of the tobacco road rivalry, and an exploding cosmopolitan city — there’s a little bit of everything for Raleigh will open its d...2025
• One of the NHL’s most-intimidating players begged a stranger to pick up 100 burgers from McDonald’s

Photo by Michael Mooney/NHLI via Getty Images Absolute legend. Sometimes being an NHL veteran is about more than displaying leadership on the ice or in the locker room. Sometimes it’s about walking in the freezing cold to pick up food for the team, needing to borrow a stranger’s car, and coming back with 100 cheeseburgers to be the hero everyone needs. That’s precisely what happened with B...2024
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"Photo: @Capitals The Washington Capitals downed the Carolina Hurricanes, 5-4 (SO) Thursday night at Capital One Arena."

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"Photo: @Capitals/X The Washington Capitals defeated the Carolina Hurricanes by a score of 7-6 in a shootout Friday at Capital One Arena."

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"Quinnipiac sophomore goaltender Yaniv Perets has signed an NHL contract with the Carolina Hurricanes."

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"BOSTON — The Boston Bruins earned a much-needed win in Game 3 of their best-of-seven series against the Carolina Hurricanes 4-2 on Friday at TD Garden."

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"After signing a surprising offer sheet in restricted free agency -- and an eventual contract -- with the Carolina Hurricanes in August, Jesperi Kotkaniemi will meet his former team, the Montreal Canadiens, on Thursday."

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"Dave Ayres, a 42-year-old who drives the Zamboni for the Toronto Maple Leafs' AHL affiliate, stepped in as the emergency goalie for the Carolina Hurricanes Saturday night, stopping eight of 10 shots to help Carolina to a 6-3 win."

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"Twice this season the Carolina Hurricanes sophomore scorer has pulled off the move that no one had before at the NHL level."

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"He threw on a Patrice Bergeron jersey and headed over the TD Garden to watch the Bruins take on the Carolina Hurricanes."

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"Defenseman Dmitry Orlov scored twice and the Washington Capitals kept the offense rolling to beat the Carolina Hurricanes 6-1 and extend their point streak to 14 games "

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"- Centre Victor Rask and the Carolina Hurricanes have agreed to a six-year contract worth $24 million."

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"DETROIT – The Red Wings dealt Erik Cole a healthy helping of heartache in 2002 eliminating the rookie forward and the Carolina Hurricanes in the Stanley Cup finals."

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"San Jose Sharks rookie goalie Troy Grosenick made his NHL debut against the Carolina Hurricanes on Sunday."

• Hurricanes Can Be Aggressive This Offseason With Trade for Sabres’ Peterka & Thompson
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• NHL Rumors: Carolina Hurricanes, and the St. Louis Blues

The Carolina Hurricanes plan on spending close to the salary cap. The St. Louis Blues have some cap space to work with, but Sam Bennett may cost too much....2025
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• NHL Rumors: Carolina Hurricanes, and the St. Louis Blues

The Carolina Hurricanes plan on spending close to the salary cap. The St. Louis Blues have some cap space to work with, but Sam Bennett may cost too much....2025
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• Mile High Pollster: Fans say the Avalanche likely can’t and won’t trade for Bo Byram

Photo by Ashley Potts/NHLI via Getty Images Bo Byram has earned himself a payday but it probably won’t come from Colorado. It's time for another Mile High Hockey pollster as we dive into some offseason topics and take a look at what's left of the conference finals between Edmonton, Dallas, Florida, and Carolina. We will also discuss the likelihood (or unlikelihood) of the Avalanche returni...2025
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• Hurricanes' Game 2 loss to Panthers offers an unwelcome repeat of conference-final history from '23

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The frustration bubbled over late in the second period, after the Carolina Hurricanes' latest rush failed to get off even a shot as they trailed big against the defending Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers....2025
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• Panthers' roster adds have been 'as advertised'
Forward Brad Marchand and defenseman Seth Jones, two of the marquee names at this year's trade deadline, have been front and center as the Florida Panthers have stormed back into the Eastern Conference finals, where they will meet the Carolina Hurricanes....2025
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• NHL Playoff predictions for Panthers vs. Hurricanes and Oilers vs. Stars

Photo by Randy Litzinger/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Here are our predictions for the Stanley Cup Conference Finals. The 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs have been staggeringly good, and now we’re down to the final four. Dreams of a Canadian team finally winning the cup took a massive hit in the second round with both the Jets and Leafs falling, leaving everything to the Edmonton Oilers, who...2025
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• Friday Question: Which athlete do you hate the most?

Time to be a big old bunch of haters. In a perfect world there’d be no hate. I don’t know if John Lennon said that, or Elmo from Sesame Street. Obviously we all should aspire to hate less and love more, but when it comes to sports that’s not an option. Naturally there are athletes we just grow to hate with a red-hot passion. People who get our blood boiling every single time they set food on the f...2025
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• Summer Concert Nights - Part One

With the warmer weather upon most of us in the Great White North, there will be a rise in the number of concerts that happen outdoors at various venues across Canada. I suspect that a number of you who stop by this blog will take in a performance or two when it comes to those summer concerts, so HBIC decided to save all its best performers in hockey jerseys for this occasion! Being that I'm not a ...2025
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• Recap: Panthers rally to advance to third straight Stanley Cup Final
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• Mile High Pollster: Fans say the Avalanche likely can’t and won’t trade for Bo Byram
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• Recap: Panthers rout Canes 6-2 to move one win away from third straight Stanley Cup final berth
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• NHL 25: Panthers take 2-0 series lead with 7-4 win over Canes

Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images Four players each scored three points for the Panthers. The Florida Panthers will take a 2-0 series lead over the Carolina Hurricanes in the Eastern Conference Final. According to NHL 25, the Panthers will dominate a majority of the game and overcome a few shaky moments to defeat the Canes 7-4. Sam Reinhart, Carter Verhaeghe, Alexander Barkov, and Sam Be...2025
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• Recap: Panthers dominate Canes in Game 1, win 5-2

Photo by Jaylynn Nash/Getty Images The Canes had 13 more shots on net, but the Panthers made them pay for every mistake. A rematch of the 2023 Eastern Conference Finals started off just how they left off — a Florida Panthers victory. Florida, two days removed from eliminating the Toronto Maple Leafs in their second-round series, dissected the Carolina Hurricanes in a 5-2 win in Game 1 of t...2025
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• Rd2 Gm6 Preview: Winnipeg @ Dallas
The Winnipeg Jets will be hoping to copy their Canadian counterparts today after watching the Toronto Maple Leafs pick up a road win against the Florida Panthers to force a Game 7 in their series. The True Northers need to do the same thing tonight against the Dallas Stars if they hope to extend their playoffs, something made all the more difficult due to the fact that the Jets have yet to pick up...2025
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• NHL 25: Panthers take 2-0 series lead with 7-4 win over Canes
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• The Carolina Hurricanes keep leaning on their penalty kill in another deep postseason push

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — There's a moment of frustrated dread for any hockey team that comes with an official raising an arm to call a penalty triggering a power play....2025
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• Goals by Svechnikov, Roslovic jolt the Hurricanes in Game 3 playoff win against the Capitals

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Andrei Svechnikov gave the Carolina Hurricanes their breakthrough moment to continue his strong postseason, while Jack Roslovic offered his own stay-ready moment after recently being a healthy scratch....2025
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• MHH Roundtable: Reactions to another early exit

Photo by Andy Cross/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images Picking up the pieces after yet another Game 7 loss. After a stunning loss in Game 7 to the Dallas Stars, it’s an abrupt end to the season for the Colorado Avalanche. We will have a whole offseason to dissect what went wrong and where the team goes from here but these are our initial reactions. Who was your round one M...2025
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• Opinion: Rantanen trade blew up in our faces, fire Bednar and MacFarland
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• Zamboni driver saves the day in goal for Carolina
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• Hurricanes reach 2-way deals with 4 restricted free agents
RALEIGH, N.C. - The Carolina Hurricanes have agreed to terms with four of their restricted free agents to one-year, two-way contracts. General manager Ron Francis on Thursday announced the deals with forwards Brendan Woods and Brody Sutter an......2016
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• Hurricanes, Victor Rask agree to 6-year, $24 million deal
RALEIGH, N.C. - Centre Victor Rask and the Carolina Hurricanes have agreed to a six-year contract worth $24 million. General manager Ron Francis said Tuesday the deal will pay Rask $4 million per year through 2021-22. Rask was a restricted fr......2016
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• Carolina Hurricanes ink entry deals with 1st-round picks
RALEIGH, N.C. - The Carolina Hurricanes have signed first-round draft picks Jake Bean and Julien Gauthier to three-year entry-level contracts. The Hurricanes announced both deals Saturday. They chose Bean, a defenceman, with the 13th overall ......2016
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• Hurricanes open free agency by giving Stalberg 1-year deal
RALEIGH, N.C. - The Carolina Hurricanes have signed forward Viktor Stalberg to a one-year contract worth $1.5 million. General manager Ron Francis announced the Swede's signing Friday, about 90 minutes after the NHL's free agency period start......2016
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• Hurricanes buy out final year of D Wisniewski's deal
RALEIGH, N.C. - The Carolina Hurricanes have bought out the final year of veteran defenceman James Wisniewski's contract. General manager Ron Francis announced the move Thursday. The 32-year-old Wisniewski was to make $3 million this comin......2016
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• Carolina Hurricanes agree to 3-year deal with prospect Aho
RALEIGH, N.C. - The Carolina Hurricanes have agreed to a three-year entry-level contract with forward Sebastian Aho. The team announced the terms Monday. The deal will pay the 18-year-old $832,500 at the NHL level or $70,000 in the American H......2016
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• Hurricanes hire Samuelsson to coach AHL team in Charlotte
RALEIGH, N.C. - The Carolina Hurricanes have hired veteran NHL defenceman Ulf Samuelsson to coach their AHL affiliate in Charlotte. General manager Ron Francis announced Samuelsson's hiring Monday. The 52-year-old Samuelsson and Francis we......2016
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• 3 Hurricanes Draft Targets if They Trade Back to the 2nd Round
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• New Jersey Devils’ 2025-26 Roster Projections 1.0: Looking for Success
The New Jersey Devils went 42-33-7 in the regular season and were dealt a harsh first-round exit from the playoffs at the hands of the Carolina Hurricanes. While they won’t…...2025
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• New Jersey Devils’ 2024-25 Report Cards: Tomas Tatar
The 2024-25 season ended for the New Jersey Devils after their first-round exit in the playoffs at the hands of the Carolina Hurricanes. The Devils made a decent playoff push,…...2025
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• Hurricanes' Brind'Amour plans return to handshake lines after coaches sat out in Eastern final

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Carolina Hurricanes coach Rod Brind’Amour plans to return to the handshake line between teams at the conclusion of a playoff series, coming after Florida Panthers coach Paul Maurice convinced Brind’Amour the coaches should sit out after…...2025
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• Oilers vs Panthers is a Rematch Sure to Deliver
If the conference final matchups were anticlimactic, at least they set us up for an exciting Stanley Cup Final. The Florida Panthers took care of the Carolina Hurricanes in five…...2025
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• Hurricanes' Chatfield, Walker and Jarvis have no surgery plans for injuries after playoff run
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• AEW Dynamite (5/28) Draws 636,000 VIewers On Cable TV Against Thunder vs. Wolves, Panthers vs. Hurricanes
Viewership and ratings information for the May 28th episode of AEW Dynamite. Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer reports that AEW Dynamite on May 28th drew 636,000 viewers on TBS. This number is up from the 575,000 viewers the show drew on May 21st. Wednesday's episode scored a 0.16 rating in the 18 to 49 demographic, up from the 0.15 demo rating last Wednesday. AEW Dynamite was opposed by t...2025
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• Recap: Panthers rally to advance to third straight Stanley Cup Final
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• NHL Playoffs contenders and pretenders for 2025 Stanley Cup

Getty Images Which teams are showing up, and who needs to show us more? The first round of the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs is still underway with us having just over a week of games in the books. The first chance for series to be wrapped up is on Tuesday, with Toronto and Carolina having the opportunity to shut the door and move on. Playoff hockey and the regular season are entirely different...2025
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• Star Russian rookie arrives in stunning move to shake up 2025 NHL Playoffs

Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images Alexander Nikishin is the real deal, and he’s playoff ready. The Hurricanes simply ran out of time at the NHL trade deadline. The organization was too preoccupied with shipping off Mikko Rantanen that it left little room for the Canes to add talent for a playoff push. As it stood Carolina was a very good team entering the playoffs, but lacked the spark n...2025
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• Should the Calgary Flames trade for Mikko Rantanen or stay the course?

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• Trevor Connelly’s Future with Golden Knights Could Be in Play at Trade Deadline
Trade deadline season has already begun with the shocking trades between teams making blockbuster swings left and right. Whether it be Mikko Rantanen heading east to the Carolina Hurricanes or…...2025
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• Avalanche score second straight shutout with 2-0 victory over Flyers

Ron Chenoy-Imagn Images The defense was solid and Mackenzie Blackwood was incredible once again. Two straight games and two straight goose eggs for the opposition. Following a topsy-turvy month of January coupled by the shocking trade of Mikko Rantanen to the Carolina Hurricanes, the Colorado Avalanche are back on a roll. After getting outmuscled and outwitted in the opening period, the Av...2025
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• Why the Florida Panthers should be America’s Team in the NHL Playoffs
Dan Hamilton-USA TODAY Sports The Florida Panthers’ grit and resilience make them the fan favorite in the NHL playoffs As we get down to the final four teams left in the NHL playoffs, one thing is true: we’re in for a vey different and very fun conference final. The Dallas Stars face off against the Vegas Golden Knights in the Western Conference, and in the Eastern Conference, the Carolina...2023
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• Canadiens Won by Losing Kotkaniemi
It’s been nearly 18 months since Jesperi Kotkaniemi chose to sign an offer sheet with the Carolina Hurricanes. Since then, there has been speculation as to why he would choose…...2022
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