Five Burning Questions- Episode 1

The first episode of Five Burning Questions is up on YouTube now!  During the season there will be a video every week with five questions about the Hurricanes for that week.  Since this is the off-season the videos will be produced more sparsely.  So here you go and check it out!

Defending the Logo

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It was only about 5 minutes  ago that I was browsing my Facebook news feed when I stumbled up an article by The Hockey News that ranked the Carolina Hurricanes logo as the worst current logo in the NHL.  While I do agree that the Canes do not have the best logo in the league, I do not believe it is the worst logo either.  There are, in my opinion, five other examples that are worse.

A Look Back At Our Predictions

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Last summer Andrew and I made a couple predictions during the summer about how certain players would fare in the season.  The players we wrote about were Elias Lindholm, Anton Khudobin, Mike Komisarek, and Nathan Gerbe.  Being that summer has come back around it is time to see how we did with our picks.

Out with the Old, In with the Familiar

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Well well well... the Canes off-season has been a little bit different this year.  Out with Kirk Muller and in with Bill Peters; out with Jim Rutherford and in with Ron Francis (and so forth).  The Hurricanes are preparing for a new season with a new staff and with high hopes that the team will get out of their playoff drought.  With Peters in the coaching position and Francis at the managing helm it could be a recipe for success...or disaster, but lets not make those end-of-the-season assumptions just yet.

Weekly Report: 10/18

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After only eight games into the regular season the Canes are in a good (not great) spot.  Through eight games the Canes are 3-2-3, and have earned 9 points.  This decent record believe it or not has earned second place in the Metropolitan Division.  The Canes are 3 points back from the Pittsburgh Penguins. That being said hockey season is long and there is much room for improvement.  We must improve as I am sure the teams below us in the division will surely get better.

Opening Weekend Wrap-up

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This past weekend marked the start of the regular season for the Carolina Hurricanes.  There were a lot of questions and concerns heading into this season.  For starters we were curious as to what kind of impression were the 2013-2014 Canes going to leave us with.  Well wait no longer the answer is just a "read more" click away.

Two Former Canes Coaches Fired Early

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In the span of a month two fromer Hurricanes coaches have been given the pink slip and are out of a head coaching job.  Tom Rowe was fired in September as the head coach of the Kontinental Hockey League's Lokomotiv Yaroslavl and Peter Laviolette was fired from his coaching job yesterday after just three games into Philadelphia's season.

Game On!

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Well Caniacs it's the most wonderful time of the year again.  No it's not Christmas, but it is hockey season.  It's time to brush up on our "Let's Go Canes!" chants and find where we hung our jerseys at the end of last season (which unfortunately was some time ago).  That's right, tomorrow night begins the 2013-2014 regular season with our Hurricanes hosting the Red Wings.

Former Canes: How Are They Elsewhere?

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One of the things my friends know about me is that I like to look at things on a global scale and that definitely includes following hockey leagues and teams from other parts of the world such as Sweden, Finland, Russia, and even Australia.  While this is indeed a Hurricanes blog, we will dedicate a portion of our blog towards how former Hurricane players are doing elsewhere in the NHL as well as in other leagues around the world.

The Hardships of Reporting Hockey News in the South

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There's a problem being a hockey fan in the South: the hockey news is extremely lacking.  The News & Observer  has an article once in awhile about the Canes and the Cane's (as well as the NHL's)  website doesn't offer much in news either.  I know the summer as a whole is slow in news, but at least in the northern states and Canada there is a constant flow of hockey news to satisfy even the regular hockey fan.