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.

Metropolitan Division: Sounds Like Fun

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The Carolina Hurricanes open up the 2013 season in the same league and same conference, but in a different division.  With the new realignment plan the teams are now split into 2 conferences(East and West) and 2 divisions within each conference.  The realignment has moved Detroit and Columbus to the Eastern Conference and Winnipeg to the Western Conference.  The reasoning behind this is obviously so teams can play others in their time zone.  Above is a map of the new realignment to help illustrate this change.