After taking the first game of a back-to-back, home-and-home series with the Columbus Blue Jackets, the Hurricanes will look for the sweep tonight in the return leg at the RBC Center.
After several games of moving different players in and out of the lineup at different times, Hurricanes Head Coach Peter Laviolette has said he will use this game, the last of this year's exhibition schedule, to put his first team together for the first time.
That means the end of camp for defensive prospects Casey Borer and Brett Carson, who were assigned to the Albany River Rats of the AHL Friday afternoon.
After a summer longer than anyone had hoped for and the rigors of the training camp that followed, it’s finally time to drop the puck on the 2007-08 season.
The Montreal Canadiens are in town to help the Hurricanes open their 10th Anniversary Season on home ice (7 p.m., NHL Center Ice, Hurricanes Radio Network, Tickets). Carolina, healthy and fresh off a successful training camp and preseason, can feel good about where they stand prior to the opening faceoff.
This year’s exhibition record of 4-1-1 represents the best in the team’s 10-year history in terms of winning percentage. But wins picked up before the season don’t matter…or do they?
A win didn’t come on opening night in front of a large crowd helping get the 10th anniversary season kick-started for the Carolina Hurricanes. But one major positive did surface from a 3-2 overtime loss to the Montreal Canadiens on Wednesday night.
Bret Hedican, a major question mark three months because of a rash of career threatening injuries, tied the game up with 7:12 left in his return to the ice and played more than solid on defense to start his 16th NHL season.
The Hurricanes will go into Friday night’s home game against the Pittsburgh Penguins still looking for their first win after dropping their opening game to Montreal two days earlier.
The Canadiens skated away 3-2 winners in overtime that night, thanks to captain Saku Koivu’s second goal of the game on the power play just over a minute into the extra frame.
He and Cole have been awesome this year. The team looks dangerous once again, and I'm wondering how deep they'll go this year (after they make the playoffs).
__________________ "It's not the way it's going to be. We have to be very, very patient and build this the right way. We have to go through a process. It may be painful. I hope it isn't. But we're prepared for all the bumps and pratfalls and potholes in the road ahead. I'm prepared for it anyway, or I wouldn't have come." - Ron Wilson, Head Coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs.
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