It's August 3rd. Evander Kane doesn't have a job. He's 35, he's a UFA off a four-year, twenty-and-a-half million dollar deal, and the talk now is a PTO. A tryout. Show up to camp on a handshake and
If you haven't been following it, the Red Wings are having one of the worst offseasons a franchise can have. Dylan Larkin, their captain, requested a trade on June 4. He gave Yzerman a list of three teams he'd accept, Minnesota, Vegas and Florida, and he
Alexander Nikishin is reportedly asking for eight million a year. He's played one NHL season. The number would make him the third-highest-paid guy on a Stanley Cup team, ahead of Slavin, ahead of Jarvis, behind only Aho and Ehlers. If that feels familiar, it should. This
On October 5, the Florida Panthers put a 27-year-old goalie on waivers. Every team in the league could have had him for nothing. Thirty of them passed. Carolina claimed him. Eight months later he shut out Vegas in Game 6 to win the Stanley Cup. The stat Bussi
The Cup's won. Twenty years of waiting, over. Great! Besides another cup, what else am I excited about this core accomplishing? I've been kicking this around since June and I think I landed on it: I want to watch Sebastian Aho climb the franchise scoring list
Two Staal graphics went around Canes Twitter this week. One lists his career line — 318 goals, 747 points, 1,403 games, two Cups, the Conn Smythe. The other has him as the oldest Conn Smythe winner ever at 37 years, 277 days, ahead of Tim Thomas. Both are accurate. I
Macklin Celebrini just reset the market. The Hurricanes won a Cup doing the opposite. The Sharks signed Macklin Celebrini to a five-year, $94 million extension on Tuesday. It kicks in for 2027-28 and carries an $18.8 million cap hit, which makes him the highest-paid player in
The Athletic ran a slow-summer piece this week and buried in it is the best fact I've read about our team all year. The Hurricanes won the Stanley Cup without a single player receiving one Hart Trophy vote. Not a finalist. Not a top-five finish. One
A graphic went around this week from Data Driven Hockey ranking the NHL's least efficient shooters over the last 10 seasons. Jordan Staal is fourth: 184.0 expected goals, 147 actual goals, 20.1 percent below expected. I'm not going to tell you the math is
Twenty-one years ago this week, the Penguins won a lottery with 30 balls in it and took an 18-year-old from Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia. Every team in the league wanted that pick. Pittsburgh got it, and the franchise stopped being a candidate for relocation more or less
Why Carolina slid from favorite to third on the 2027 board in six weeks If you've been checking the 2027 Stanley Cup futures and thinking the number looks light for a team that just went 16-3 in the playoffs, you're not imagining it. Carolina has
In May 2018, Carolina sent Marcus Kruger and a fourth-round pick to Arizona for a 25-year-old winger with 26 career goals. I remember reading about it and thinking, sure, fine, we needed forwards. That was the extent of my reaction. Depth guy. Penalty kill. Eight seasons later