Brent Burns spent three years here. Then he signed in Colorado to chase a Cup. And the team he left won it the next season. I have thought about that a lot since June. I don't know how you process that as a player. He went to Colorado
There's a render going around of a black Canes jersey with Struttin' Stormy as the chest crest instead of the flag logo, and my first reaction was that I'd buy it immediately. My second reaction was to check whether it was real, because it looked
September 29. Panthers in town. Banner going up. I've been thinking about this game since June and I keep landing on the same thing, which is that I don't really care about the hockey that night. Not at first anyway. I care about standing there while
Kane didn't need to do this. He could've gone home to Buffalo, played out the string in front of the people he grew up with, and nobody would've blinked. He could've chased one more contender and tried to add a fourth ring
For years I watched this team play the exact same honest, structured, skilled hockey and win a ton of regular season games, and every spring I had the same nagging thought. We don't have a guy. You know the guy I mean. The one who makes the other
So Brady Tkachuk is a Panther now. Great. The team that's been the wall in front of us just added the guy our captain put on the ice three seconds into last year's playoffs. I keep coming back to that fight. Tkachuk did his usual thing,
So this made the rounds a couple weeks ago. Somebody in Kamloops, British Columbia was scrolling Facebook Marketplace and found Logan Stankoven, fresh off a Stanley Cup, selling two brand new Warrior sticks for 175 Canadian each. Screenshots went everywhere. B/R Open Ice picked it up. For about two
Peter Laviolette is coaching again. This week the Los Angeles Kings named him their next head coach, the seventh franchise he's stood behind the bench for in a 23-year career. Kings fans are reading about win totals and playoff droughts and whether he can get them out
Some Hurricanes are here for years. Max Domi was really here for one night. But what a night it was. Go back to the 2022 trade deadline. Carolina needed scoring and was tight against the cap, which meant the expectation was they couldn't do much. Instead they pulled
Six years ago, Brandon Bussi was working at Chipotle. Not as a bit. Not for a commercial. He was a college kid at Western Michigan picking up weekend shifts in the summer of 2020, folding burritos for extra money during a pandemic. In his own words, he was a student
Some photos just hit different if you're a Caniac. This week, Sebastian Aho brought the Stanley Cup home to Oulu, Finland, and NHL.com captured the whole scene. Flames shooting out of the stage. A festival crowd roaring. Aho hoisting the trophy in a jacket that read "
Sometimes the best moves a team makes are the ones it doesn't make. This week, NHL.com ran through the Tampa Bay Lightning's offseason, and tucked into the transaction log was a name Carolina fans will recognize: John Carlson. The Lightning signed the veteran defenseman to