Somebody linked an old Canes Country piece the other day and I've been thinking about it since. January 2, 2017. The headline is basically that Cam Ward is keeping the Hurricanes in the playoff chase but he can't do it alone. Go read the details and
Every time one of these contracts lands, and there have been a lot of them this summer, somebody points out that it's still nothing compared to the other leagues. Celebrini just became the highest paid player in hockey at 18.8 million a year. That would make him
Macklin Celebrini signed today. Five years, 94 million, 18.8 a year. Highest cap hit in the league, passing Leo Carlsson's 18 from earlier this summer. And he earned it. I want to say that up front because I'm about to use his contract to make
Saw this going around Twitter and Instagram this week. Most wins in the NHL since 2021, playoffs included. 1. Hurricanes, 345 2. Avalanche, 342 3. Panthers, 327 4. Oilers, 317 5. Golden Knights, 316 First reaction, obviously, is that we're number one and I'll take it.
I keep thinking about how many swings we took at a guy like this before it worked. Guentzel. Rantanen. Years of chasing a real scorer, getting close, and watching it not stick. It turned into a whole thing about this franchise. We could develop, we could defend, we could out-
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