Month: October 2018

Petr Mrazek’s one-legged fist pump after steering the final shot of the shootout wide was a novel contribution on a night the Carolina Hurricanes pushed the envelope on celebrations, and his third-period saves helped get the Hurricanes to overtime, and all of that was still the least of what he did Friday night. Scott Darling will almost certainly start Sunday, because he appears to be ready after one rehab start and because he has to…

Brock McGinn scored in regulation and had the lone shootout goal in the Carolina Hurricanes’ 4-3 victory over the San Jose Sharks on Friday night. Carolina outshot San Jose 23-6 from start of the second period to the midpoint of the third and finished with a 41-23 edge. It was the first time the Sharks had been outshot this season. McGinn, Teuvo Teravainen and Dougie Hamilton scored for Carolina in the second period, and Teravainen…

It took a while for the Carolina Hurricanes to get started Friday at PNC Arena but once they did … The Hurricanes erased a two-goal deficit against the San Jose Sharks, taking the game to overtime and then to a shootout, emerging with a 4-3 victory. Brock McGinn, who scored in the second period for the Canes, had the only shootout goal to win it. He then led the Canes in the postgame celebration, the…

Dougie Hamilton of the Carolina Hurricanes is a tall man on the ice, standing 6 feet 6. Put the defenseman at, say, a Duke basketball practice and he comes off average-sized. Hamilton recently attended a practice at Cameron Indoor Stadium with teammates Warren Foegele, Scott Darling and Clark Bishop, watching how Blue Devils coach Mike Krzyzewski runs things. “It was a lot of fun,” Hamilton said. “I really like that stuff. I like college sports…

Dundon frames the moment for Hurricanes rookie Hurricanes owner Tom Dundon presents rookie forward Andrei Svechnikov with a framed photo of him scoring his first NHL goal, along with the puck, following the Vancouver game on Oct. 9, 2018. Svechnikov scored Oct. 7, against the New York Rangers.

Jaccob Slavin and Brett Pesce. For the past couple of years, those two names were interlocked as a Carolina Hurricanes’ lineup fixture, a defensive shutdown pairing: Slavin on the left side, Pesce on the right. Both American-born, both coming out of college hockey and both defensemen given long-term contracts with the Canes. Slavin and Pesce. The fit was a good one. But the coming of Dougie Hamilton this season has brought a change. It’s now…

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) — Some seafood caught in North Carolina may not be safe to eat in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence. Florence made landfall in Wrightsville Beach on Sept. 14. It was a Category 1 storm at landfall, and the storm moved extremely slowly–dumping dozens of inches of rain on many parts of North Carolina. Florence dumped 8 trillion gallons of water on North Carolina. That’s enough to fill Falls Lake more than 70…