Hurricane Forecast: Stopping the Slump
Happy Monday ‘Canes fans, and welcome to another addition of Hurricane Forecast. For those of you who can still stomach the logo, thanks for tuning in. Let’s get started… Week…
Happy Monday ‘Canes fans, and welcome to another addition of Hurricane Forecast. For those of you who can still stomach the logo, thanks for tuning in. Let’s get started… Week…
This one was supposed to be a layup. A chip shot. A gimme. A *insert sports cliche here*. The Carolina Hurricanes, sitting just three points out of the final Wild…
Hurricane Forecast will be a new weekly feature on THW, outlining the week ahead for the Carolina Hurricanes every Sunday. We will be taking a look at the previous week…
No. This is not a parallel to the Curious Case of Benjamin Button. If it were, there would be no discussion. Carolina Hurricanes goalie Cam Ward, who suffered a…
The Carolina Hurricanes have been one of the NHL’s hottest teams of late, sporting a 5-1 record in their last six games. Their latest effort, a 3-0 loss to the…
The Carolina Hurricanes are forty-three games into the 2013-14 NHL regular season. They carry an 18-16-9 record, and sit two points behind the Toronto Maple Leafs for one of the…
With the fantasy hockey season under way and lineups mostly set (barring any injury), fantasy managers might be quite comfortable with the product that they have going forward. However, there…
Pittsburgh Penguins’ Head Coach Dan Bylsma stated last week that he has the best goalie tandem in the league with Marc-Andre Fleury and Tomas Vokoun. When referring to the regular…
One of Carolina’s best moves this off-season, in my opinion, was the signing of 27-old goaltender Anton Khudobin, who had just finished a solid truncated season with the Boston Bruins…
Compared to the last few years, the Carolina Hurricanes’ general manager Jim Rutherford has accomplished virtually nothing this offseason. There was no trade involving his first round pick, nor was…
By Wayne Whittaker, Boston Bruins Correspondent Do you remember Rob Tallas? How about Blaine Lacher? Bill Ranford? Jon Casey? Jim Carey? John Grahame? Hannu Toivonen? Jeff Hackett? Steve Shields? I…
This all seems too familiar.
It will be three years next month when I originally wrote a column on what a mistake it was extending Andrew Ference. And at the time, it sort of was. Ference finished the 2009-10 season playing in only 51 games, recording eight assists and no goals. He was even worse in the postseason after his contract extension. He never played in a game in which he could be considered a “plus” player and finished those 13 games with a -9.
The stats weren’t pretty, but Boston Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli must have saw something in the oft-injured defenseman that warranted an $850,000 raise that bumped Ference’s annual salary to $2.25 million. Turns out Chiarelli was right all along.