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9/14/2009 8:49:29 PM

for page 2, because that's fucking awesome

9/14/2009 8:57:14 PM

9/14/2009 9:03:00 PM

if a puck hits it do we have to go a man down for 2 min?

9/14/2009 9:10:51 PM

That makes Staal look like a giraffe.

9/15/2009 12:31:27 AM

it really does, they need to take in to account the space in between the screens, not just chop the image up and stretch it across the gaps

looking forward to it though

9/15/2009 1:01:11 AM

lol, via LGC:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jbk-ltd/sets/72157622374584200/

a finnish sports magazine shoot the 3 Finns tailgating in the parking lot with a bunch of canes fans

9/15/2009 2:45:40 PM

Quote :

"LET'S GO GET WET"

9/15/2009 2:55:40 PM

Does anybody know if they are doing the STH gift thing again this year? I swear I heard that somewhere, but I haven't seen anything about it.

9/15/2009 3:14:28 PM

nhl 10 has the canes intro song as rock you like a hurricane, thought that was badass. still has the old jumbotron tho.

9/15/2009 3:21:53 PM

^I had mine pre-ordered...kinda pissed it didn't get here today

9/15/2009 8:03:49 PM

Yeah that is pretty sweet with the song. They are the only team in the game that has their real song like that to my knowledge.

9/15/2009 8:34:01 PM

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"Bret Hedican will officially announce his retirement today, but with one regret: “The one thing I really am sad about is that I didn’t retire a Hurricane,” Hedican said Tuesday from his home in California. “I really wanted to. I wish it was possible to sign a one-day contract. I’d pay (general manager) Jimmy (Rutherford) to let me sign for a dollar and put the jersey on again."

9/16/2009 11:07:14 AM

^I wish we could make that happen!!!

9/16/2009 11:23:51 AM

damn....that would be pretty cool if we could work out something

9/16/2009 11:37:15 AM

I guess the NHL is not like the NFL, where you can do such thing.

9/16/2009 12:34:18 PM

The new CBA pretty much put an end to it. If we signed Hedican, the contract would count against the salary cap even if he retired.

On another note, the Albany CEO sort of leaked that we are apparently looking for options in 'the Carolinas' for an AHL affiliation. Could the Checkers be moving on up to the AHL?

[Edited on September 16, 2009 at 1:01 PM. Reason : .]

9/16/2009 12:59:03 PM

It definitely would be the most likely candidate. How do the Checkers do attendance wise? They obviously have the arena in place, but no clue how many people the team could pull in.

It would be badass though.

9/16/2009 1:05:41 PM

The Checkers do very well attendance wise. I researched all that and posted the numbers somewhere once, but I can't remember where. If I recall they actually outdrew a majority of the AHL teams. Plus, they play in the nicest arena in minor league sports (and nicer than a good many NHL venues).

[Edited on September 16, 2009 at 1:27 PM. Reason : .]

9/16/2009 1:26:37 PM

Sad about the Hedican thing. Barrasso got to retire a Penguin.

9/16/2009 1:33:55 PM

i do love the rats moniker

but it would be pretty sweet to be able to run down to Charlotte and see the prospects

9/16/2009 1:40:37 PM

There is a rumor that the Canes want all 3 affiliates in North Carolina. They are looking at a scenario where our AHL team would be in Charlotte, and our ECHL eventually being in Greensboro.

[Edited on September 16, 2009 at 5:28 PM. Reason : hopefully that will make you happy. ]

9/16/2009 5:13:59 PM

supposedly there's a rumor!?! did you hear that from a guy who said he knows someone? fuckin hell!

9/16/2009 5:24:00 PM

Thats really not that far fetched... Greensboro was the Carolina Monarchs of the AHL, Charlotte Checkers ECHL... but when the Canes moved, obviously to Greensboro.... that ended the AHL and hockey in Greensboro has never been the same.

How fucking sweet would it be to have that scenario with Charlotte being the AHL... people in Charlotte would possibly take more interest in the Canes. Which, let me tell you, sucks donkey balls here. There's 2 million people here that give two shits about the Hurricanes and it pains my heart.

God Oct. 2 can't get here quick enough

9/16/2009 5:52:12 PM

oh, I'd love for it to happen.

9/16/2009 5:54:09 PM

If Billy Crystal can sign a one day contract to be a Yankee, why can't the Hurricanes do it for a real player?

9/16/2009 6:36:35 PM

CBA and salary cap constraints.

9/16/2009 6:41:56 PM

Tomorrow night's lineup:

Ruutu – Staal – Cole
Whitney – Cullen – LaRose
Blanchard – Ryan – Dwyer
Conboy – Sutter – Boychuk

Gleason – Corvo
Harrison – Ward
Rodney – Carson

Ward
Peters

9/17/2009 5:06:33 PM

can't wait to see that 4th line


whats up with these preseason games being priced the same as regular season? wtf

9/17/2009 5:34:57 PM

Yeah that has always pissed me off. Doesn't make any sense.

9/17/2009 5:36:15 PM

I am looking for some cheaper tickets for the game tomorrow. Has anyone used Stub Hub or any other similar websites to purchase Hurricanes tickets? Are they legit?

9/17/2009 10:09:00 PM

stubhub's definitely legit. can't speak for any others

although it's probably too late to get them for a game tomorrow, since they have to be shipped and everything

[Edited on September 17, 2009 at 10:11 PM. Reason : .]

9/17/2009 10:11:19 PM

You can print tickets from Stub Hub usually.

9/17/2009 10:19:16 PM

gameday bump!

9/18/2009 12:03:37 AM

9/18/2009 12:17:57 AM

Will probably hang out in the horse lot an hour or 2 prior to the game. Getting pumped about the CAINS

9/18/2009 12:43:18 AM

Really wish Bowman and McBain were playing tomorrow, but I can settle for Sutter and Boychuk.

9/18/2009 12:45:16 AM

30 HD games on FSC this year.

http://hurricanes.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=498995

9/18/2009 1:54:09 PM

19 of the HD games are away, so that's good. My fear was that they would just do mostly home ones.

9/18/2009 1:59:45 PM

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"On another note, the Albany CEO sort of leaked that we are apparently looking for options in 'the Carolinas' for an AHL affiliation. Could the Checkers be moving on up to the AHL?"

Would Charlotte support an AHL team? I mean, they barely support an ECHL team. Although it would be nice to get an ECHL team back up here in Roanoke...maybe that franchise can move here and Charlotte can go AHL?

What about bringing back the GBoro Monarchs? They'd be the only game in town come October each year.

BEAP BEAP

[Edited on September 18, 2009 at 3:40 PM. Reason : .]

9/18/2009 3:39:47 PM

How do they barely support an ECHL team? They have the best attendance in the ECHL, and as I posted above, their attendance would beat most AHL teams.

9/18/2009 4:17:04 PM

Missed that post. I was going off of hearsay. I brought my weak game.

I was really just trying to make up a scenario under which we could get a team back up here, one that's not in the UHL or SPHL. I don't blame owners for avoiding the Roanoke Civic Center in favor of better venues though. The city has been inept at maintaining and marketing it. We'd be lucky to have a SPHL team, which sucks since they don't have any sort of development agreement with anyone.

[Edited on September 18, 2009 at 5:12 PM. Reason : .]

9/18/2009 5:09:47 PM

Enjoyed the preseason game last night. Really wish the powerplay timer was bigger. Hard to see.

9/19/2009 8:33:05 AM

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"Forwards Mike Angelidis, Nicolas Blanchard, Chris Terry and Nick Dodge, along with defensemen Zack Fitzgerald, Jonathan Paiement and Brett Bellemore and goaltender Mike Murphy were all assigned to Albany. "

9/19/2009 11:26:31 AM

love the megatron. also pretty cool how they can be playing 3 or 4 different videos at once.

9/19/2009 11:36:50 AM

They need to move the penalty timers like Jrb mentioned. I kept having to search to find it every time I went to look for it.

There was nobody there last night, but that's preseason for you.





Caniac Carnival is tomorrow.

9/19/2009 11:40:21 AM

I wanted to go but when I looked online for tickets they were the same price as for the regular season. F that.

9/19/2009 12:27:50 PM

^It is silly. They should make it a family night where kids get in free and parents get 1/2 off. I mean you'll have more people there and then during the season the kids will scream about how they wanna go to another game.

9/19/2009 12:36:27 PM

I agree I have no idea why they do that every year. They either need to severely discount the preseason games, or just have them somewhere else, like Charlotte and Greensboro.

9/19/2009 12:44:35 PM

they've had a free admission preseason game before. don't know why they still don't have that.

9/19/2009 1:21:44 PM