Nice one, Dammit100.

V

Quote :

"Betsy Borchardt Moline: HELLO!!!! Don't we need defensemen???? Why are we putting them on waivers, maybe put some of the overpaid starters down to AHL maybe that would give them a reality check.... Hows it feel boys to be the worst team in the league... Guess it wasn't the coach after all huh? Yesterday at 7:04pm"

[Edited on December 15, 2009 at 11:30 AM. Reason : What Camus is referencing.]

12/15/2009 11:18:34 AM

^^^



lol facebook

[Edited on December 15, 2009 at 11:20 AM. Reason : blah]

12/15/2009 11:19:39 AM

Vulcan91's post from last page:

12/15/2009 11:36:26 AM

http://twitter.com/nhl_canes/status/6701560301

WOOOO! Now to put A. Ward through re-entry.

12/15/2009 12:08:09 PM

12/15/2009 12:10:57 PM

Bye Leighton!

12/15/2009 1:19:17 PM

Quote :

"In other news, a league executive confirmed that Columbus, Boston, Minnesota, San Jose, Phoenix and Carolina will be the six teams that start next season in Europe."

12/16/2009 2:10:19 AM

^Wha-wha-wha-wha-whaaaaat?

12/16/2009 2:49:36 AM

^^ really?

Im booking tickets asap

12/16/2009 2:50:37 AM

I assume our game will be in Finland...we'll probably play Minnesota.

12/16/2009 2:55:06 AM

Maybe they'll come back with a real team. . . .or herpes.

12/16/2009 6:28:06 AM

I'm saving money as of now, I'm going.

12/16/2009 7:02:01 AM

that sounds like it would be a fun trip

12/16/2009 8:58:03 AM

is the game on any channel tonight?

[Edited on December 16, 2009 at 6:20 PM. Reason : sat tv?]

12/16/2009 6:20:24 PM

12/16/2009 7:30:37 PM

no. go canes. 3-1 mmmmmmyeahhhhhh

12/16/2009 7:53:12 PM

Rrruuutttuuu

12/16/2009 9:28:05 PM

need moar finns

12/16/2009 9:50:10 PM

FINNISH THREE STARS OF THE GAME

12/16/2009 10:04:15 PM

In order to go to the playoffs I think the Canes will have to win 38 of the remaining 50....

I think with the effort of the past two weeks they could win 25 to 30 of them. Which might put us out of the race for Seguin and Hall, but they aren't Crosby or Ovechkin. Seguin just got cut from the World Junior team, so I don't think we even want to "race" for those two guys. I think we need to build through trades first, free agency second, and the draft third. We have a great young core, some guys that can be traded for draft picks, and then a low finish to get a solid draft pick in the draft.

I think the Canes can be a solid 7th or 8th place team next year, and then a 4-8 the following season. To take it even further, I can also see them being a 1-3 team the year beyond that.

12/16/2009 10:40:55 PM

Don't read into Seguin getting cut by Canada. Canada will only take one 17 year old this year at best. They're just too deep, the tournament has always been dominated by the 19 year olds, so that's my 2 cents on that. Staal didn't make it when he was 17 and he was highly touted and that's worked out quite well for the Canes (at least when he wants to play and/or isn't hurt). Hall missed them last year when he was 17, so once again don't look into it, Canada normally only takes one 17 year old with them to the tournament.

Hooray Finnish Domination tonight.

And one other thing, I think winning 25-30 of the next 48 or so games. As awesome as the turn around would be, I think it wouldn't benefit us long term. I want us to finish in the bottom 5 so we have the chance to get Hall to play on Staal's, Sutter's or Boychuk's left wing. Unless one of them can move to the wing or Seguin can, I'd think Hall would be the first choice, but who knows.

12/16/2009 11:16:32 PM

Quote :

"Which might put us out of the race for Seguin and Hall, but they aren't Crosby or Ovechkin. Seguin just got cut from the World Junior team, so I don't think we even want to "race" for those two guys. I think we need to build through trades first, free agency second, and the draft third."

I don't think you understand how good these guys are. No, they may not be Crosby or Ovechkin. But, NO ONE in the last 20 years has been Crosby or Ovechkin. They are generational players. Seguin was cut from the World Junior team because he was 17 years old. Pretty much NO ONE makes the team at that age. Eric Staal didn't make the team either in his underage year.

Great win tonight! I don't want us to start closing the gap on 29th or anything, but it is fun to win at home, and great to see Ruutu get his first NHL hat trick. As a reward he got a Ruutu koozie from steviewonder after the game.

12/16/2009 11:17:11 PM

Nice hat trick, Canes.

12/16/2009 11:17:59 PM

Tonight we are all Finns.

I was born in Finland. Vantaa, Finland to be more exact (Same city, same hospital as Ruutu). That's my claim to fame Moved to the U.S. when I was 7. Still visit frequently, last trip was in July w/ the gf.

Wish I could have gone to that game tonight instead of losing my own semi-final hockey game
/end life story

Canes will make the playoffs. Plenty of time.

12/16/2009 11:22:29 PM

i love the canes, but making the playoffs this year would require a friggin miracle

12/17/2009 12:03:49 AM

tanking and trading everyone would be more fun than attempt to play games

there's no way they're coming back

12/17/2009 12:14:07 AM

As far as the Seguin situation goes, Bob McKenzie said it best: the only underage players who had a shot at making the Canadian WJC team are already playing serious pro hockey and won't be let go by their teams to play in the WJC.

Finnish three stars was nice, I guess, but anyone who thinks Pitkanen had a better game than Staal is blind.

I hate to admit it, and they're sure as hell not worth $8 million as a group, but the fourth line did their job tonight, and did it well.

12/17/2009 3:16:55 AM

tripp just got a text from sami kapanen's neighbor that said the finns were energized by the SO SEXY poster

12/17/2009 9:03:56 AM

hahaha

12/17/2009 9:05:51 AM

I have heard that these two guys aren't even as good as Stamkos or that kid drafted by the Isles Tavares....

But I trust Vinyl and Vulcan... so if we get one of those two chaps I will be pretty damn excited.

12/17/2009 9:33:11 AM

The general consensus is that if Hall was in last year's draft, he would have gone number one ahead of Tavares, Hedman, and Duchene. I'm not sure about Seguin, though. Either way, these are players (and Cam Fowler is too) that are franchise changing.

12/17/2009 9:48:42 AM

I keep seeing this thread bumped hoping that a trade has been made.

12/17/2009 10:14:01 AM

Jrb, don't get your hopes up in December. There is a trade freeze around the holidays, so it's not happening until the second week of Jan. at the earliest I would imagine.

12/17/2009 11:08:31 AM

The trade freeze only lasts until the 27th.

12/18/2009 9:54:19 AM

Right, but Rutherford has been pretty clear he is going to get into January before he looks to move anyone... that was my point

12/18/2009 11:22:47 AM

yeah, JR is going to do a deal whenever the time is right

he says a lot of things

12/18/2009 11:29:06 AM

JR said he had complete faith in Laviolette and then fired him two days later.

If anything, I take statements from JR about definitely not doing anything to mean just the opposite.

Forslund told a story once that when he was working for the Whalers as PR director the night before the draft, he asked JR if they were going to make any moves and JR said, "No, John, no moves. Go to bed." He then called Forslund two hours later to discuss press releases for the trade he had just made.

12/18/2009 11:36:01 AM

Well, nothing will happen til the 27th. Like you said Vinyl.

So, Go to bed John!

12/18/2009 12:35:22 PM

nhl_canes

The Hurricanes have activated Michael Ryan from injured reserve and assigned him to Albany (AHL).


it's about time

12/18/2009 1:58:52 PM

WTF? There was the shocking stat of the day.

Best powerplay in the NHL in the month of December: the Carolina Hurricanes.

12/18/2009 7:58:35 PM

7 for 21. Yeah, I guess that moved us from 30th to 28th in the league.

12/18/2009 8:14:11 PM

TRIPP with the NC State mention

12/18/2009 8:30:58 PM

DWYER

12/18/2009 8:40:19 PM

well damn

12/18/2009 9:12:17 PM

12/18/2009 9:23:30 PM

12/18/2009 9:33:45 PM

The race for Hall/Seguin/Fowler:

TEAM		GP	W	L	OT	PTS
Carolina 	34 	8 	20 	6 	22
Toronto 	35 	12 	16 	7 	31
Tampa Bay 	34 	11 	14 	9 	31
Philadelphia 	33 	15 	16 	2 	32

12/18/2009 10:13:28 PM

this team is simply delightful

12/18/2009 10:28:32 PM

This is all of the negative worlds colliding.

12/19/2009 2:11:24 PM

Did anybody else hear Tripp try to convince John they needed to call one of the Finnish games from a sauna? LOL it was priceless. It was right before our 3rd goal

12/19/2009 8:14:46 PM