RALEIGH, NC – Ron Francis, Executive Vice President and General Manager of the National Hockey League’s Carolina Hurricanes, today announced that the team has relieved Head Coach Kirk Muller and Assistant Coaches John MacLean and Dave Lewis of the......
If Peter Karmanos gets more involved running the business operations of the team, is that a good thing or bad? Fans of the Carolina Hurricanes are becoming more and more acquainted with the team's Chief Executive Officer and Owner. It seems they may become even more familiar with him in the near future. Local interviews with Peter Karmanos have been pretty rare in the past, but he made himself available...
Head coach Kirk Muller and his two bench assistants, Dave Lewis and John MacLean, were all fired Monday by the Carolina Hurricanes by new general manager Ron Francis. The Carolina Hurricanes parted ways with Kirk Muller Monday, firing the coach and his two bench assistants, Dave Lewis and John MacLean, after three seasons. Goaltending coach Greg Stefan was also reassigned to the pro scouting department....
Foundation has donated more than $12 million locally since 1997 Looking for some good news from this past hockey season? While the Carolina Hurricanes were less than successful on the ice, their affiliated charitable organization had another stellar year. The Kids 'N Community Foundation announced today that they awarded over $582,000 in cash grants to local charities during the 2013-14 season. ...
RALEIGH, NC – Doug Warf, Vice President of Marketing for the National Hockey League’s Carolina Hurricanes and Executive Director of the Carolina Hurricanes Kids ‘N Community Foundation, today announced that the Kids ‘N Community Foundation has com......
Mike Vellucci may have been an unfamiliar name to many Hurricanes fans a month ago, but Carolina added a respected and bright hockey mind when they named him assistant general manager and director of hockey operations. To many, the hiring of Mike Vellucci as the Carolina Hurricanes ' new assistant general manager/director of hockey operations seemed like par for the course: another from-the-ranks...
How did your round 1 picks do? Find out here and make your picks for the second round now! The first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs had plenty of intrigue and lots of correct answers in the CC Playoff Pick-Em. Below is the spreadsheet with the first round picks and the standings as of the end of the first round. Interestingly, there was only one major upset: only 10 people picked the Wild to beat...
RALEIGH, NC – The National Hockey League today announced that Carolina Hurricanes Alternate Captain Manny Malhotra has been named as a finalist for the 2013-14 Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy. Malhotra is one of three finalists along with New Jerse......
Carolina Hurricanes center and alternate captain Manny Malhotra was named one of three finalists for the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy. The Vancouver Canucks didn't think it was safe for Manny Malhotra to play hockey anymore. But the 33-year-old center wasn't ready to hang up his skates, and after a successful tryout with the Carolina’s AHL affiliate, the Charlotte Checkers, he was signed for the...
Former Hurricanes boss seems to leave options open for future. "We'll see what the next chapter brings." As I attended the press conference on Monday where the Carolina Hurricanes announced the promotion of Ron Francis to General Manager, I could not help but feel a bit nostalgic, even if I had not been around the full 20 years of Jim Rutherford's career. Many memories went through my mind, including...
Reactions from around the league as an on-ice legend takes the helm of the Hurricanes front office. There is no shortage of news and opinion on the first General Manager transition since the Carolina Hurricanes opened shop in Raleigh, so let's get right to it. Here's the full press conference from the Canes YouTube channel: The Canes website has comprehensive coverage including feature articles, interviews,...
With twenty years of work to critique, what are the top ten transactions of Jim Rutherford's tenure as Canes general manager? Jim Rutherford's transactions in 20 years at the helm of the Carolina Hurricanes take up four full pages of 6-point font in the 2013-14 media guide. What have been the most noteworthy - good, bad, or indifferent? Canes Country takes a look back at the 10 most newsworthy (not...
RALEIGH, NC – Peter Karmanos, Chief Executive Officer, Owner and Governor of the National Hockey League’s Carolina Hurricanes, today announced that the team has promoted Ron Francis to Executive Vice President and General Manager. In addition, Bri......
The Hurricanes have called a press conference for noon today where it is widely expected that Jim Rutherford will step down as general manager. If this is the end of Jim Rutherford’s two decade-long reign as the general manager of the Hartford Whalers and Carolina Hurricanes , it's an unfitting end to a spectacular run. Was it spectacular on the ice? Sometimes, especially when Rutherford built the...
RALEIGH, NC – The Carolina Hurricanes will hold a news conference on Monday, April 28, at noon in the Media Lounge on the arena level of PNC Arena. WHO: Hurricanes executive management WHEN: Monday, April 28, 12 p.m. WHERE: PNC Arena, Media......
As many as four teams could be out of the playoffs by the time Monday rolls around. One thread for two days' worth of hockey, including potential elimination games for the Red Wings and Kings on Saturday and for the Blues and Stars on Sunday. Game schedules, times and announcers (via Awful Announcing ): Saturday 3 p.m.: Red Wings at Bruins , Game 5 (Bruins lead 3-1) on NBC (Dave Strader, Eddie Olczyk,...
Only three games on the schedule tonight, but no shortage of snarl. It's a little unusual that a series with such a high profile as Flyers / Rangers would have been shunted off to CNBC for three of the four games of the series, but here we are. Game 4 of the series gets going at 7:00, also on TSN, and the Flyers welcome Steve Mason back into their crease after he relieved Ray Emery in the third period...
Should Ron Francis be the next General Manager of the Carolina Hurricanes? There are a lot of assumptions going on in Carolina. It is assumed that Jim Rutherford will soon step down as acting General Manager and it is also assumed that Ron Francis will be his successor. About a month ago, Rutherford was quoted as saying that he was considering stepping down. When asked about possible changes over...
A trio of Game 4s takes us into the second week of the 2014 playoffs. Last night the Tampa Bay Lightning were sent to the golf course, leaving 15 teams still chasing the Stanley Cup . No one is in danger of joining them tonight, but with all three series on the schedule tonight at a 2-1 advantage, there will be some urgency in the games tonight. The night starts in Columbus (7:00, NBCSN, CBC), where...
One team could be out of the chase for the Cup by the end of the night. We could bid farewell to our first team of the 2014 Stanley Cup Playoffs tonight, among four games on the docket. The Canadiens have taken a surprising 3-0 lead in their series and can send the Lightning packing with a win tonight in Game 4 (7:00 p.m., CNBC, CBC). Thirty minutes later, the Bruins and Red Wings will see their series...