| UPCOMING GAMES |
| NO SCHEDULED GAMES |
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LAST 10 GAMES
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| 4/27 |
CAR 3 at PIT 8 |
Lost |
F |
| 4/25 |
NYR 4 at CAR 3 |
Lost |
OT |
| 4/23 |
NYI 3 at CAR 4 |
Won |
SO |
| 4/21 |
CAR 3 at TBL 2 |
Won |
F |
| 4/20 |
PHI 5 at CAR 3 |
Lost |
F |
| 4/18 |
CAR 3 at WPG 4 |
Lost |
OT |
| 4/16 |
CAR 2 at OTT 3 |
Lost |
F |
| 4/13 |
BOS 2 at CAR 4 |
Won |
F |
| 4/11 |
CAR 1 at WSH 3 |
Lost |
F |
| 4/9 |
PIT 5 at CAR 3 |
Lost |
F |
| Won-3 Lost-5 OT-2 |
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| Staal avoids surgery to repair damaged knee (Reuters) |
| (Reuters) - Carolina Hurricanes captain Eric Staal will not require surgery to repair knee ligament damage sustained while playing for Canada at the ice hockey world championships, the National Hockey League team said on Saturday. Hurricanes general manager Jim Rutherford said on the team's website that a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) test revealed a third-degree sprain of the medial collateral ligament and rehabilitation should last three months. It is expected Staal will be healthy and ready to start the 2013-14 season. ... |
| Posted: 05/18/2013 |
| NHL-Staal avoids surgery to repair damaged knee (Reuters) |
| May 18 (Reuters) - Carolina Hurricanes captain Eric Staal will not require surgery to repair knee ligament damage sustained while playing for Canada at the ice hockey world championships, the National Hockey League team said on Saturday. Hurricanes general manager Jim Rutherford said on the team's website that a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) test revealed a third-degree sprain of the medial collateral ligament and rehabilitation should last three months. It is expected Staal will be healthy and ready to start the 2013-14 season. ... |
| Posted: 05/18/2013 |
| Eric Staal won’t require surgery after nasty Alex Edler hit in Worlds (Puck Daddy) |
| Carolina Hurricanes fans can exhale, put down the whiskey bottle and look forward to training camp: Eric Staal isn’t going to miss significant time after the knee-on-knee hit from Alex Edler of the Vancouver Canucks during the Canada/Sweden IIHF World Championships game on Thursday.
According to the Hurricanes, an MRI on Staal’s right knee “revealed a third-degree sprain of the medial collateral ligament (MCL). Surgery will not be required to repair the ligament, and Staal’s rehabilitation should last three months. It is expected that he will be healthy and ready to play to start the 2013-14 season.”
To say it looked a lot worse would be an understatement .
Staal needed to be helped from the ice after writhing in pain for a few minutes following the collision with Edler, the Team Sweden defenseman who was given a 5-minutes major and a game misconduct, and then was suspended for the rest of the tournament . |
| Posted: 05/18/2013 |
| Swedish defenseman banned for hit on Canada's Staal (Reuters) |
| (Reuters) - Sweden's Alexander Edler was suspended for the rest of the ice hockey world championships on Friday for a knee-on-knee hit that injured Canada captain Eric Staal. Edler collided with Staal in the first period of Thursday's quarter-final in Stockholm, leaving the Canadian forward on the ice in visible pain and clutching his right knee. Staal, captain of the National Hockey League's (NHL) Carolina Hurricanes, was helped off the ice and did not return to the game, which Sweden went on to win 3-2 in a shootout. ... |
| Posted: 05/17/2013 |
| Ice hockey-Swedish defenseman banned for hit on Canada's Staal (Reuters) |
| May 17 (Reuters) - Sweden's Alexander Edler was suspended for the rest of the ice hockey world championships on Friday for a knee-on-knee hit that injured Canada captain Eric Staal. Edler collided with Staal in the first period of Thursday's quarter-final in Stockholm, leaving the Canadian forward on the ice in visible pain and clutching his right knee. Staal, captain of the National Hockey League's (NHL) Carolina Hurricanes, was helped off the ice and did not return to the game, which Sweden went on to win 3-2 in a shootout. ... |
| Posted: 05/17/2013 |
| Alex Edler suspended for rest of IIHF Worlds after kneeing Eric Staal (Puck Daddy) |
| Carolina Hurricanes fans are on edge waiting to hear about the severity of a knee injury captain Eric Staal suffered Thursday during Canada's World Championships quarterfinal game against Sweden.
Late in the first period, Staal took a knee-on-knee hit from Swedish defenseman Alex Edler and went down in pain. Edler was kicked out of the game and on Friday the IIHF suspended him for the rest of the tournament.
Once again, here's the hit:
From the IIHF :
After reviewing the video evidence and the respective reports, including the Game Supervisor Report, the Referee Supervisor Report, the verbal medical report and the report from the hearing with the player, the panel has determined that Edler should have been penalized with a match penalty as he was in clear violation of the playing rule 536b (Kneeing).
...
The disciplinary panel deemed Edler’s action as reckless, dangerous and that it was in disregard to the vulnerability of his opponent and for that he must be held accountable.
Edler will miss Sweden's semifinal game against Finland on Saturday and either the bronze or gold medal game on Sunday, depending on the result.
Staal is flying back to Raleigh on Friday and is scheduled to undergo an MRI on Saturday to assess the damage.
“It’s unfortunate and hopefully it’s not too serious,” Rutherford told Chip Alexander of the News Observer . “If it is serious, hopefully there will be enough recovery time for him to be ready for next season.
"We’ll just hope for the best.”
Follow Sean Leahy on Twitter at @Sean_Leahy
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| Posted: 05/17/2013 |
| Eric Staal writhes in pain after knee-on-knee hit by Alex Edler in Worlds (Video) (Puck Daddy) |
| The IIHF world championships are a way for NHL players who have been eliminated from the playoffs to continue playing while representing their country. Like any international tournament, these players run the risk of suffering some kind of catastrophic injury in an exhibition game.
With that, watch Eric Staal of Team Canada in excruciating pain after a knee-on-knee collision with Vancouver Canucks defenseman Alex Edler of Team Sweden on Thursday in Helsinki:
You can also watch the clip on Vine.
After writhing on the ice for a few moments, the Carolina Hurricanes captain was helped to the back by his teammates.
This reverse angle from TSN’s coverage gives some clarity. There’s no effort to avoid the hit as Staal attempts to backhand the puck. But it may have just been a case where the two players were both in unfortunately positions. Edler's not known for his dirty play, for what it's worth. But from a certain angle, that sure didn't look like anything but an attempt to take out Staal.
Edler was given a major penalty and a game misconduct for the hit. What he’ll get from the IIHF for it remains to be seen.
Hopefully Hurricanes fans didn’t just watch their captain suffer a serious injury is an international tournament whose importance is exclusive to Russia and Scandanavia. |
| Posted: 05/16/2013 |
| Masterton Trophy Finalists: Sidney Crosby vs. Josh Harding vs. Adam McQuaid (Puck Daddy) |
| The NHL on Tuesday announced the finalists for the Bill Masterton Trophy, as center Sidney Crosby of the Pittsburgh Penguins, goaltender Josh Harding of the Minnesota Wild and defenseman Adam McQuaid of the Boston Bruins are up for the award that is given “to the player who best exemplifies the qualities of perseverance, sportsmanship and dedication to hockey.”
The local chapters of the Professional Hockey Writers Association nominate 30 players for the award; the top three vote-getters were the finalists for the award.
This is the NHL’s "Lifetime Original Movie" award, given to the player who overcame the most horrific ailment (concussions, cancer, catastrophic injuries) or the most personal strife (Jose Theodore winning after the death of his son).
All three of this year’s nominees have varying degrees of heart-wrenching stories to tell.
That said, they could have just announced this year’s field is “Josh Harding and two other guys who didn’t have multiple sclerosis" and been done with it, because Josh Harding is going to win the Masterton.
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| Posted: 05/14/2013 |
| Eulogy: Remembering the 2012-13 Washington Capitals (Puck Daddy) |
| (Ed. Note: As the Stanley Cup Playoffs continue, we're bound to lose some friends along the journey. We've asked for these losers, gone but not forgotten, to be eulogized by the people who knew the teams best: The bloggers who hated them the most . Here is Puck Daddy’s own Ryan Lambert , fondly recalling the Washington Capitals . Again: This is a roast and you will be offended by it , so don't take it so seriously.)
We are gathered here today to mourn not only the loss of the Washington Capitals, but also the loss of their chances of reasonably competing for a Stanley Cup any time in even the relatively near future.
You tend to hear a lot of talk about how one team or another has a "window" in which they can reasonably win the Stanley Cup. San Jose, for example, has had its window open and close so many times — by the media's reckoning — that Doug Wilson finally installed a revolving door to save on energy.
Another team for whom we hear entirely too much about their "window" is the Washington Capitals.
But the thing about that is if it was open at all any more (and frankly, it probably wasn't), it was open in the way that smokers crack their window on the highway, and that horrible high-pitched sound of wind rushing in so loud that you can't hear the radio any more was the voice of a thousand Alex Ovechkin apologists who wanted nothing more than for that incredible back half of the season to once again be reality, rather than outlier.
Just as death is inevitable, so too was this result; the kind of slow, heavy train you could feel coming miles away if you touched your hand to the track, its whistle a deep and mournful cry carried to you by the wind.
Of course the Capitals were going to trip in the first round. It couldn't happen any other way. Because, with the Capitals goes the Southeast Division, and nothing in the history of hockey has ever been more fitting than the last-ever champion of the worst division in the history of professional sports than losing at home to a six-seed that finished the regular season with one fewer point.
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| Posted: 05/14/2013 |
| What We Learned: Pittsburgh Penguins have to get rid of Marc-Andre Fleury (Puck Daddy) |
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Hello, this is a feature that will run through the entire season and aims to recap the weekend’s events and boils those events down to one admittedly superficial fact or stupid opinion about each team. Feel free to complain about it.
One of the things people said constantly throughout the Pittsburgh Penguins' six-game series victory over the New York Islanders was that their play was well below the expected level of quality.
In fact, the most common refrain was that this particular brand of awful play -- rife with defensive irresponsibility and baffling lack of execution for a team that was pretty much incredible from start to finish this year -- was probably only good enough to get them past a try-hard pretender like the Islanders.
Against a real team, it was generally agreed, this kind of play would result in them losing the series in short order, probably pretty badly.
But that kind of talk ignores two things. First, we were told repeatedly by just about everyone that if there was any team the Penguins, not exactly fleet-of-foot, didn't want to take on in the playoffs, it was these New York Islanders. And yeah, they had their hands full throughout, but still never really looked to be in all that much trouble; the scores were close, yes, but they still only needed six games to put these guys out of their misery.
Second, and more important, is that — lo and behold — the second they took Marc-Andre Fleury out of the crease, they won both games. That's not to say that Tomas Vokoun really won them either game, because he didn't. He posted a shutout in Game 5 because almost any goaltender in the world (with at least one notable exception) would have, but he was also victimized on occasion by the bad defensive work that didn't help Fleury much either.
But the fact of the matter is that if you have pretensions of winning a Stanley Cup, your goaltender has to at least be league-average. The Penguins, with their galaxy of stars and excellent coach and top-quality GM, have that goal. They do not have that goaltender. People will argue that Fleury is a winner, insofar as he won a Stanley Cup. Four years ago. Since that postseason, when he posted just a .908 save percentage and a not-good 2.61 GAA, his save percentage has crept above .899 precisely zero times. This year, when he gave up 14 goals on 128 shots in four games before Bylsma dead-bolted the door to the doghouse from the outside.
Or at least, he should; there's only so many times an entire team can roll its eyes and think, "Oh no, not again," like a pot of petunias, before it's the only reasonable course of action.
I don't know how much longer we need to suffer through the narrative that Fleury is any good at all before it crumbles to sand and is scattered by the wind. That is, if it hasn't done so already behind save attempts like this and this and most notably this .
I mean, look, the fact of the matter is that apart from one good playoff run five years ago in which he fell a game short of winning the Stanley Cup for that not-quite-ready Penguins team, he has always been sub-average, and now things are getting markedly worse .
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| Posted: 05/13/2013 |
| What We Learned: Why ‘letting them play’ is nonsense in the NHL (Puck Daddy) |
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Hello, this is a feature that will run through the entire season and aims to recap the weekend’s events and boils those events down to one admittedly superficial fact or stupid opinion about each team. Feel free to complain about it.
No one is going to sit here and disagree that wide-open hockey is preferable to the brand displayed by teams trying to grind out wins.
No one likes board play. No one likes a thousand guys standing in the neutral zone during breakouts. No one — as we learned when the Rangers did it last year — likes the focus to be on blocking shots. No one likes obstruction.
For this reason, we are told so very often that the most important things officials can do in the playoffs is "let the boys play."
It's a fun concept. When the whistles are away, teams are allowed to play at 5-on-5 hockey which is obviously the best way to determine which is better. Ideally, all 60 minutes of every playoff game would be played at even strength. But the problem with this insistence on letting guys play is that when you do so, they tend to start committing penalties, and that, in turn, necessitates that, at some point, some of the infractions actually have to be called.
So while it's all well and good to say that for the sanctity of any individual game to be upheld, the referees should certainly not start blowing the whistle and sending guys to the box, the fact of the matter is that it's their jobs to do so. Guys break the rules, guys go to the box.
This, for some reason, doesn't make sense to people at all times.
Take, for example, Brian Strait's penalty on Sidney Crosby in overtime yesterday afternoon, a call which resulted in the Penguins' power play overtime game-winner. That it was called in overtime was somehow this egregious thing, according to Mike Milbury and Jeremy Roenick and a thousand thousand Internet commenters, a decision made by a referee overstepping his bounds.
Had this call — which was the right one because Strait got beat on the inside, took his hand off his stick and pulled Crosby down from behind, easy-ish fall or not — been made in the first period, the number of eyebrows it raised around the hockey universe would have been precisely zero. This is the kind of thing that typically happens when a coach puts a decent enough defenseman like Brian Strait on the ice in a high-leverage situation against a generational talent like Sidney Crosby, after all.
But that it happened in overtime was somehow outrageous.
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| Posted: 05/06/2013 |
Yahoo!Sports
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| GAME STATS |
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GP |
W |
L |
OT |
| HOME |
24 |
9 |
14 |
1 |
| AWAY |
24 |
10 |
11 |
3 |
| TOTAL |
48 |
19 |
25 |
4 |
| MAY STATS |
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GP |
W |
L |
OT |
| HOME |
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| AWAY |
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| TOTAL |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| SOUTHEAST DIVISION |
| Team |
GP |
W |
L |
OT |
PTS |
GF |
GA |
| WSH |
48 |
27 |
18 |
3 |
57 |
149 |
130 |
| WPG |
48 |
24 |
21 |
3 |
51 |
128 |
144 |
| CAR |
48 |
19 |
25 |
4 |
42 |
128 |
160 |
| TBL |
48 |
18 |
26 |
4 |
40 |
148 |
150 |
| FLA |
48 |
15 |
27 |
6 |
36 |
112 |
171 |
| EASTERN CONFERENCE |
| Team |
GP |
W |
L |
OT |
DF |
PTS |
| 1. PIT* |
48 |
36 |
12 |
0 |
46 |
72 |
| 2. MTL* |
48 |
29 |
14 |
5 |
23 |
63 |
| 3. WSH* |
48 |
27 |
18 |
3 |
19 |
57 |
| 4. BOS |
48 |
28 |
14 |
6 |
22 |
62 |
| 5. TOR |
48 |
26 |
17 |
5 |
12 |
57 |
| 6. NYR |
48 |
26 |
18 |
4 |
18 |
56 |
| 7. OTT |
48 |
25 |
17 |
6 |
12 |
56 |
| 8. NYI |
48 |
24 |
17 |
7 |
0 |
55 |
| 9. WPG |
48 |
24 |
21 |
3 |
-16 |
51 |
| 10. PHI |
48 |
23 |
22 |
3 |
-8 |
49 |
| 11. BUF |
48 |
21 |
21 |
6 |
-18 |
48 |
| 12. NJD |
48 |
19 |
19 |
10 |
-17 |
48 |
| 13. CAR |
48 |
19 |
25 |
4 |
-32 |
42 |
| 14. TBL |
48 |
18 |
26 |
4 |
-2 |
40 |
| 15. FLA |
48 |
15 |
27 |
6 |
-59 |
36 |
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