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Gambling ruined Aaron Ward’s life. Now it’s everywhere around him as he tries to rebuild
The gambling ads are everywhere. On the boards. On the ice. During the commercials. In the middle of the broadcasts. When the Carolina Hurricanes played at PNC Arena during the … Click to Conti...
Hurricanes’ inevitable personnel changes an opportunity to reassess style, philosophy
The heart of the roster won’t change. Sebastian Aho. Jaccob Slavin. Andrei Svechnikov. Jordan Staal. Brent Burns. Those key players will still be at the core of the Carolina Hurricanes … Clic...
From two up to over and out: Why Hurricanes’ Game 6 collapse is worst loss in franchise history
The puck just sat there. Right at the post. Chris Kreider saw it. Frederik Andersen did not. That’s the game. That’s the series. That’s the season. The Carolina Hurricanes’ season … Cli...
Hurricanes captain Jordan Staal didn’t win NHL leadership award, but deserves recognition
If ever there was a player due to score, one whose line had dominated every matchup it had been asked to shoulder without reward, it was Jordan Staal. And when … Click to Continue »
Hurricanes fight their way back home, where they can really apply pressure to Rangers
Maybe the New York Rangers knew they were coming back for Game 6. After the Carolina Hurricanes’ win Saturday in Game 4, the Rangers left all of their motivational posters … Click to Continue...
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/nhl/carolina-hurricanes/article288488959.html#storylink=rss
Goalie rotation got Hurricanes this far. Why Pyotr Kochetkov is right choice for Game 5
There are segments of the hockey world that would be aghast at the mere inclination to change a lineup after winning an elimination game. Don’t change your lines, your goalie, … Click to Cont...
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That’s what a power-play goal looks like? For a while, Hurricanes may have forgotten
The moment the puck went in, under the crossbar and over Igor Shesterkin, Brady Skjei’s face was awash with emotion, even before his teammates swarmed over him. But what emotion? … Click to C...
If Canes have the ‘high-end stuff’ to beat good teams in playoffs, it’s time to prove it
With everything else going on, when the New York Rangers scored in overtime on a bang-bang play out of the corner, Peter Laviolette just knew the game was over. It … Click to Continue »
Backs against the wall, Hurricanes can’t talk their way around how they got there
Polish it up, put a pretty face on it, cook the stats, cherry-pick the highlights. It’s what you do after you lose a playoff game by one goal for the … Click to Continue »
Charles Lee is the Charlotte Hornets’ new head coach. Was it the right choice?
The Charlotte Hornets did the safe thing Thursday when they hired Boston Celtics assistant Charles Lee to be their new head coach. From the day that Steve Clifford stepped down … Click to Conti...
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/charlotte-hornets/article288430635.html#storylink=rss
Inside the life of a PGA Tour caddie: Tiger, Rory and how to win at Wells Fargo
The life of an elite PGA Tour caddie has always been somewhat mysterious to me. There they are, always two steps behind the golfer getting the headlines. The top caddies … Click to Continue »
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/golf/article288225275.html#storylink=rss
NHL players slow to adopt neck guards. Why one Hurricanes defender wears one anyway
To the naked eye, it just looks like Dylan Coghlan is wearing a mock turtleneck under his pads, like European hockey players of old, Alexei Yashin or Tomas Plekanec. It’s … Click to Continue ...
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/nhl/carolina-hurricanes/article288192700.html#storylink=rss
Hurricanes return home with questions instead of wins after letting Rangers off the hook
Instead of a road win, or a power-play goal, or much of anything to show for their commendable effort in the first two games of this series, the Carolina Hurricanes … Click to Continue »
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/nhl/carolina-hurricanes/article288390840.html#storylink=rss
Rest as a weapon: Why the Hurricanes have abandoned one of hockey’s oldest traditions
It’s a long mid-day bus ride from Madison Square (the garden, not The Garden) through the Lincoln Tunnel to Newark, a place where the Carolina Hurricanes have much fonder postseason … Click t...
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/nhl/carolina-hurricanes/article288334275.html#storylink=rss
For Hurricanes, so much has changed since 2022, but not disadvantage on special teams
If all you heard was the booing every time Tony DeAngelo touched the puck, or the “Tony sucks” chant in the third period, how would you know DeAngelo had left … Click to Continue »
Hurricanes-Rangers playoff series is a generational grudge match for the Drury family
Jack Drury was still a couple weeks away from his 9th birthday when his uncle Chris came to Chicago with the New York Rangers. On other visits, Jack got to … Click to Continue »
How the Hurricanes’ Stanley Cup-winning coach, captain became winner-take-all rivals
The quintessential mind-meld moment between Peter Laviolette and Rod Brind’Amour came at one of their lowest points. The Game 6 loss in Edmonton in 2006 was one of the Carolina … Click to Con...
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/nhl/carolina-hurricanes/article288277385.html#storylink=rss
How the Hurricanes’ Stanley Cup-winning coach, captain became winner-take-all rivals
The quintessential mind-meld moment between Peter Laviolette and Rod Brind’Amour came at one of their lowest points. The Game 6 loss in Edmonton in 2006 was one of the Carolina … Click to Con...
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/nhl/carolina-hurricanes/article288320625.html#storylink=rss
How Hurricanes goalie Frederik Andersen’s career shows unwillingness to bend, be broken
The Masterton Trophy, sort of like the Lady Byng, is one of those honors that exist only in the NHL and remains open to endless interpretation. It’s not supposed to … Click to Continue »
Are the Hurricanes, coach Rod Brind’Amour at a contract impasse? Here’s what we know
With nine potential unrestricted free agents this summer, including longtime stalwarts like Brett Pesce, Brady Skjei, Jordan Martinook and Teuvo Teravainen, these playoffs were always going to ha...
‘Guys don’t talk about this stuff.’ After a tragedy, can an NC tennis tourney change that?
Chuck Reiney seemed to have everything a man could want. He had been married to his wife, Megan, for 25 years. They had raised three thriving boys, who were all … Click to Continue »
The Hurricanes’ first-round playoff series win over the Islanders set a new standard
So here’s where you stop taking it one day, one game at a time, where that old fallback cliche goes to die. Once the handshakes were complete, another first-round series … Click to Continue �...
Why the Hurricanes should be wary of their 5-on-5 play against the Islanders in Round 1
Just keep on keeping on, the Carolina Hurricanes are basically saying, as they try to close out the New York Islanders in Game 5 on Tuesday. After all, they’re up … Click to Continue »
Why a few of the Carolina Hurricanes’ top prospects are along for the NHL playoff ride
Jackson Blake is too young to remember when his father was New York Islanders royalty, so he has no personal ties to his new team’s opponent in the first round … Click to Continue »
After Game 4 double-OT loss, Hurricanes must seize next chance to close out Islanders
Whatever else happened, the opportunity was there. Jesperi Kotkaniemi was denied an empty net by the shaft of Semyon Varlamov’s stick. Jordan Staal, set loose down Broadway by Teuvo Teravainen,...
A Hurricanes sweep would be more than a luxury for a team already looking to the end
Dmitry Orlov watched from the bench in a sweatshirt and shorts as eight of his teammates practiced in an empty UBS Arena on Friday, only four of whom even participated … Click to Continue »
Sign of the times: Carolina Panthers owner David Tepper is at it once more
On the first day of the NFL Draft, I was in Detroit talking with a Michigan reporter when he asked me about Carolina Panthers owner David Tepper. Tepper had been … Click to Continue »
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/nfl/carolina-panthers/article288035650.html#storylink=rss
Hurricanes have yet to play a complete game against the Islanders. They’re still up 3-0
Whatever Rod Brind’Amour’s instructions were for the third period, the world will never know. The Carolina Hurricanes spent the period under siege, desperately clinging to a one-goal lead, re...
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/nhl/carolina-hurricanes/article287943480.html#storylink=rss
UNC QB Drake Maye is about to get drafted by an NFL team. But which one? Rumors abound.
Drake Maye is almost done with one of the weirdest parts of every high-profile football player’s career — the long and somewhat awkward run-up to the NFL Draft. By Thursday … Click to Conti...
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/nfl/article287830030.html#storylink=rss
Summa cum loud: Hurricanes’ Seth Jarvis leans into status as an honorary Harvard grad
When Tripp Tracy was asked to speak at a meeting of the Harvard Club of the Research Triangle last week, he naturally invited the Carolina Hurricanes’ two other Harvard Men … Click to Continu...