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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 »
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
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...
Where does Hurricanes’ ‘Category 5’ comeback in Game 2 rank in franchise playoff history?
Perhaps the most surprising thing about the Carolina Hurricanes’ comeback from three goals down to win Game 2 on Monday was how unexceptional it was. They have done this kind … Click to Conti...
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/nhl/carolina-hurricanes/article287934450.html#storylink=rss
With five unanswered goals, Carolina Hurricanes add to their history of playoff shocks
To one pair of eyes, watching from the owner’s box, this looked all too familiar. In his time with the Carolina Hurricanes, Eric Staal was part of any number of … Click to Continue »
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Unhappy Hurricanes take 1-0 lead into Game 2 against satisfied Islanders
It may say something about the relative strengths and expectations of the teams involved that the Carolina Hurricanes spent Sunday figuring out how they can play better and the New … Click to C...
Finally, Frederik Andersen was where he was supposed to be as Hurricanes grab Game 1
There was no guarantee, some five months ago, when he was shut down to deal with a frightening and unexpected blood-clotting issue, that Frederik Andersen would be around and available … Click ...
The Islanders, again? Yes, but things figure to be more entertaining this time around.
It feels like an inviolable rule of the postseason that the Carolina Hurricanes so rarely get to explore new territory, and so often keep running into the same people in … Click to Continue »
Why the NCAA crusade against college player prop bets is the right cause at the right time
Faced with epochal change and a barrage of lawsuits, the NCAA needs to find a win somewhere, anywhere. “We need to put some points on the board,” as NCAA president … Click to Continue »
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Basketball schools unite: What’s good for the Big East is good for the ACC and vice versa.
For the second year in a row, the ACC was not represented on the final Monday of the college basketball season, despite confounding all expectations in the postseason. Not all … Click to Contin...
Wolfpack’s run restored NC State to prominence. Can the next group capitalize?
The world of college basketball kept spinning Sunday. Connecticut and Purdue practiced in an emptied State Farm Stadium ahead of Monday night’s title game. N.C. State spent the day flying … C...
The end was always out there, lurking. NC State held it off as long as it could
The end was coming at some point. It was always out there, lurking in the shadows, occasionally showing its face but mostly kept at bay, game after game after game. … Click to Continue »
On NC State’s miracle run: A free throw, a buzzer beater and a world spun off its axis
A butterfly flaps its wings in Hong Kong. A strand of DNA mutates and replicates and replicates. Ninety-two million miles from earth, the sun spits out a gout of radiation. … Click to Continue ...
As Wolfpack’s unlikely run came to an end, one last unexpected hero nearly emerged
So much of N.C. State’s run through the postseason defied the imaginable, so it’s fair to say that no one three weeks ago would have expected a Breon Pass heat-check … Click to Continue »
The Wolfpack screams for NC State’s man of good humor after road wins
The folks at the ice-cream place next to the arena in Dallas, a prominent national chain, didn’t believe Chris Zupko. It’s not that hard to blame them, really. This guy … Click to Continue ...
It took a lot of pieces to build NC State’s puzzle. Michael O’Connell took longer to fit.
In the wake of N.C. State’s two wins in Pittsburgh, someone texted Michael O’Connell about going to the “second weekend” of the NCAA tournament, and that specific phrase jogged a … Clic...
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The forgotten benching that turned DJ Burns’ season around — and NC State’s as well
There were no signs of a change in the morning shootaround at what used to be called the Carrier Dome, or during warmups before N.C. State played at Syracuse. So … Click to Continue »
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/college/article287305110.html#storylink=rss
Dust for fingerprints on NC State’s historic basketball runs and you’ll find Debbie Yow’s
Debbie Yow wasn’t in Portland on Sunday. Nor was she in Dallas. She was at home, with her husband, watching on television, but her presence was felt in both places. … Click to Continue »
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NC State, desperate for basketball success for so long, suddenly has more than its share
Kevin Keatts paused at the top of the ladder. There could have been any number of things going through his mind as he turned away from the rim to face … Click to Continue »
Duke’s toughness was tested, again. This time, the Blue Devils were not found wanting
L.J. Cryer dribbled into the heart of Duke’s defense. He looked around for help that didn’t come. He never saw Tyrese Proctor coming. Proctor stole the ball right out of … Click to Continue...
Duke-NC State may not be Elite 8 grudge match we expected, but it’s the one we deserve
And here we are. If you followed this ACC basketball season to its logical conclusion, of course you’d end up with Duke and N.C. State in a steel-cage death match … Click to Continue »
Wave carrying NC State hasn’t broken. It’s taken Pack within a win of the Final Four
The wave hasn’t broken yet. N.C. State is crouched in the tube, swept along by powerful forces it might not fully understand but will happily enjoy as long as they … Click to Continue »
On a team full of stars and shooters, Mark Mitchell is Duke’s most indispensable player
It took almost a year for Mark Mitchell to go back and re-watch a game he didn’t even play. It was that hard. Mitchell missed Duke’s second-round loss to Tennessee … Click to Continue »
The man who couldn’t retire: Wolfpack broadcaster Gary Hahn keeps calling his final game
When Gary Hahn announced, in October, that this would be his 34th and final season broadcasting N.C. State football and men’s basketball games, he had long resigned himself to the … Click to ...
Duke, NC State bandwagons full again after making the most of March
Kevin Keatts warned D.J. Burns to be nice, because he knew they were venturing into dangerous territory, up there in the bright lights, feeling good about themselves. In the wake … Click to Con...
UNC, Arizona on collision course? Sometimes, basketball gods know what’s good for ratings
If you were the type to gamble on college basketball — and you really shouldn’t, unless it’s with someone else’s money — then it seems a safe bet that North … Click to Continue »
Hurricanes owner Tom Dundon explains how, and why, Carolina made its trade deadline splash
In the week leading up to the trade deadline, the Carolina Hurricanes poked around on Elias Pettersson and were looking at several potential moves. Jake Guentzel was just one of … Click to Cont...