Core-focused 'Canes shaping up well for offseason
Could the Hurricanes be a team that spends to the NHL's salary-cap maximum next season?
With the league's salary cap set to drop by almost 10 percent to 64.3 million in 2013-14, the 'Canes, generally a team with a smaller payroll in years past, are moving closer toward a four-year dry spell without a postseason appearance.
Next season, gone will be the former Southeast...
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Carolina Hurricanes failed to Ward off disaster
Carolina Hurricanes goaltender Cam Ward ranks among the National Hockey League’s most valuable players. We know this because his team collapsed after Ward suffered a MCL strain. The Hurricanes have lost four consecutive games overall and seven straight at home.
They went 1-10-1 in their last 12 games overall to fall six points behind the Washington Capitals in the Southeast Division...
Hurricanes still missing rewards for efforts
RALEIGH, N.C. -- Kirk Muller says its about time his team is rewarded for its recent work.
The Carolina Hurricanes have lost nine of their last 10 games and are falling further from the playoff picture. The teams saving grace, however, is that they play in the fledgling Southeast Division, which may have just one team qualify for the playoffs this season: Its champion.
So for the...
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April 03, 2013
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Ellis must step up in goalie Ward's absence
For a goalie of Cam Ward's stature, there have been some uncomfortable moments this season.
Mostly, they have come in terms of Ward's having to fight for his starts something the 29-year-old has not had to do since his rookie season of 2005-06, when he ultimately led the Carolina Hurricanes to the Stanley Cup, winning the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP in the process...
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March 04, 2013
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Hurricanes' Ward out 6-8 weeks
The Carolina Hurricanes say goalie Cam Ward will miss six to eight weeks with a sprained knee ligament.
The team announced Ward's diagnosis Monday and said the former All-Star goalie will not require surgery.
The team says Ward suffered a third-degree sprain to his medial collateral ligament midway through the second period of Sunday night's 3-2 win at Florida.
He hurt...
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March 04, 2013
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Cam Ward out 6-8 weeks with knee injury
The Carolina Hurricanes say goalie Cam Ward will miss six to eight weeks with a sprained knee ligament.
The team announced Ward's diagnosis Monday and said the former All-Star goalie will not require surgery.
The team says Ward suffered a third-degree sprain to his medial collateral ligament midway through the second period of Sunday night's 3-2 win at Florida.
He hurt...
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March 04, 2013
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Cam Ward Gives Up Embarrassing Goal on Max Pacioretty Dump-In From Behind Red Line (Video)
Cam Ward didn’t have much fun in Montreal on Monday night. Not only did Ward and the Carolina Hurricanes leave with a loss to the Canadiens, Ward suffered a pretty embarrassing moment in the process.
With the Habs already leading 2-0 late in the third, Ward gave up arguably the worst goal of the season. Montreal forward Max Pacioretty carried the puck into the neutral zone and...
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Cam Ward allows goal from behind the red line
Montreal Canadiens forward Max Pacioretty has had a rough start to the season. He had to have an emergency appendectomy, was allegedly bitten by Mikhail Grabovsky and then endured a laceration to his ribs from a skate. Pacrioretty had been unable to find the back of the net this year until fate gave him a lucky bounce. Late in the 3rd period he dumped a puck in from just behind...
Wild seek to stop the shutouts Saturday
Cam Ward was at his best during the Carolina Hurricanes' last game, helping stymie one of the NHL's most formidable teams.
A matchup with the league's lowest-scoring club could help the Hurricanes build on their impressive effort.
Visiting Carolina will be without second-leading scorer Jeff Skinner as it tries to add to the Minnesota Wild's recent woes on Saturday...
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March 17, 2012
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Hurricanes Goalie Cam Ward Credited With Goal By Default (Video)
In Carolina’s 4-2 victory over the New Jersey Devils on Monday night, Hurricanes netminder Cam Ward was credited with a goal after an errant pass from Ilya Kovalchuk to Adam Henrique scooted down the ice and into the Devils’ empty net. Since Ward was the last member of the Hurricanes to touch the puck, he [...]
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