The Top Of The AHL Standings
The AHL season has been a very disjointed one. When the NHL season began in January, many of the top players in the league left for the NHL. That changed the fortunes of the top teams in the league.
When I last looked at standings in mid-December the lockout was still underway. The Syracuse Crunch (Tampa Bay Lightning affiliate) was leading the lead. They were in a race...
The Final Cuts
Earlier on Wednesday, the Carolina Hurricanes made the decision to put both Brett Sutter and Andreas Nodl on waivers, meaning that the Canes are very close to trimming their roster down to the 23 player limit. Assuming they put Tuomo Ruutu on Long-Term Injured Reserve, the Canes would need to make one more cut to reach the limit and if they don't, then two players need to go...
Checkers win home opener, but lose two of three on the week
Even with the Hurricanes currently locked out, there is a lot of excitement in the air for hockey in the Carolinas right now and most of it surrounding the club's AHL affiliate, the Charlotte Checkers. Heading into this weekend, Charlotte was riding high with a 6-2-0-1 record before even playing a game at home and were getting some absurd production from a few players who many...
Charlotte Checkers Weekend Report: at Grand Rapids & Peoria
How good were the Checkers this weekend? Let's see, they won all three of their games (on the road nonetheless), outscored their opponents 16-4, outshot them 101-70, went 8/16 on the powerplay and were perfect on the penalty kill. I should also mention that all but five players who suited up for the Checkers this weekend recorded at least one point and have four players who are...
The Ripple Effect
Over the last couple of days, the Carolina Hurricanes AHL affiliate in Charlotte released their final roster cuts and with training camp being more populated now due to the NHL lockout, there were bound to be a few surprises. Out of the five players who didn't make the team, the most surprising names on that list were Justin Shugg, Brody Sutter and John Muse. All three of these...
Corvo returns to Hurricanes
Defenseman Joe Corvo will return to the Carolina Hurricanes for the third time, signing a one-year deal with the club Sunday. The Hurricanes also re-signed goaltender Justin Peters for two years and forward Brett Sutter to a one-year contract. Corvo, 35, played in 75 games for the Boston Bruins this past season and had four goals and 21 assists and was plus-10. During his nine...
Hurricanes 2011-12 Scoring Chances by Line Combinations
We might be finished with our player scoring chance reviews for the season but there are still plenty of things we can do with the data to further analyze the Hurricanes performance this year. One thing we looked at was each player's WOWY reports to show how dependent one player was on another but the scope for that is somewhat limited for analyzing forwards. You get an idea...
Brett Sutter 2011-12 Scoring Chances
The Hurricanes sure like to keep the families connected. Not only do they have two Staal's in their organization but three members of the Sutter family tree as well. The one who most fans know about is Brandon Sutter, who plays an important role as the team's third line center, but one who the national media may not know about is his cousin, Brett Sutter. There's a very...
Hurricanes Scoring Chances Adjusted for Zone Starts
Whenever I post the team's scoring chance numbers at the end of the month, it is important to remember that those are raw numbers and every player is used in different situations. For that reason, I make sure to include their offensive zone start percentage to give some context for their situation. For instance, Brandon Sutter and Patrick Dwyer are constantly sent out in the...
Carolina Hurricanes Scoring Chances Through January
The Hurricanes finished January with a record of 5-3-4 which is the first winning record they have had in a month this season. Definitely a huge milestone for a team that has struggled as much as the Canes have this year. Things do seem to be getting better under Kirk Muller, though. They are winning slightly more games, they earned points in over half of their games in January and...
Hurricanes vs.Capitals 1/15/12 Complete Coverage
I was not able to live-track the Hurricanes-Capitals game on January 15th because I was at the game and it's taken me longer than usual to get the scoring chances posted for this game because I was planning on doing something special with this. Remember my post where I tracked zone exits for certain shifts to see how effective certain defensemen were at completing breakout passes...
Gameday 45 - Hurricanes
Carolina Hurricanes (16-24-7) @ Pittsburgh Penguins (23-17-4)
7:00 pm/et
TV: ROOT, FS-CR
Consol Energy Center - Pittsburgh, PA
The Pittsburgh Penguins run against the Southeast Division continues. The Pens outscored their opponents 10-5 in their last three games against Washington, Florida and Tampa Bay. Now it's Carolina's turn. A win...
Carolina Hurricanes vs. Boston Bruins 1/14/12 Scoring Chances
Tonight's dramatic 3-2 win over the Bruins reminded me a lot of some games that the Hurricanes would win last season. They had a lot of trouble creating offense and were kept in their own zone for most of the game but what kept them in it was the great play of Cam Ward. He stopped 33 of 35 shots, 21 of which came from a dangerous scoring area and looked a lot more like the goalie...
Carolina Hurricanes vs. Tampa Bay Lightning 1/12/12 Scoring Chances
In what has been a mainly forgettable year for the Hurricanes, yesterday's 5-2 win over the Lightning was a nice change of pace. They built on an early lead, chased a goalie killed penalties and got a dominant effort from their first line. Tuomo Ruutu said during the intermission that they played their best first period all season and it's hard to argue that since they scored...
Game 45 Preview: Hurricanes at Lightning
Carolina Hurricanes (14-23-7) at Tampa Bay Lightning (17-20-4)Tampa Bay Times Forum, 7:30 p.m.TV: FS-Carolinas, Sun Sports
If you can believe it, the Hurricanes have yet another player on the shelf with Jaro Spacek possibly being out for tonight's game after being hit by a puck in Tuesday's game against the Flyers. This means that another lineup change as been made with...
Carolina Hurricanes vs. Buffalo Sabers 1/6/12 Scoring Chances
The Hurricanes 4-2 win over the Sabers featured a lot of back and-forth action, great goaltending and some pretty spotty defensive play. Put all of that together and you got yourself a pretty exciting hockey game. The Canes had one of their sloppier performances of the year but good special teams, goaltending and a couple of mistakes on Buffalo's end is what helped Carolina win...
Hurricanes Recall Brett Sutter from Charlotte
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Carolina Hurricanes Scoring Chances Through November
Now that I've got the retrospect out of the way, we can go forward and look at the team's scoring chance numbers through two months of play. This will be a little different from what I did last month as I'm going to be looking at a few different things, one of which being adjusted scoring chance information. One of the biggest issues with scoring chances is that there...
Hurricanes claim Nodl, send down Brett Sutter
The Carolina Hurricanes claimed right wing Andreas Nodl on waivers from Philadelphia and reassigned forward Brett Sutter to their AHL affiliate in Charlotte.
'Canes claim Nodl on waivers, send down Sutter
The Carolina Hurricanes claimed right wing Andreas Nodl on waivers from Philadelphia and reassigned forward Brett Sutter to their AHL affiliate in Charlotte.
The team announced the moves Tuesday before its game against Florida in the coaching debut for Kirk Muller.
The 24-year-old Nodl had one assist in 12 games with the Flyers this season while averaging roughly 10 minutes of...
'Canes claim Nodl on waivers, send down Sutter
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- The Carolina Hurricanes claimed right wing Andreas Nodl on waivers from Philadelphia and reassigned forward Brett Sutter to their AHL affiliate in Charlotte.
Brett Sutter reassigned
Forward Brett Sutter has been reassigned to the Charlotte Checkers (AHL).
Sutter, 24, had played in each of Carolina’s four games after being recalled from Charlotte on Nov. 21, and now has three assists in eight games this season with the Hurricanes.
Sutter was named Charlotte’s captain prior to the season, and has two goals and two assists (4 points) in 14 games this year with the Checkers.
Hurricanes Reassign Brett Sutter to Charlotte
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Week 7 Performances
Another week has past and the Canes managed to only win one game and pick up three points in the standings. All thee losses were by one goal (I usually don't count empty netters) and you could say that the Canes had a chance to win every game this week but a closer look at their performance proves otherwise. After a week where they actually outplayed most of their opponent'...
Matthew Barry: Turkey Week Trades? WHAT Trades?
Turkey Week Trades??
There hasnât been an impact Turkey Week deal since Joe Thornton was done thanking the Bruins for the great season he was having in Boston and was then promptly traded on November 30th of 2005. Hereâs a walk down memory lane:
2010
Carolina trades Anton Babchuk/Tom Kostopolous to Carolina for Ian White and Brett Sutter
Ducks trade Ryan Carter...
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