With the early season movements of Tomas Kaberle and Alexei Ponikarovsky and the Hurricanes placing Anthony Stewart on waivers Monday, all signs point to the Hurricanes making noise at the trade deadline at the end of February. Jim Rutherford has already set the bar high on the price tag for forward Tuomo Ruutu and plenty of teams are biting at the offers. Here is some early expectations...

BOSTON -- Tomas Kaberle may have finally found a home. The veteran puck-moving defenseman has been doing more moving away from the rink in the past year. After being traded from Toronto to Boston last February and winning a Cup with the Bruins, Kaberle cashed in this summer as a free agent with a three-year, $12.75-million deal in Carolina. It was a deal that raised plenty of eyebrows...

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The Carolina Hurricanes are looking to trading Tomas Kaberle according to a report on ESPN. The newly acquired defenseman signed in the offseason to a three year deal for 12.75 million dollars. The four-time NHL all-star however is not cutting it with the ‘Canes GM Jim Rutherford, who ESPN reported as he was “desperate” to get rid of Kaberle. Through the first 17...

The Montreal Canadiens have been searching for a spark on the power play since the season began. Currently 28th in the league at 11.8 percent, the team hopes it has found the match to get the fire going in Tomas Kaberle, who was acquired Friday from the Carolina Hurricanes for Jaroslav Spacek. In his debut with the team on Saturday, Kaberle picked up assists on two Canadiens goals...

It has been a busy week or so in Hab-land, hasn't it? The team was assigned a new conference, Andrei Markov's absence was prolonged and, most interestingly, Pierre Gauthier shipped Jaroslav Spacek to Carolina in exchange for Tomas Kaberle. In this week's edition of Montreal Canadiens Plus/Minus, we take a look at the acquisition of Tomas Kaberle, fan and media reaction to...

There was a surprising trade in the NHL on Dec. 9 when the Carolina Hurricanes sent defenseman Tomas Kaberle over to the Montreal Canadiens in return for fellow Czech Republic defenseman Jaroslav Spacek. The deal came as a bit of a shock to many fans and Kaberle himself since he was signed by Carolina as a free agent just a few months ago. Kaberle was in the first year of a three...

Tomas Kaberle struggled mightily at times with the Bruins, as he simply did not live up to expectations that accompanied him when he was traded to Boston last season. Those deficiencies, however, were overlooked largely in part to the Bruins' run to a Stanley Cup Final. Kaberle cashed in on that run, as well as his potential to once again be a playmaking defenseman this offseason...

Happy Monday. It seems Tomas Kaberle had the desired effect on Saturday, as he obtained two assists in a 2-1 win over the Devils. Perhaps even more importantly, his presence seemed to awaken a previously dismal man advantage. As for his one-on-one coverage, such as on Nick Palmieri's goal, that is sometimes another story. The Canadiens have managed to collect points in...

Tomas Kaberle has signed a three-year, $12.75 million contract with Carolina.

Bruins games with Montreal just got a little more interesting, not that the NHL's oldest and most bitter rivalry really needed any more storylines. Tomas Kaberle, last seen in these parts hoisting the Cup last June after frustrating fans with his penchant for coughing up pucks at inopportune times, was traded from Carolina to Montreal on Friday. Officially, the Hurricanes got veteran...

Tomas Kaberle recorded two assists, and Carey Price made a nice save on a penalty shot late in game as the Montreal Canadiens beat the New Jersey Devils 2-1. Kaberle was acquired by the Canadiens yesterday in a deal with the Hurricanes. The trade came a week after Canes GM Jim Rutherford blasted the defenseman for his poor play, so it wasn't a huge surprise.“Tomas Kaberle better...

The Carolina Hurricanes have traded defenseman Tomas Kaberle to the Montreal Canadiens for defenseman Jaroslav Spacek. The Hurricanes announced the deal Friday, a few hours before their game at Winnipeg. Carolina signed Kaberle to a three-year, $12.75 million contract in July hoping a reunion with Paul Maurice - who coached him in Toronto - would help improve the Hurricanes' defense...

Andre Markov’s misfortune was Carolina GM Jim Rutherford’s gain.Rutherford made a huge mistake signing defenseman Tomas Kaberle to a big free agency deal. Kaberle continued the listless play that confounded the Bruins last spring.Surely there was no way the Hurricanes could offload Kaberle’s contract, right?Wrong. With the hard-luck Markov needed addition recovery time after...

BOSTON -- Tomas Kaberle's stay in Boston was a short and strange one. After coveting the offensive defenseman for years, the Bruins finally landed him with a blockbuster deal at the trade deadline last February. But Kaberle never lived up to expectations, failing to inject any life in Boston's anemic power play and struggling frequently in his own zone. Still, the Bruins...

Last week's trade of defenseman Tomas Kaberle was the first sign that salary issues are going to matter as the Hurricanes go through what appears to be a dead-end season. That means more deals are bound to be in the works. General manager Jim Rutherford made it clear that dumping salary was the main reason that Kaberle needed to go. The Hurricanes picked up a fill-in with defenseman...

While a ton of free agents have signed new contracts over the past 2 days, there are still some intriguing names that are still available. One of those names is Tomas Kaberle. In some ways, it is strange to see that he is still on the market; but at the same time, he’s not exactly coming off the best year of his career.TSN has reported that several teams have expressed interest...

Last week the Carolina Hurricanes traded veteran defenseman Tomas Kaberle to the Montreal Canadiens in exchange for another defender Jaroslav Spacek. The move was purely a salary cap move by the Hurricanes. Spacek carries a $3.833 million cap hit and will be an unrestricted free agent at the end of this season. While Kaberle has a $4.25 cap for two more seasons. #bbpBox_145185346634776576...

Not long after the Bruins nabbed Joe Corvo away from Raleigh, the Carolina Hurricanes made their move, signing Tomas Kaberle away for three years and $12.75 million. Considering the deals that were flying around when the free agency period opened on July 1, Kaberle’s looks fairly reasonable. He stays close to the annual average he was making under his last deal (signed with Toronto...

Chip Alexander is a reporter who covers the Carolina Hurricanes for the (Raleigh) News & Observer. He's definitely good at his job, and he even has a nifty Twitter handle (@ice_chip). All that being said, I'm not sure he watched the NHL playoffs. Had he watched the playoffs, he would've known that the Bruins won the Stanley Cup in spite of their epic power-play struggles...

from Chip Alexander of the News & Observer, Tomas Kaberle slipped into a Carolina Hurricanes sweater for the first time Thursday and skated with some of his new teammates at Raleigh Center Ice. In his many years with the Toronto Maple Leafs, the defenseman wore No. 15. Tuomo Ruutu has that uniform number with the Canes, but Kaberle said he doesn’t mind simply reversing...

It's been feast or famine for the Hurricanes in the past decade. When Carolina does get into the playoffs, it usually hangs around for a while. The Hurricanes won the Cup in 2006, reached the Final in 2002 and made the conference final in 2009. But they didn't even make the playoffs in the other six seasons in that span, including each of the last two years. Carolina came...

The Montreal Canadiens acquired Tomas Kaberle from the Carolina Hurricanes on Friday for fellow defenseman Jaroslav Spacek. Despite posting four points in his last two games, Kaberle has disappointed during his first season with the Hurricanes. The 33-year-old has collected just nine assists and is a minus-12 in 29 games. The 37-year-old Spacek, who is currently on injured reserve...

Tomas Kaberle returned to the Garden last night for the second time this season, with his third team in seven months. Kaberle,...

It was exactly one year ago today that Toronto Maple Leafs general manager Brian Burke faced an important deadline, having until midnight to trade veteran defenceman Tomas Kaberle. Once the clock struck 12, Kaberle's no movement clause would kick in. The veteran defenceman would enter into the final year of his five-year deal with the Leafs and the team ran the risk of Kaberle...