News and Notes Thread IX: Paper Bags and LaRose Colored Glasses

[Carolinas Identity*]

http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/10...assigned-to-checkers.html?sp=/99/103/400/120/

Chip is officially mailing it in now.

Can we call up Al Jefferson then? We need Center help until Jordan is back.

 

[TheOllieC]

Ask and you shall receive, Kev:

http://hurricanes.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=736775

the comments on that page are so facebook

 

[nobuddy]

Ok, that we lost 2 big centers, why so many GA? We have Ward!!

 

[nobuddy]

When Eric Staal is one of your best players, you have a problem. He's not bad, but he NEVER should have been named Captain. That should have gone to Whitney, but he didn't have the celeb status. Guess what? Celeb status doesn't win games, and now the Canes are a joke saddled with high $ contracts for sub-par players like Ward and Staal whose best days are long behind them. Methinks it might be time to shuffle the deck among the "lynchpin" players; the team has gone downhill ever since Staal was given his title.

 

[What the Faulk]

We need a @CanesTakes twitter in the style of @PFTCommenter to become popular

 

[Unsustainable]

Let's say we draft Eichel, he currently wears #9, though Howes jersey is retired with the Whale and not with the Hurricanesp, should he get 9?

 

[Carolinas Identity*]

Let's say we draft Eichel, he currently wears #9, though Howes jersey is retired with the Whale and not with the Hurricanesp, should he get 9?

What's scarier is if we draft McDavid, cause Stormy wears #97.

 

[FlyingSquirrels]

Let's say we draft Eichel, he currently wears #9, though Howes jersey is retired with the Whale and not with the Hurricanesp, should he get 9?

yep.

 

[the halleJOKEL]

What's scarier is if we draft McDavid, cause Stormy wears #97.

stormy has been waiting 18 years for this day

it is destiny

 

[What the Faulk]

They just brought up the Gordie Howe thing on the last broadcast and with him in poor healthy, I wouldn't count on it. Maybe he should just double his number. Wait, that's not gonna work either. Well how about 19? This team needs a franchise player wearing that number.

It would be so Carolina to force McDavid to change because of Stormy

 

[nobuddy]

What am I missing that wouldn't allow Eichel to wear #18?

Jay McClement's great legacy?

 

[What the Faulk]

Radek Dvorak's.

Speaking of Malone (I think it was this thread, anyway, I don't care), his next game will tie him for the most among all Brads to ever play as a Hurricane.

 

[bluedevil58*]

Ok, that we lost 2 big centers, why so many GA? We have Ward!!

#HASBROWN#: Inwardwetrust

 

[Navin R Slavin]

stormy has been waiting 18 years for this day

it is destiny

Omg omg omg omg omg

I SEE IT NOW

 

[tomdundo]

Omg omg omg omg omg

I SEE IT NOW

The fans walk in to see a bizarre looking sacrificial altar at center ice. Stormy is carried in, and placed upon the altar...

 

[the halleJOKEL]

happy halloween

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

I can't speak for everyone, but I for one would be *POd* if he did, especially after three full days off in Vancouver last week. They got a day to travel, it's time to get back to work.

Plus, in getting zero points the past four games, they were outscored 18-5, so it's not like they're tired.

You can rest easy Kev. They are practicing every day.

http://hurricanes.nhl.com/club/page.htm?id=45167

 

[Anton Babchuk]

happy halloween

 

[nobuddy]

happy halloween

happy 'alloween to u guise 2

 

[JClaus33]

That's tomorrow silly people

 

[Vagrant]

The fans walk in to see a bizarre looking sacrificial altar at center ice. Stormy is carried in, and placed upon the altar...

AND CANIACS YOU ARE....

Have Mike Commodore come out in a warrior costume.

 

[nobuddy]

AND CANIACS YOU ARE....

Have Mike Commodore come out in a warrior costume.

Commodore raises his sword

The crowd cheers

They know what is coming

They know for every hog-like mascot the franchise sacrifices they get free Bojangles'

That used to be only for powerplay goals

But that was back when there were powerplay goals

 

[bleedgreen]

When Eric Staal is one of your best players, you have a problem. He's not bad, but he NEVER should have been named Captain. That should have gone to Whitney, but he didn't have the celeb status. Guess what? Celeb status doesn't win games, and now the Canes are a joke saddled with high $ contracts for sub-par players like Ward and Staal whose best days are long behind them. Methinks it might be time to shuffle the deck among the "lynchpin" players; the team has gone downhill ever since Staal was given his title.

I attribute it more to his contract. A smaller market team will always struggle to put good players around a 9 million dollar guy. The moment he signed the contract we were going to start eroding. A couple of years ago we stepped up the money, and gave it to the only two people that would take it in jstaal and semin, but we still don't have the depth we had before the staal contract imo.

I really think this team has to be more like Nashville or Arizona, if you're gonna have a big contract guy it has to be a dman like weber. We should probably cap our forwards at 6 million and just have more of them instead of one star guy who is supposed to carry a load no man could carry. I agree staal isn't an ideal captain, but I think the long term effects of his and Ward's contract have contributed more to the toilet spiral this team has been in over the last few years.

 

[Francis10]

Just seen Loktionov is talking to 5 NHL teams about returning. Wonder if we are 1 of them.

 

[Blueline Bomber]

Can't imagine we're on that list. Having zero wins a month into the season will hurt your ability to sign late-signing FAs