The dates are up at carolinahurricanes.com/college for the coming season's College Nights. If you are a club team player or manager and are interested in scheduling your club for an intermission shootout for any of these games, contact Paul Strand with the Hurricanes: pauls@carolinahurricanes.com
It's really a great thing that the organ-eye-zation invites local college clubs to do shootouts on the promotional college nights. I've said it before and will say it again - there are countless numbers of potential supporters that would never even know X school has an ice hockey team. Whether alumni, casual fan or you share the love of hockey - the exposure provided by these is an outstanding way to fill you in.
This took place during last season, but perhaps seeing the Wolfpack win this can soothe the pain of watching NCSU score 13 points in the first half at the Dean Dome on Saturday. Ouch.
Next Canes' college night - Tuesday January 22 vs. NY Islanders. Be there.
OK look, the Hurricanes didn't get embarrassed tonight. They played alright but it was just one of those nights that the puck hits the net -- just not the one with goalposts around it (the big one that blocks your view and saves your dome-piece).
The 1st goal should have been blown dead before it got behind Ward-O.
The 2nd goal was completely Cam's fault. He thought he had it but he pooped out a rebound and got caught trying to play it while a Flyer had an open net on the other side.
3rd goal was a top-shelf beauty and a collective groan from the home crowd (which was a large one).
1/2 way through the 3rd, the Canes finally had a crisp-passing possession and Stiller capitalized with a goal that made it somewhat interesting, but to no avail.
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During the 1st intermission, to coincide with "College Night", the Duke and East Carolina club hockey teams faced off in a shootout. This made my effin night. ECU won 2-1 on 4 shots.
"Hey! Hey! Hey! E.C.! You look so good to me! Hey! Hey! Hey! E.C. You look so good to me!"
The Philadelphia Flyers & New York Rangers made the two biggest splashes today in the free agency pool. NYR snagged up both Drury & Scotty Gomez while the Flyers added Daniel Briere to an already bolstered lineup featuring recently acquired Kimmo Timonen & Scottie Hartnell. I'd hate to see what the average salary rate is now after the day's hefty checkbooks have been busted out. Inflation is a bitch!
Carolina announced the signing of the very affordable winger Jeff Hamilton with a 2-year deal at $800K per. Sure, you may have never heard of him before today either:
But if he can win shootouts in a Canes jersey:
He's already worth his weight to me seeing as the boys laid the goose egg last season in shootout wins. It's exciting in any measure to have new blood around here. Jeff Hamilton is a fresh face that will hopefully ignite the team and make the contributions that a Trevor Letowski could not quite accomplish last season.
Upon first looking at Jeff and his head gear, all I could immediately think of was The Empire Strikes Back:
