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Staal Family Press Conference

by Alanah McGinley on 10/16/07 at 04:36 PM ET
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This morning, Eric, Marc and Jordan Staal participated in an NHL teleconference with their father Henry.

The player below will allow you to hear the whole conference here on KK (*or you can download the mp3 from here).

note1: written transcript of the conference will be available below the player, as soon as it becomes available. (update: now available below)

note2: photo of Eric, Marc, Jared and Jordan originally found on CBC.ca

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Canes Get The Start They Wanted

by Paul on 10/15/07 at 05:42 PM ET
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from Eric Duhatschek of the Globe and Mail,

“If you look at our season last year, towards the end of the season, we were fighting for our playoff lives,” said Hurricanes’ goaltender Cam Ward. “You’d hate to look back at your early season, thinking or wishing that you’d had a better game here or there. Every game is huge. It’s not just all about the second half or the last week, trying to get into the playoffs. It’s about what you do the entire season that really matters.

“To get off to a great start, it does help the confidence of the team.”

Ward, the Conn Smythe Trophy winner in the ‘06 playoffs and the reigning player-of-the-week, is undefeated in regulation thus far.

“Right from Day One in training camp, you could definitely see the guys were a lot more excited and a lot hungrier,” he said.

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Canes Could Use Offensive Dman

by Paul on 10/13/07 at 10:40 AM ET
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from the News & Observer,

“Not necessarily, because basically the defense we have now is the same or equivalent to the defense that we had when we had the good year two years ago,” he said. “With that being said, our team would be improved with another defenseman that can move the puck.

“It would help our transition game. It would potentially give us another defenseman for the second unit of the power play.”

Adding some offensive punch on the blue line has been near the top of Rutherford’s agenda since the end of last season.

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Kid Rock Gets Exact Replica Stanley Cup Ring

by Alanah McGinley on 10/10/07 at 04:38 PM ET
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From David Shoalts blog post at the Globe & Mail,

News that Kid Rock was given a Stanley Cup ring by Carolina Hurricanes owner Pete Karmanos, a fellow Detroit native, set off some discussion in the hockey world today.

On The Fan 590 in Toronto, John Garrett was appalled and rightly so that some pop star would get an exact replica of the ring given to the players when they won the 2006 Cup just because he’s a buddy of the owner. The Sportsnet commentator said his daughter got a ring when she was a staffer for the Tampa Bay Lightning when they won in 2004, but it was a much simpler model than the one given to the players.

“You think of all the former players and the sweat they put in trying to win a ring,” Garrett said. “The ring has to stand for something.”

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Hurricanes are for Real

by Alanah McGinley on 10/10/07 at 01:37 PM ET
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From David Pagnotta at MSNBC,

This piece is about the Hurricanes and their eye for the Cup.

Four games into the 2007-08 campaign and these guys are for real. They’re quick, offensive-minded and steady in their own zone. And if the 2006 Conn Smythe Trophy winner, Cam Ward, can stay atop his game for most of the season, the Hurricanes will be in business.

“Last year was a disappointing season, but you do the best that you can to take the positives away from that,” Ward said. “One of the positives was that we got a lengthy summer where we were able to recharge the batteries and get guys healthy. We saw that once we came into training camp, guys were serious, they were a lot hungrier and it’s starting to show.

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Ron Francis Expected To Be Named Asst. GM

by Paul on 10/04/07 at 01:09 PM ET
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from Lord Stanley’s Blog at the News & Observer,

The Hurricanes have called a 2 p.m. press conference today to announce their new assistant general manager, by all indications Ron Francis.

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Money Year For Commodore

by Paul on 10/02/07 at 09:16 AM ET
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from the News & Observer,

Commodore will make $1.3 million this season in the final year of a two-year contract. After that, if his progress continues, at age 28 he could find himself one of the top defensemen available on the market.

“I thought about it a little bit this summer, and it’s a little bit of motivation, I guess,” Commodore said. “Every summer you try and find something.

“Last year, my motivation was that I’m going to get a big opportunity to play, so I need to work a little harder in the weight room.

“This year, it’s a good opportunity for me to have another good year back-to-back and hopefully see where that takes me.”

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Ten Years In Carolina

by Paul on 09/30/07 at 07:04 PM ET
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from the News & Observer,

Ten years ago Monday, the Hurricanes played their first regular-season game as a franchise, a 4-2 loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning. Two days later, hockey hit North Carolina full-force when the Hurricanes hosted the Pittsburgh Penguins at the Greensboro Coliseum….

For fans used to seeing ACC Tournament basketball, hockey was an adjustment. At one point, the crowd chanted “de-fense” when the Penguins had the puck.

But if North Carolina was getting used to the NHL, the NHL had to get used to North Carolina, too. As the Hurricanes left the ice, they were showered in beer as fans threw their cups on the ice—a tradition left over from Greensboro’s minor-league days.

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Andrew Ladd Plays His Way

by Paul on 09/25/07 at 08:34 AM ET
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from the News & Observer,

Although Ladd is prized for his physical play, Rutherford noted that a key step in his development will be learning how to harness that desire to hit everybody on the ice and put opponents through the boards every shift. Yet Canes coaches and Ladd himself are quick to note there’s no call to change his style of play.

“For me to be successful and to bring the most out of my game, I need to go, like you said, ‘100 miles an hour.’ I’ve gotta be banging bodies and getting dirty, getting to the front of the net,” Ladd said. “That’s just the way I play. Injuries are part of the game. They’re frustrating, but I’m not going to change the way I play, because that would take me back a step.”

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They’ve Battled Before

by Paul on 09/21/07 at 10:02 AM ET
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from the News & Observer,

Training camp is all about introductions, as new players join an established bunch. Cam Ward didn’t need any introduction to Michael Leighton when the Carolina Hurricanes’ new goalie arrived in town. At least, not to Leighton’s fists.

The two squared off in one of the more memorable fights in recent memory, a brawl during a 2004 minor-league game that spilled onto the benches and beyond. Now, after a draft-weekend trade that brought Leighton to Carolina from the Montreal Canadiens, they are teammates..

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