All Entries Tagged With: "Tuomo Ruutu"
Ward Stops 47 As B’s Are Again Stymied By ‘Canes
Throughout my years of watching sports, I’ve never been fond of the expression “they just have your number” in response to being beaten repeatedly by the same team. However, watching each of the four meetings between the struggling Carolina Hurricanes and the defending Stanley Cup champion Bruins I’ve begun to think that my belief is [...]
GameDay: Bruins & Canes Set To Meet For Final Time This Season
Tonight the Boston Bruins will play their fourth and final match-up of the season against the visiting Carolina Hurricanes. The B’s are coming off a 4-3 come-from-behind win over the Ottawa Senators on Tuesday evening and will be playing in the second game of a three game home-stand. The ‘Canes will be playing in their [...]
Five Deals That SHOULD Be Made Before The Deadline
As the late February NHL trading deadline approaches rumors have began to surface in every corner of the hockey world. From buyers to sellers and rentals, a plethora of deals always seem to be made this time of year. This year, as a few top-tier players are slated to become Unrestricted free agents at year’s [...]
Tampa Bay Lightning Week in Review – Featuring The Quarterdeck Log
The Tampa Bay Lightning is 17-23-4 with 38 points through 44 games. After 44 games last season, the Bolts were 26-13-5 with 57 points. The Bolts are in fifth (last) place in the Southeast Division and trail the division leading Washington Capitals by twelve points. Tampa Bay is in 15th place in the 15 team Eastern Conference, twelve [...]
Montreal Canadiens Erik Cole finally clicking with new linemates, while Eric Staal is in a season-long slump
After a very slow start during which he only had one assist in seven games to go along with a-3 plus/minus rating, newly acquired Erik Cole has finally clicked with his new linemates diminutive center David Desharnais and power forward Max Pacioretty. In the last eleven games, during which his ice-time climbed finally climbed over [...]
Bruins Implode, Fall To ‘Canes 4-1
On Tuesday evening, the Boston Bruins played host to the Carolina Hurricanes at the TD Garden in the 2nd match-up between the teams, slated for the 2011-’12 season. The Bruins entered the game with a pedestrian 2-3-0 (4 Points) record, but were coming off a hard-fought come-from-behind victory on Saturday night, over the 2010 [...]
Analyzing the Canes’ open forward spots
The Carolina Hurricanes have been very open to giving a chance to their youth. They pitched their newly acquired collegiate forward Riley Nash a spot on the team even though he made it very clear he would like to graduate. Soon enough the cousin of Columbus Blue Jackets winger Rick Nash signed with the team, [...]
Struggling B’s Head To Carolina For Road-Trip Finale
It was 51 days ago when the Bruins were in a similar predicament, winning just one out of their last five, the Bruins stumbled into Carolina for what seemed to be an easy two points in a must-win contest. The B’s went on to be thoroughly dominated by the last-place ‘Canes, creating a storm of [...]
Avalanche Split the East Coast Trip
Friday night the Colorado Avalanche continued their road warrior ways, leading the NHL in road games the Avs played back-to-backs at Carolina and Buffalo. Joe Sacco appears to be warming up to the conventional thinking of most coaches of playing the backup in these situations. Previously Sacco has ridden Craig Anderson through nearly every game [...]
Wheel of Morality turn turn turn…
Y!’s Puck Daddy contributing Author Sean Leahy broke the news over Twitter and the NHL quickly confirmed that Pittsburgh forward Matt Cooke will be suspended 2 games and will be fined $29,268.30 (yeah nice round number there) for his high hit on Rangers rookie Artem Anisimov Saturday night at the Igloo. The hit came in [...]
The Return of Eric Staal
Tonight the Carolina Hurricanes visit the Anaheim Ducks. This is the only meeting between the two teams this season and each team needs the win. I think tonight’s game will be better than probably most people anticipate. Granted, neither team is near the top of their respective conferences, but the Hurricanes and the Ducks have [...]
Sparks of Life Amid Hurricanes’ Rubble
Nobody really ever wants to see their team battling just to stay out of the conference basement; but that’s the position Carolina Hurricanes fans found themselves in last night against the visiting Toronto Maple Leafs. By the end of the first period, the outlook was bleak at best with the Hurricanes down 3-0. Things started [...]
Shootout Drought
The Tampa Bay Lightning are ridiculously inept in shootouts. Tuomo Ruutu netted the goal to clinch the shootout victory for the Carolina Hurricanes after former Bolt Jussi Jokinen scored his team’s only goal in regulation as the ‘Canes won 2-1 Tuesday night, extending the Lightning’s RBC Center losing streak to seven games. Carolina’s Sergei Samsonov [...]
