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The Carolina Hurricanes didn’t hold back against a shorthanded Florida Panthers team on Friday night, demolishing the back-to-back defending Stanley Cup champions 9-1 at the Lenovo Center in Raleigh. Nikolaj Ehlers was right in the middle of it, scoring his sixth career National Hockey League hat trick — and first as a member of the […]

The Carolina Hurricanes made a statement Friday night, cruising to a 9-1 victory over the Florida Panthers at the Lenovo Center. Forward Nikolaj Ehlers led the charge with his sixth career NHL hat trick and his first as a Hurricane after signing a six-year, $51 million contract in the offseason. He also contributed an assist. […]

The St. Louis Blues are not in a good place right now. St. Louis has fallen well behind the eight ball after making the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs. The Blues are sixth in the Central Division and are watching their playoff hopes fade with each passing game. As a result, veteran players such as Jordan […]

Robert Thomas and the St. Louis Blues have not had the sort of season they envisioned entering the season. St. Louis made the playoffs last year, pushing the Winnipeg Jets to seven games in their opening round matchup. Fast forward to Monday night, and the Blues are fighting just to stay clear of the last-place […]

When the Buffalo Sabres fired general manager Kevyn Adams in the middle of December, sitting 14-14-4 and at the bottom of the NHL’s Eastern Conference, it looked like yet another postseason-less spring awaited in Western New York. But fast forward four weeks — and a ridiculous 13 wins in 14 games — and the Sabres […]

The Carolina Hurricanes are the top team in the Metropolitan Division as they take the ice Saturday against the Seattle Kraken. The Hurricanes have split their last 10 games, going 5-5-0, but they still lead the second-place New York Islanders by 4 points. The Hurricanes got some excellent news at their morning practice as star […]

The Carolina Hurricanes are atop the Metropolitan Division into January after a win on Thursday night. They beat the Anaheim Ducks to clinch their third consecutive victory, but are still looking to make a trade. The Hurricanes have forward Jesperi Kotkaniemi on the trade block, per Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman. “According to several sources, Carolina is […]

There was no shortage of storylines heading into the Carolina Hurricanes and Dallas Stars matchup on Tuesday night. The teams will always have a storyline built in now, after the Mikko Rantanen drama last season, and they are also two of the top Stanley Cup contenders this season. To make the night even better for […]

The Utah Mammoth knew that it was time for a fresh start for one of their struggling defensemen. Juuso Valimaki was a former first-round pick in 2016 by the Calgary Flames, but his NHL career never fully flourished, which made him a perfect option for the Carolina Hurricanes. Carolina’s front office thoroughly enjoys buying low […]

What on earth has happened to the reigning President’s Trophy winners in 2025-26? After championing last year’s regular season for the first time ever on the back of Hart Trophy winner Connor Hellebuyck, the Winnipeg Jets authored a miraculous Game 7 comeback against the St. Louis Blues before bowing out to the Dallas Stars in […]

The Carolina Hurricanes lost to the Montreal Canadiens 7-5 on Thursday to start 2026. Despite sitting atop the Metropolitan Division, Hurricanes coach Rod Brind’Amour has some concerns about his team. “We were turning pucks over at just an unbelievably high rate, for no reason.. We have deficiencies, and they’re starting to show. We’ve held on […]

Carolina Hurricanes forward Seth Jarvis was left off Team Canada’s initial men’s hockey roster for the 2026 Winter Olympics, announced on Wednesday, a disappointment for the 23-year-old who has been a major asset for Carolina. The Winnipeg native was one of five players from last year’s gold-medal-winning 4 Nations Face-Off squad not selected for Milan, […]

The Carolina Hurricanes are coming off a 5-2 victory over the Detroit Red Wings on Saturday. They have managed to continue winning, even though the Hurricanes have dealt with a rash of injuries.  The latest on the list of injuries is Pyotr Kochetkov. Now, head coach Rod Brind’Armour has announced that Kochetkov has had surgery […]

The Winter Classic has become a staple on the National Hockey League calendar since the first outdoor game took place all the way back in 2008. And for the first time in history — a full 18 years after the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Buffalo Sabres in Orchard Park, NY — the event will be heading […]

The Carolina Hurricanes have one more game to play before the Christmas break, but they are going to be considerably shorthanded thanks to the injuries to both Seth Jarvis and Jaccob Slavin. The Hurricanes announced that Jarvis and Slavin are both unavailable and are considered week-to-week after both suffered upper-body injuries. “Hurricanes forward Seth Jarvis […]

For the first time since the 2025-26 National Hockey League campaign kicked off almost three months ago, it’s going to be a relatively quiet week. The NHL will shut down entirely for three days beginning on Wednesday, with no games on the slate for Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, or Boxing Day. Along with zero contests, […]

Carolina Hurricanes forward Seth Jarvis had a scary-looking play when he collided with the net off a rush in overtime in Friday night’s game against the Florida Panthers. His teammates and the officials immediately signaled to the training staff to check him out, which didn’t cast an excellent light on the injury for the Team […]

The Carolina Hurricanes kept their winning streak rolling with a 4-1 road win over the Nashville Predators on Wednesday. However, the victory came at the cost of forward and alternate captain Jordan Martinook, who exited the game in the second period with a lower-body injury and did not return. Carolina had to adjust after Martinook’s […]

Who had Quinn Hughes being traded to the State of Hockey on their bingo card in 2025-26? After six NHL teams made legitimate offers for the former Vancouver Canucks superstar, it was Bill Guerin who swooped in with an incredulous offer. The Minnesota Wild GM parted with the equivalent of four first-round picks, sending Zeev […]

The Carolina Hurricanes are on fire right now. The Hurricanes are the top team in the Metropolitan Division and have won four in a row. In the process, rookie goaltender Brandon Bussi has been great in goal. He is now 11-1-0 on the season, and just won his ninth game in a row. The Canes […]

The Carolina Hurricanes are currently playing against the Philadelphia Flyers. The Hurricanes are the top team in the Eastern Conference. They also just got back one of their top defensemen after being out two months, as Jaccob Slavin has returned to the lineup. The Hurricanes activated Slavin, and in a corresponding move, sent Joel Nystrom […]

The Carolina Hurricanes announced Friday that they have secured rookie defenseman Joel Nystrom on a four-year contract extension valued at $4.9 million. The agreement carries an average annual value of $1.225 million and begins next season, running through the 2029–30 NHL campaign. Nystrom was set to become a restricted free agent after completing his entry-level […]

Carolina Hurricanes rookie goaltender Brandon Bussi made NHL history on Thursday night, backstopping his side to a 3-2 shootout victory over the Washington Capitals. With the win, Bussi became the first goaltender in league history to win 10 of his first 11 career starts. In a clash of the Eastern Conference’s top two teams, Bussi […]

The 2025-26 NHL season has produced some incredible moments throughout the last three months. For instance, Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin scoring his 900th career goal was a moment no fan will soon forget. However, individual moments take a backseat to team success. And with the season nearing the halfway point, it’s time to take […]

It’s not very often a franchise-altering player gets traded in the middle of a National Hockey League season — that is, it wasn’t very often until Mikko Rantanen was shockingly sent from the Colorado Avalanche to the Carolina Hurricanes in January of 2025. That was a bit of an outlier, until he was moved again, […]

The last team that Carolina Hurricanes’ goaltender Frederik Andersen wants to have a poor start against is the Toronto Maple Leafs. The former Toronto backstopper had a tumultuous tenure with the team and became the scapegoat for a couple of poor postseason performances. As everyone now knows, the Maple Leafs’ postseason struggles were never all […]

It was a difficult start to the season for Andrei Svechnikov, which sparked serious trade rumors around his future with the Carolina Hurricanes. The lack of production to start the year, which included no points in his first eight games, led head coach Rod Brind’Amour to cut his ice time. It caused a stir in […]

The Hockey Canada sexual assault trial involving five members of the 2018 World Junior team officially concluded, ending with all defendants declared not guilty. After the verdict, the NHL and NHLPA conducted their own review before allowing them to resume their professional careers beginning in mid-October, with eligibility to play in games as of December […]

With the fourth Thursday of November — and American Thanksgiving — in the rearview mirror, we have officially entered the holiday season. And in the latest edition of ClutchPoints’ NHL Power Rankings, that looks a lot different for a lot of teams. For the continuously floundering, 8-13-4 Nashville Predators, it’s not going to feel much […]

The Carolina Hurricanes are fighting for a postseason spot, but all the focus is on Andrei Svechnikov. The young winger has seen his ice time dip at points early in the 2025-26 season. Moreover, he struggled early on, failing to score in his first eight games of the season. He has since rebounded, but there […]

The Carolina Hurricanes left the Winnipeg Jets in their wake with a 5-1 win at Lenovo Center on Friday, making it back-to-back victories over Winnipeg in just seven days. Forward Seth Jarvis was the maestro of the night, scoring a second career hat trick. Jarvis reached 20 points in just 24 games, the fastest in […]

It’s once again been a struggle for the Vancouver Canucks to find consistency, as they’re currently in seventh place in the Pacific Division with a subpar record of 9-12-2 through the first 23 games of the 2025-26 NHL campaign. Naturally, as a team struggles as the Canucks are, there are going to be trade rumors […]

The unfortunate reality of the NHL salary cap is that the Winnipeg Jets would have a difficult time fitting all their expiring contracts under the limit. Winnipeg had a window to win a championship with its entire core group. However, when Nikolaj Ehlers’ contract expired after last season, the Jets had to let him sign […]

The Carolina Hurricanes are one of the best teams in the NHL this year. The Canes are 13-5-2 this season, which is the best record in the Eastern Conference. While the squad is tops in the conference, there is still one overreaction trade for Carolina to make. Rod Brind’Amour’s group has lost three of their […]

The Carolina Hurricanes walked into TD Garden needing a strong response, and Pyotr Kochetkov delivered it with a calm, controlled game that set the tone in a 3-1 win over the Boston Bruins. He stayed balanced through early pressure. He handled rebounds with ease. And he played with the confident edge fans have been waiting […]

Exactly five months ago, on a warm June evening in Sunrise, the Florida Panthers captured their second consecutive NHL championship. It wasn’t quite as thrilling as the year before, when the Edmonton Oilers erased a 3-0 deficit before coming up just short in a one-goal Game 7 — but it was a terrific series nonetheless. […]

The Carolina Hurricanes took a 4-1 loss against the Washington Capitals in their most recent game, but they didn’t leave without a fight – literally. With five minutes to go in the first period, Capitals center Nic Dowd ran over Hurricanes goaltender Frederik Andersen behind the net. Andersen hit the ground, and a flurry of […]

In October of 1997, the Vancouver Canucks and Anaheim Ducks kicked off the NHL Global Series with back-to-back games in front of 10,500 spectators at the Yoyogi Arena in Tokyo, Japan. Since that debut contest — which was won for the Canucks by Pavel Bure — there have been 45 other international regular-season contests, spanning […]

The Carolina Hurricanes’ ongoing search for a high-impact forward has led them to the Calgary Flames’ Nazem Kadri, but a significant obstacle stands in the way. Carolina has been actively pursuing a top-line player since missing out on Mikko Rantanen and Mitch Marner last season. Yet Kadri, one of the most experienced centers on the […]