Curse you Matt Cullen!

Canes lost 2-1 in a shootout against the Rangers today.

I will attribute the shootout woes this season to Matt Cullen leaving the Hurricanes. Coincidentally, Matt Cullen was the player who scored the winning shootout goal for the Rangers.

The Canes have not won any games that went into shootouts this entire year.

The game was well played, I thought. I thought the Canes had a bit of an edge in the second - the other periods seemed even.

Cam Ward left the game in the second period with a laceration above his left knee. He got 11 stitches according to the NBC guys. (I actually liked NBC's broadcast of the game... it didn't seem like they were favoring one team over the other for once.) John Grahame came in and played pretty good for having no warmup whatsoever. He made a few mistakes at the beginning - but none that turned into goals for New York, thankfully.

Justin Williams got the only goal for the Canes.

The next game is at home against the Florida Panthers.

And... for all of those who follow college basketball: the UNC Tar Heels won the ACC Tournament over NC State today. Go Heels!

Canes win

Canes won 3-0 over Washington last night.

I didn't really pay too much attention to the game, and the parts that I did pay attention to, I've forgotten anything remarkable about them.

So... Canes are now in 8th place in the East. Tomorrow they play the New York Rangers, who are trailing the Canes points-wise by 2. Game's on NBC, although the 12:30 start time will conflict with the 1:00 ACC Championship game that will feature the UNC Tar Heels and some team not known as of right now.

And to conclude this post that didn't really say anything unique: Happy Birthday Mom!

Network broadcasting foils the Caniac Nation again

Canes lost 3-1 to the Thrashers yesterday.

No one saw this game because the Canes were screwed over by the powers-that-be at NBC who decided that the Penguins-Flyers game or the Red Wings-Avalanche game would be better for its viewers. Yeah, that's right, I'd rather see two teams, who are for certain in the playoffs, play their over-hyped division rivals who are so far out of the playoffs that they couldn't touch eighth place with a 10 foot pole. I'd totally rather see that than two teams who are legitimately vying for playoff position.

Or not.

The point being, all I can tell you is that Rod Brind'Amour scored the lone goal for the Canes.

The Canes will be on a four day lapse in games, during which I will be preparing myself for the inevitable madness that comes with March.

Speaking of which, UNC won over Duke yesterday, taking the first place seed in the upcoming ACC Tournament.