1. Carolina Hurricanes Complete 2010-2011 Season Preview and Offseason Wrap-Up

    After Friday's European Sendoff preseason game against the Atlanta Thrashers , the Carolina Hurricanes will board a plane to cross the Atlantic and prepare to begin their 2010-2011 regular season...

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  2. Carolina Hurricanes' Signing of Patrick O'Sullivan Will Pay Huge Dividends

    The Carolina Hurricanes added another talented member Friday to their extremely competitive upcoming training camp battle for the two remaining center positions. The team signed 25-year-old center Patrick O'Sullivan to a one-year, two-way contract...

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  3. Carolina Hurricanes Report: Prospects Finish Third at Traverse City Tournament

    This past week, teams of youngsters from eight franchises got their first bite of pre-preseason NHL action in the annual Traverse City Prospects Tournament...

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  4. NFL Power Rankings: Week 1 Edition Has Colts, Cowboys Topping The List

    As the NFL season began Thursday night with a rematch of the NFC Championship Game, another year of football kicked off with a...disappointment...

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  5. NHL Free Agency: List of Remaining Available Players Dwindling

    As training camp grows closer and the heat of the free agency period in the NHL winds down, the list of available players still on the market has begun to dwindle...

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  6. 2010 College Football Rankings: Boise State Up to No. 2

    With the first full day of college football kicking off today with 54 games on the slate, stadiums are already heating up for an array of intriguing season openers...

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  7. Weekend Wonderings: Five-Year NHL Trends and Streaks To Think Over

    During the NHL lockout that cancelled what would have been the 2004-2005 season, the entire rules of the game were re-evaluated and changed to make hockey an overall better sport...

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  8. Behind the Scenes Hockey: Nine Unheralded NHL Players

    Around the world of hockey, there are many words for them; "Down and Dirty", "Rough and Tumble", "In the Trenches", "Blue Collar players", and "Enforcers"...

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  9. Faces of the Franchise: Three Young Carolina Hurricanes To Watch For

    When the calendar turned from 2009 to 2010 last winter in Raleigh, Nc., the situation of the city's one professional sports team was anything but steady...

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  10. NHL History: Eight Key Players Dumped After Winning a Stanley Cup

    Photo Credit: Paint It BlackhawksToday's NHL world of salary caps, hidden bonuses, and strict roster regulations make it impossible to not understand why even the best players are often relegated to the free agent market...

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  11. 2010 NHL Offseason: Carolina Hurricanes Position Battles to Watch For

    As a summer of surprises around the NHL rolls on, the Carolina Hurricanes have begun to quietly fill out their roster. All of the Hurricanes' restricted free agents heading into the offseason have been signed...

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  12. 2010 NHL Free Agency: Ranking the Top 25 Remaining Free Agents

    We thought the wait for Ilya Kovalchuk to sign has finally ended. Monday, the 27-year-old winger announced a jaw-dropping 17-year deal with the New Jersey Devils, with whom he finished the 2009-2010 season...

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  13. NHL Free Agency: Carolina Hurricanes Team Report (July 16 Edition)

    Despite a period of silence surrounding the Carolina Hurricanes over the past week since they signed Joe Corvo, several minor signings have began to fill out the depth chart for the 'Canes new minor league affiliate, the Charlotte Checkers...

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  14. NHL Trade Rumors: Six Teams Interested in Trading for Tim Thomas

    You don't have to be from Boston to know who Tim Thomas is. After finishing the 2008-2009 regular season with an impressive 36-11-7 record, .933 save percentage, and a 2...

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  15. NHL Free Agency: Top 10 Free Agent Right Wings Still Available

    If a team is still looking for a right wing this offseason, they're going to have to look from the very top of the list "right" down to the very bottom in hopes of finding one on the free agent market...

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  16. NHL Free Agency: Joe "Scorvo" Corvo Returning to Carolina Hurricanes

    Joe Corvo is returning to Raleigh. After being traded to Washington at the 2010 Trade Deadline in a deal that sent a 2011 second rounder (eventually traded to Philadelphia for Jonathan ...

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  17. 2010 NHL Free Agency: Winners, Losers, and Surprises

    When NHL free agency opened on July 1st, we expected a frenzy, and we had it. There were 18 signings announced in just the first two hours, and major moves continued throughout the day...

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  18. 2010 NHL Free Agency Tracker: Team-By-Team Transactions Index

    The 2010 edition of NHL Free Agency is now off with a bang. Despite plenty of trades throughout the NHL Draft last weekend and then many more over the past week, hundreds of hockey players are now out on the market...

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  19. 2010 NHL Draft Results: Carolina Hurricanes Analysis and Recap

    We knew that the 2010 NHL Entry Draft was going to be a busy one for the Carolina Hurricanes, who held a league-high 11 draft picks going in...

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  20. 2010 FIFA World Cup: Power Ranking Each Group's Difficulty, Looking Back

    With Spain's 2-1 victory over Chile on Friday afternoon, the 2010 FIFA World Cup's Group Stage concluded its 48 grueling matches...

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  21. 2010 NHL Draft First Round Recap: Surprise Picks and Plunges Highlight Night

    The first player selected at the 2010 NHL Entry Draft in Los Angeles last night was right wing Taylor Hall, the newest player to receive their Edmonton Oilers jersey. That pick, at least, was expected...

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  22. NHL 2010 Season Schedule Released: Carolina Hurricanes Glance-Over

    Well over three months before the first puck drops to start the 2010-2011 NHL Season, the National Hockey League has already released the schedule...

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  23. Five Things the Carolina Hurricanes Must Accomplish At the 2010 NHL Draft

    After a disappointing season for any hockey team, the next offseason usually includes a complete roster assessment, a youth movement, and a strong emphasis on putting together an excellent draft class...

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  24. 2010 FIFA World Cup: Clinching Scenarios For All Eight Groups

    There's certainly been no lack of headlines at the 2010 World Cup, and we're still only less than two weeks into the competition. Koman Coulibaly's invisible no-goal call that cost the U...

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  25. Colorado and Others to Join Pac-10 Conference: Possible Division Alignments

    Thursday morning, the University of Colorado Buffaloes announced they would be the 11th team to join the Pac-10 Conference, but the first since 1978...

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