Chip noted in his Monday Debate topic that a pair of ex-Hurricanes, Niclas Wallin and Ian White, scored for the Sharks on Sunday.
While that's Wallin's fourth career playoff goal, it's his first scored in regulation. The first three, all for the Hurricanes, were overtime game-winners. Ron Francis was the first to call him "The Secret Weapon," after his second, in 2002.
BUFFALO — There no longer is a pending trade involving Canes defenseman Niclas Wallin, general manager Jim Rutherford said today.
"There is no trade," Rutherford said late Friday afternoon.
BUFFALO -- Canes general manager Jim Rutherford said Thursday that a trade involving veteran defenseman Niclas Wallin was in the works and should be resolved before Friday's game against the Buffalo Sabres.
"We have a pending trade for him," Rutherford said. "He has a no-trade (clause in his contract). He has to waive that, and I think at this point in time his agent is working through some things with the other team.
"I would expect we will know something here in the next 24 hours."
With Niclas Wallin returning to the lineup tonight for the Hurricanes, defenseman Jay Harrison has been reassigned to AHL's Albany (N.Y.) River Rats.
Harrison, 27, played in the Hurricanes last eight games, collecting two assists in that span. Overall, he has played in 18 games with the Hurricanes this season, scoring one goal and recording four assists.
RALEIGH — The Carolina Hurricanes hung on for a 3-2 win over Florida Panthers at the RBC Center Saturday.
SUNRISE, Fla. -- Canes defenseman Niclas Wallin has been with the team long enough to go through a lot of highs and lows.
A nine-game losing streak qualifies as a low. It also appears injured center Eric Staal might be out two-to-four weeks, not just a few games. Another low.
But Wallin said there has been enough talk and video sessions and practice and systems work and morale-building.
"There comes a point when you say, the heck with it, let's just go win a game," Wallin said today after the Canes' morning skate at BankAtlantic Center.
It will be four or five years before we know how the Carolina Hurricanes did in the draft last weekend, although they deserve credit for breaking new ground, by their standards, in terms of location (their first-round pick was from Quebec and three out of six picks were Europeans) and philosophy (all six were 6 feet or taller).
Whether first-round pick Philippe Paradis will be regarded as a steal or a bust is yet to be determined, but the record is already clear on many of the Hurricanes’ past drafts, at least those from 2005 and earlier.
We all know the misses — Igor Knyazev, Jeff Heerema, Nikos Tselios — but among the hits, here are the Canes’ five best draft picks since the team moved to North Carolina, not necessarily in overall talent, but in terms of how well they did with the pick.
Eric Staal, for example, was a relative no-brainer at No. 2 in 2003, but Cam Ward was not late in the first round a year earlier, which is why they bookend Tuesday’s Top Five:
From Talking Points:
It will be four or five years before we know how the Carolina Hurricanes did in the draft last weekend, although they deserve credit for breaking new ground, by their standards, in terms of location (their first-round pick was from Quebec and three out of six picks were Europeans) and philosophy (all six were 6 feet or taller).
Whether first-round pick Philippe Paradis will be regarded as a steal or a bust is yet to be determined, but the record is already clear on many of the Hurricanes’ past drafts, at least those from 2005 and earlier.
We all know the misses — Igor Knyazev, Jeff Heerema, Nikos Tselios — but among the hits, here are the Canes’ five best draft picks since the team moved to North Carolina, not necessarily in overall talent, but in terms of how well they did with the pick.
Eric Staal, for example, was a relative no-brainer at No. 2 in 2003, but Cam Ward was not late in the first round a year earlier, which is why they bookend Tuesday’s Top Five.
Read more here.
The sweep at the hands of the Penguins still stung for Niclas Wallin and Joe Corvo three days later, especially knowing it was Carolina’s inability to stop Pittsburgh’s offense that was the Hurricanes’ downfall in the end.
As they met with the media Friday, they looked back with some introspection at what went wrong on the blue line against the Penguins.
From Talking Points:
Niclas Wallin earned his 'secret weapon' nickname by scoring overtime goals in the playoffs — three, tied for the most in NHL history by a defenseman.
Friday, he passed some of that knowledge — indirectly — on to Tim Gleason, whose overtime winner won Game 2 for the Hurricanes.
Read more here.
