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Eric Staal - C - Hurricanes

Eric Staal has sustained only a third-degree, right-knee sprain of his MCL that will not require surgery.

The MRI results are in and the news is as good as the Hurricanes could have hoped for. Staal will need three months to rehabilitate the injury but will not need to go under the knife. If all goes well, Staal should be good to go once training camp opens in September. All Staal owners in keeper leagues can exhale now.
Source: Hurricanes.com
May 18 - 11:35 AM
Eric Staal - C - Hurricanes

There is no word yet on the results of Eric Staal's MRI.

He is undergoing the imaging on his knee sometime Saturday in Raleigh. The Canes and Staal's owners have their fingers crossed. The hope is that he has a severe sprain and not a torn ligament as a result of his knee-on-knee collision with Alexander Edler at the IIHF World Championships.
May 18 - 10:26 AM
Eric Staal - C - Hurricanes

Eric Staal will return to Raleigh on Friday to he'll undergo an MRI on Saturday.

He suffered an apparent knee injury Thursday while representing Canada at the IIHF World Championship. Staal was the victim of a knee-to-knee hit from Sweden's Alexander Edler in the quarterfinals of the tournament and he appeared to be in serious pain.
Source: Raleigh News & Observer
May 17 - 8:34 AM
Eric Staal - C - Hurricanes

Eric Staal suffered what appeared to be a serious knee injury in Canada's quarterfinal shootout loss to Sweden at the IIHF World Championships.

He received a knee-on-knee hit from Alexander Edler, who was assessed a major for kneeing, with 4:14 left in the first period. Staal wasn't able to put any weight on his leg as he was helped off the ice. "It's unfortunate and hopefully it's not too serious," Carolina GM Jim Rutherford said. "If it is serious, hopefully there will be enough recovery time for him to be ready for next season. We'll just hope for the best." He will have an MRI exam in Stockholm from NHL doctors.
Source: Raleigh News & Observer
May 16 - 5:04 PM
Kirk Muller - C - Hurricanes

The Hurricanes are the first team in North Carolina to support gay and lesbian inclusivity.

"People’s right to choose whatever in their lives is important. It’s important enough for the Hurricanes to support it," Hurricanes general manager Jim Rutherford said. "For people to have to carry certain things around in their life and not feel comfortable sharing it with other people, to me it isn’t right. "You don’t have to agree with everybody with what they do in their life, their different choices in their life. But everybody has that right." Canes winger Kevin Westgarth hopes the NHL "can become a beacon for other sports," as the NHL and NHLPA partnered with You Can Play in April.
Source: Raleigh News & Observer
May 14 - 9:25 AM
Justin Faulk - D - Hurricanes

Justin Faulk is playing standout hockey for the United States at the IIHF World Championships in Sweden and Finland.

The Hurricanes' defenseman has registered four assists in four games and is playing heavy minutes in all game situations. We have long been touting Faulk as a player to watch. He is now a player to draft. Don't wait too late to select him in your pools next season.
May 11 - 10:25 AM
Ryan Murphy - D - Hurricanes

As the Hurricanes look to improve their defense, youngsters Ryan Murphy and Brett Bellemore could be options.

Murphy (48 points in the OHL) was the team's No. 1 draft pick in 2011, while Bellemore (13 points, 87 penalty minutes in the AHL) was a sixth rounder from 2007. "You either have to be a skating, puck-moving defenseman or you have to be a physical defenseman, general manager Jim Rutherford said. "We have some defensemen who are capable of playing physical and haven't done it and they have to do it if they want to play here."
Source: Raleigh News & Observer
May 3 - 9:14 AM
Kirk Muller - C - Hurricanes

Hurricanes owner Peter Karmanos is ready to increase his team's spending and keep pace with the other free-spending teams in the new divison that is part of realignment.

Carolina ranked 20th in payroll this season with a payroll of just over $57 million. They are committed to about $56 million next year as the cap will drop to $64.3 million. "We have been a budget team for a long time," Rutherford acknowledged. "But we are now at the point where we’re going to be a lot closer to the cap than not. We’ll probably be at about $60, $61 million next year. Now we’re getting into that area. We know we had to do that with the change of divisions." The Canes need to add some leadership, role players at forward and upgrade their blueline.
Source: Raleigh News & Observer
May 3 - 9:09 AM
Kirk Muller - C - Hurricanes

Hurricanes GM Jim Rutherford has placed changing the team's defense as his top priority this off-season.

He said he wants to add at least one and possibly two veteran blueliners through free agency or trade. Rutherford stated that he wants Carolina to be "tougher to play against." The Canes may also give Ryan Murphy and/or Brett Bellemore a shot at an NHL job on the back end next season.
Source: Raleigh News & Observer
May 2 - 3:22 PM
Dan Ellis - G - Hurricanes

Carolina GM Jim Rutherford may be interested in retaining the services of goaltender Dan Ellis.

"I think we had a good one-two punch early in the season with [Cam] Ward and Ellis," Rutherford said. Ellis will be an unrestricted free agent this summer and if the Canes don't bring him back then Justin Peters will likely move into the team's backup role.
Related: Justin Peters
Source: Raleigh News & Observer
May 2 - 3:16 PM
Eric Staal - C - Hurricanes

Eric Staal will represent Team Canada at the upcoming world championship and he's hoping that his appearance in the tournament will help his chances of earning a roster spot at the 2014 Winter Olympics.

"I want to make sure I'm still on the radar," said Staal, who will be playing in his first IIHF World Hockey Championships since 2008. "Any time you get a chance to represent your country, you take advantage of that. The fact I haven't played further into the spring in a few years also played into it." Carolina teammates Jordan Staal, Jeff Skinner and Jay Harrison will join him on Canada's roster.
Related: Jeff Skinner, Jay Harrison, Jordan Staal
Source: Raleigh News & Observer
Apr 30 - 8:41 AM
Kirk Muller - C - Hurricanes

The Carolina Hurricanes will enter the 2013 NHL Entry Draft with the fifth overall selection.

The Canes had just an 8.1 percent chance of winning Monday night's lottery, but they ended up retaining the No. 5 pick.
Source: Raleigh News & Observer
Apr 30 - 8:33 AM
Jiri Tlusty - W - Hurricanes

Jiri Tlusty will skate for the Czech Republic at the world championship.

He finished in a fifth-place tie among all players with 23 goals in 48 games during the lockout-shortened campaign. Tlusty set a new career-high with his goal total and he reached a personal best with 38 points and a plus-15 rating as well. He played very well alongside Eric Staal and Alexander Semin and the three of them will be counted on again for offense in 2013-14.
Source: Raleigh News & Observer
Apr 29 - 3:47 PM
Cam Ward - G - Hurricanes

Cam Ward doesn't think his knee injury was the reason for Carolina's No. 26 finish in the league's overall standings.

"There's other areas where we just weren't good enough," Ward said. "I guess it was bad timing but you had Justin Faulk go down, you had Joni (Pitkanen) go down, you can go down the list. At the end of the day it wasn't good enough." He appeared in 17 games before suffering a season-ending knee injury on March 3rd. Dan Ellis and Justin Peters started 16 games apiece in 2013, but as expected none of them was able to match the numbers that Ward put up during his 16 starts.
Source: Raleigh News & Observer
Apr 29 - 3:41 PM
Dan Ellis - G - Hurricanes

Dan Ellis may be permitted to test the waters as an unrestricted free agent this summer.

Justin Peters has a one-way contract entering next season, so he probably has an inside track on the team's backup goalie duties.
Related: Justin Peters
Source: Raleigh News & Observer
Apr 29 - 10:34 AM

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