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Carolina Game-Day Notebook
 Posted 11/6/2009 1:20:00 PM
Forwards
Blake Mitchell Kessel
Ponikarovsky Grabovski Kulemin
Hagman Stajan Stempniak
Primeau Wallin Orr
Defense
Kaberle Komisarek
Beauchemin White
Schenn Finger
Goalie
Gustavsson
Scratches: Mayers, Rosehill, Exelby
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Hurricanes defenseman Joe Corvo displayed a look of sheer devastation as he explained the ills of his team's disastrous ten-game losing streak.
From work ethic to handling adversity to bad bounces, nothing has gone right in Carolina, including an upper-body injury to Eric Staal that will likely sideline him for two to four weeks.
Still the Canes played well in a 3-0 loss to Phoenix on Wednesday, and as Corvo explained the team is finally starting to realize “that we have to work”.
Carolina fired 21 shots at Tomas Vokoun in the first period of Wednesday’s defeat, and did not score. Corvo said that at one point in the period, he tried to rip the hinges off the bench door as he made ...
Leafs Hope To Bury Struggling Canes Early
Posted 11/5/2009 10:17:00 PM
Tough breaks all around in Carolina.
Not only have they lost ten straight, but the injuries are starting to pile up.
Eric Staal missed Wednesday’s game versus Florida with an upper body injury, the first time that’s happened since March 19, 2004 (349 straight). And then in the 3-0 loss to the Panthers, the Canes lost Tuomo Ruutu and Ray Whitney, who both suffered upper body injuries.
Tough luck indeed.
The Canes recalled Zack Boychuk, the 14th pick in the 2008 draft to make up for their absences.
Confusing times for the Canes as they search desperately for a way out. This a team that went all the way to the conference finals last season, only to start this season with a gigantic thud.
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Not much has gone right for the Hurricanes early this season and that includes the aforementioned Staal.
For the second year in a row, the ...
Thursday Practice Notebook
Posted 11/5/2009 12:30:00 PM
Forwards
Blake Mitchell Kessel
Ponikarovsky Grabovski Kulemin
Hagman Stajan Stempniak
Primeau Wallin Orr
Extras: Rosehill, Mayers
Defense
Kaberle Komisarek
Beauchemin White
Schenn Finger
Extra: Exelby
Goalies
Gustavsson
Toskala
Jeff Finger will return to the lineup on Friday after sitting six games as a healthy scratch. Ron Wilson wouldn't name his plan for the goalies this weekend.
-J.Siegel
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