Samuel T.O. Branch

Seven posts for the Hurricanes tonight, based on the NHL play-by-play.

Brind’Amour isn’t going to be thrilled with some of the sloppiness defensively. #Canes still generally with the better of the play.

Taylor Hall puts the #Canes in front, 1-0.

The former Devil gets the first Carolina goal of the season.

Good, quick cross point pass by Nikishin to Ghost for the one-timer, which Hall redirected.

Key matchup tonight in #Canes v #Devils will be Stankoven — in his first game as a center — and his line against the Glass line.

If Aho and Staal can play Hughes and Hischier to a draw, it’ll be on Stank to see if he can take advantage of the matchup.

Tom Dundon is good at making a business profitable.

He is not good at managing people.

Good for the #Canes.

Mark remains one of my favorite reporters. Good story here.

I will be incredibly disappointed in the #Canes if they sign Hart or McLeod.

Well that didn’t go as well as hoped

PP1 NIKISHIN ALERT

#Canes lineup is official — I was slightly off. One NHL line is playing, and it makes sense, it’s Stankoven working at center with Hall and Blake.

Nikishin is playing, but not with his likely starting defense partner Ghost. Will be curious if he ends up with Legault.

I think there’s a good chance the #Canes’ lineup tomorrow has zero players that will appear on the opening night lineup except for Nikishin and Ghost.

All the other vet spots will likely be filled by PTOs and Jost.

Day one of #Canes training camp is in the books.

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#Canes with a great win heading into the break.

This team will be just fine folks. Just need time to formulate chemistry. Gotta remember — Rantanen has played with the same linemate for the better part of a decade.

I’m not concerned about the #Canes. They’re playing well, they just are still trying to find chemistry in a lineup that’s been really shaken up.

No shame in losing to two of the best teams in the league coming off a 7-game point streak.

Some people need to settle down.

Thought Necas and Drury both played well today — but the #Avs fall 3-1.

Necas looking great on MacKinnon’s wing so far.

Of note: #Canes and #Avs have already completed their season series.

On #32Thoughts today, Elliotte Friedman mentioned the #Canes would like to resign Eric Robinson.

Players that signed one year deals were eligible to receive extensions on January 1st, so Robinson could be signed at any time.

He’s been a versatile piece that fits well in Brind’Amour’s system.

William Carrier will miss tonight’s game for the #Canes.

Since it was a game-time decision, it doesn’t sound like it’s something significant — but the winger will miss at least a game.

Really solid win for the #Canes tonight.

Good effort from the #Canes tonight, but a couple key mistakes ultimately cost them.

Not too much to critique as far as overall play goes, though, apart from being reallllllly bad in the skills competition.

The #Canes beat the #Devils 7-6 on aggregate.

Oh wait, wrong sport.

Regardless of the result, the #Canes look much better coming out of the holiday break than they did going into it.

Won’t be much consolation though, but they just have to keep up the effort and the results will come.

The #Canes are just not very good right now.

It’s a good thing the Rangers are not an abject disaster right now or else a lot more people would be talking about it.

Yeah, no argument there 😬

Both should happen, but Dolan won’t give up running the #Rangers even when he’s a ghost having to write instructions spookily on a mirror.

Laviolette has to be fired after this, right?

I mean it’s not his fault, but they gotta do SOMETHING.

#Rangers

Kochetkov with 2 assists?

Maybe the #Canes 2C really was with us all along…