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Frozen Fisticuffs Fight Of The Night — Gleason vs. Engelland — 1/17/12
Last night’s game between the Carolina Hurricanes and the Pittsburgh Penguins treated us to one of the best fights of the 2011-12 NHL season, and a strong candidate for “Frozen Fisticuffs Fight of the Year.” And we nearly missed it all, as the game cut to a commercial seconds before Tim Gleason and Deryk Engelland [...]
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Picture Of The Day: Movember!
The month of Movember is almost over, and while many individuals in the National Hockey League decided to get involved in their attempt to raise awareness on men’s health issues, it will soon be time for each and every one of them to rid themselves of all that itchy, unwanted facial hair. As for these [...]
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The Stat Line Of The Night — 3/15/11 — Cam Ward
Sitting four points out of a playoff spot, the Carolina Hurricanes were confronted with the biggest game of their season last night as they traveled to Buffalo to take on the eighth-place Sabres. It was what hockey experts, players and fans alike often refer to as a “four-point game,” and in this case the Canes [...]
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No Brotherly Love Here: Eric Staal Crushes Brother Marc (Video)
While growing up under the same roof in Thunder Bay, Ontario, there were likely several occasions that saw Eric Staal get physical with his younger brother Marc while playing hockey out on the pond. That is what brothers do. They dish out punishment on one another, but they do it out of love. Last night, [...]
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Frozen Fisticuffs Fight Of The Night — Bodie vs. Fraser — 2/16/11
Troy Bodie and Mark Fraser have seen each other before in the minors as they hooked up for a pair of fights during the 2007 season while playing for the Springfield Falcons and the Lowell Devils, respectively. They had the opportunity to go toe-to-toe once again last night. The only difference was this time they [...]
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It Sounds Like The Microphones Were A Little Too Close To The Ice During This Islanders Game (Videos)
It is no secret that the game of hockey is littered with on-ice and locker room expletives between players, coaches and referees. And if it was a secret, that secret was certainly revealed during HBO’s 24/7: Road to the Winter Classic series, thanks in large part to Capitals’ head coach Bruce Boudreau. Although the NHL [...]
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NHL Referee Goes Through Puberty Right Before Our Eyes (Video)
NHL referee Chris Rooney may be 35-years-old, but during last night’s game between the Carolina Hurricanes and the New York Islanders, he took a trip back in time to somewhere around the year 1991, when he was a young teenager just hitting puberty. Unfortunately for Chris, the two teams and approximately 4976 fans in attendance, [...]
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Leafs’ Dion Phaneuf Delivers A Bone-Crushing Check On Canes’ Tuomo Ruutu (Video)
Tim Gleason’s sucker punch on Nikolai Kulemin may have put the exclamation mark on what was a very physical affair between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Carolina Hurricanes last night, but that fight certainly wasn’t the beginning of the rough stuff. For that we take you to the start of the first period when [...]
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Canes’ Tim Gleason Drops Leafs’ Nikolai Kulemin With Sucker Punch (Video)
This punch will likely be debated by hockey fans for the next couple of days. Following the final buzzer to end the first period of last night’s game between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Carolina Hurricanes, things got heated in front of the Canes’ bench after the Leafs’ Mikhail Grabovski took a run at [...]
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Frozen Fisticuffs Fight Of The Night — McQuaid vs. Bodie — 1/17/11
With only five minutes remaining in the game and the Boston Bruins leading by a score of 7-0, most of the Carolin Hurricanes’ players had already given up, but there was still one member of the Canes that was looking to win back a bit of respect for his embarrassed team. That player happened to [...]
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Frozen Fisticuffs Fight Of The Night — Prust vs. Brodie — 1/5/11
Despite an outstanding performance from two of the NHL’s toughest heavyweights, Wade Belak and George Parros, taking place last night, we simply couldn’t overlook this tremendous bout between the Carolina Hurricanes’ Troy Brodie and the New York Rangers’ Brandon Prust. Despite the incredible sized advantage in favor of Brodie, Prust was able to hang in [...]
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Frozen Fisticuffs Fight Of The Night – Bissonnette vs. Harrison – 10/23/10
With his team trailing the Carolina Hurricanes by a score of 2-0 midway through the second period, the Coyotes’ Paul Bissonnette was looking to send his opposition a message, and he did just that during a bout with Jay Harrison. Although the fight may not have been the key to the Coyotes turnaround, as they [...]
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Jets Coach Rex Ryan Is The NHL’s Most Confused Fan
Rex Ryan wearing a Philadelphia Flyers jersey to an NHL game between the Florida Panthers and the Carolina Hurricanes. Do enigmas get any bigger than this? No, they do not. After all, there aren’t many things in this world bigger than Ryan these days, with dinosaurs being extinct and all. So what was going on [...]
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2009-10 NHL Preview: Southeast Division
Total Pro Sports – With the start of the 2009-10 NHL Season upon us it’s time to take a look and see how each team stacks up. As per the norm, each preview will be broken down by division in order of how we think the team will finish. Lets take a look at the [...]
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Cam Ward’s Blunder Marks The End Of Hurricanes’ Playoff Run
Total Pro Sports – With 1:30 left in the first, the Canes were close to completing a strong period and going into the dressing room tied 1-1. That was before a harmless looking Maxime Talbot wrist shot deflected off the stick of Anton Babchuk and somehow made it past Canes goalie Cam Ward at what [...]
