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Shell
08-03-2003, 01:32 AM
From CBS Sportsline.. I can't wait to meet Jaroslav Vasicek!

Offseason Update
If there's one thing that has made living easy for the 'Canes this summer, it's the knowledge that things can't get any worse. Carolina had a disastrous season after a Cinderella-like run to the Stanley Cup Finals, decimated by injuries and bad performances that saw them finish with the worst record in the league.

GM Jim Rutherford doesn't have the ability to blow it up and start over again, but he has made a number of personnel changes including bringing back veteran defenseman Glen Wesley, who was rented to the Maple Leafs at the trade deadline, and acquiring veteran defenseman Bob Boughner from Calgary.

The Hurricanes also added some spunk up front with forwards Marty Murray and Joey Tetarenko and saved some salary when they traded restricted free agent David Tanabe and Igor Knyazev, two young defensemen who were recent first-round draft picks. They went to Phoenix for Danny Markov, who will play in Russia this year.

But the biggest news for the Hurricanes this summer came at the draft when they grabbed center Eric Staal with the second overall pick. Staal was the top-rated player available, but the Penguins decided to go after hotshot goalie Marc-Andre Fleury with the first pick, leaving Carolina with the player they coveted.

The team still has a few key players to get under contract including Erik Cole and Jaroslav Vasicek, but will not have to go through arbitration with anyone.
Stormbringer
08-03-2003, 02:01 AM
:laugh:

On a serious note, I'm very thankful that the Canes don't have to deal with arbitration...
Shell
08-03-2003, 02:08 AM
I agree! What a nasty business that is!
talkingcanes
08-03-2003, 07:12 AM
maybe the Canes think it will be easier all around to deal with Svoboda and Vasicek if they are one person ;)
Canesluver
08-03-2003, 07:32 AM
You know those Czechs... they all look alike..... fish eyes..... dirty undershirts....... ;)
Turbulence
08-03-2003, 07:45 AM
You know those Czechs... they all look alike..... fish eyes..... dirty undershirts....... ;)
:laugh: I love politically-incorrect stereotypes...
ontheboards
08-03-2003, 07:47 AM
The team still has a few key players to get under contract including Erik Cole and Jaroslav Vasicek

maybe the Canes think it will be easier all around to deal with Svoboda and Vasicek if they are one person


Someone has a careful eye! and it's not the editor or fact checker...

I am starting to get a little concerned as to why Cole and Vasicek haven't been signed-- everyone's attitude for the longest was "don't worry, it'll happen." Now, we are a month out and two key elements are news worthy by their lack of news...Will we have a couple of hold outs? and whether it's related or not, Big Joe has the same agent as Markov...
Jeff O Rocks
08-03-2003, 09:50 AM
Jaro Vasicek?? Did Markov decide not to sign and they signed this guy instead?? :beatup: ;)

Can one reporter write one article and get all the players AND coaches names right?????? Geez.........we should be called the Carolina Dangerfield's..........no respect!! :beatup:
guinevere
08-03-2003, 07:54 PM
Poor Hlavac didn't even get mentioned. I guess JR has made him the pre-season whipping boy and no one shall speak his name....

Guin
nccanes
08-03-2003, 08:00 PM
Do we still have whipping boys that aren't even on the roster? Speaking of which, I didn't miss Hlavac signing a contract somewhere did I?
dboonisalive
08-03-2003, 08:05 PM
You know what? It seems to me that the number of major, insulting mistakes that have appeared in the last week in national write-ups on us cannot possibly be without malice. I know that sounds melodramatic, but Canes' fans haven't grown sensitive for no reason. Jeez!
Shell
08-03-2003, 08:15 PM
I didn't miss Hlavac signing a contract somewhere did I?

nope :sad: Only sniff I have even heard about him was in the highly undependable NY Post. He has played with them before.
Jeff O Rocks
08-03-2003, 08:33 PM
Not to be that poor old dead horse on the subject, but I want Jan to come back. :roll:
ontheboards
08-03-2003, 10:15 PM
dboonisalive wrote:
it seems to me that the number of major, insulting mistakes that have appeared in the last week in national write-ups on us cannot possibly be without malice. I know that sounds melodramatic, but Canes' fans haven't grown sensitive haven't grown sensitive for no reason. Jeez!

Yea-- I agree-- you are sounding a wee bit melodramatic. You are basing your assertion on the belief that the reporters who are acting with "malice" are capable, intelligent and competent. I offer the idea that these reporters are the same people who are products of our education system and thus, are the recipients of mediocrity and a dumbing of America. I also assert that these reporters are part of the same establishment (the press) that we all know is flawed and following so closely on the heels of the recent NY Times fiasco. Hence, one is reminded of the cliche "don't believe everything you read." Finally, there is no way the Hurricanes are the victims of a conspiracy of mean people-- its STUPID people!
nccanes
08-04-2003, 06:50 AM
The Lightning had a crappy article from ESPN too. Stirred up the goalie controversy again, saying that they "almost assuredly" would trade Khabibulin. The worst mistake was showing the Florida Panthers season stats rather than the Lightning.

Lazy.
dboonisalive
08-05-2003, 10:39 PM
Yeah, I'm not saying it's just us, but I am saying we are one of the mainstays on the list of sports teams to mock and abuse. I actually get offended most every time I hear terms like the Bungles; I think the only people who don't are the fat cat fans whose teams never lose, and when they do, they whine all the way through the offseason.