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The Carolina Hurricanes will have a new uniform for the first time in their 15-year history, the team revealed Thursday in a press release.

The Hurricanes look poised to make a run at the playoffs in the upcoming 2013-2014 season.

During the 2012-13season, coach Kirk Muller was scrutinized often for the dismal play of his team during the second half.

Jiri Tlusty had an amazing and unexpected 2012-13 season, scoring 23 goals, good for fifth in the league, and creating one of the best lines in the NHL with Alexander Semin and Eric Staal , but the question now is, will that play transition into next season? Tlusty originally started to play well towards the end of the 2011-12 season and ended up ... (more)

Although the team looked to be in a strong position, injuries and under-performance of players held the Canes from making the playoffs yet again.

The Carolina Hurricanes' unrestricted free agents this season feature some long-tenured Canes players, season additions from this year and a young defenseman.

The Carolina Hurricanes did not have a good 2013 season. There are holes that need to be filled, albeit smaller ones, but the Canes are entering the summer with about $7.6 million in cap space, so what is GM Jim Rutherford 's plan? Despite having a bad season, the Hurricanes do not have a lot of cap space because $31 million is tied up in the Staal ... (more)

Every team around the NHL has problems with something, and the Carolina Hurricanes had a very big problem with one aspect of the game.

The Carolina Hurricanes' final-game loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins, an 8-3 drubbing, put the exclamation point on a how badly things turned over a first short, then too-long period of time in 2012-2013. Though the lockout-shortened NHL season of 48 games seemed too short in duration, the latter half, 24-game slide that the Hurricanes started and ... (more)

This is part one of a two-part series. Tomorrow the defensemen, goalies and late-season call-ups will be graded.

Once again, the friendly folks at Bovada have sent along their published odds to win the 2013 Stanley Cup.

In an interview Tuesday, Karmanos said the fact he has put the Everblades and their arena in Estero, Fla., on the market should not be interpreted as an indication he wants or has plans to divest all of his hockey interests.

As the architect of a Stanley Cup team and someone who has devoted a significant chunk of his working life to the proposition that an NHL team can survive and thrive in North Carolina, Jim Rutherford has earned the right to call his shot.

The Carolina Hurricanes can't seem to figure out how to play well for a full season - even one that's only 48 games long.

"He's still a young player," Rutherford said last April. "There's still room for him to make an even bigger jump." Tlusty proved him right.

In their final game of the 2013 season, the Carolina Hurricanes will play the Pittsburgh Penguins tonight at 7:30 ET.

It was a rough season that started with no start. A labor dispute that started on September 15th and took until January 6, 2013 to get resolved.

Jared Staal, the youngest of the four Staal brothers, will make his NHL debut Thursday and play alongside brothers Eric and Jordan with the Hurricanes.

When the Carolina Hurricanes ' season is officially over and they start to assess what went wrong this year while looking ahead to the future, one of the most important things they should consider is keeping their top line intact.