Eric Staal News

Canada's Eric Staal lies injured on the ice after a hit by Sweden's Alexander Edler at the world hockey championships on Thursday.

Keegan Bradley still hasn't gotten things right on the 18th hole at the Byron Nelson Championship, even when finally going left.

It's something that is going to be discussed a good amount after Eric Staal 's injury at the World Championships; how important is the tournament that teams will send players there with the risk of a major injury? The Carolina Hurricanes were lucky enough that Staal did not need injury, but what if he did and would miss a part of the season? Staal ... (more)

Canada's Eric Staal, shown here after a knne-on-knee collision with Sweden's Alex Edler on Thursday, was diagnosed with a third-degree MCL sprain.

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)

Canada's Eric Staal lies injured on the ice during their 2013 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship quarter-final match against Sweden at the Globe Arena in Stockholm May 16, 2013.

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.

Jeff Skinner scored on an end-to-end rush in the third period Sunday as Canada beat the Czech Republic 2-1 at the world hockey championship to clinch a spot in the quarter-finals. The Carolina Hurricanes forward collected the puck in his own zone before weaving through the Czech defence and burying a wraparound behind goalie Ondrej Pavelec at 6:55 ... (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.

When you look at the best players around the NHL this season, one of the first names that comes to mind is Eric Staal .

The Carolina Hurricanes experienced a might big disappointment when the failed to qualify for the postseason in 2013.

After a disappointing 2013 season, GM Jim Rutherford announced that there would be no coaching changes in the Carolina Hurricanes system, keeping Kirk Muller as the head coach, but how safe is Muller's position? Muller was brought in as the Canes head coach during the 2011-12 season on Nov.

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)

1 overall pick. The Canes’ big skid late in the season kept them out of the Stanley Cup playoffs.

The Carolina Hurricanes began the 2013 season with a great deal of hype and excitement, largely due to the arrivals of Jordan Staal and Alexander Semin .

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Russia enters the 77th hockey worlds as a favorite following its dominant display in 2012, when the team had NHL players and won all 10 games en route to the title.

Led by the Tampa Bay Lightning's Steven Stamkos, pictured, twice the winner of the NHL's Maurice Richard Trophy as the league's top goal scorer, Canada's forwards boast substantial international experience and success in the NHL.

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

There were a number of things that didn't go the way of the Carolina Hurricanes by the end of the 2013 NHL season.