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The Carolina Hurricanes logo is a red, black and white swirl of a massive storm cell, with a black hole a puck perhaps? in the eye of the storm.

Carolina coach Paul Maurice, seen with veteran Matt Cullen during the playoffs, has been head coach for the franchise for over nine seasons.

There is every reason to believe the Penguins will win the Eastern Conference final for the second year in a row.

The Carolina Hurricanes are preparing for another comeback after being unable to rally in the NHL's Eastern Conference final.

There were many people, myself surprisingly included, who felt that Cam Ward would at least push the Penguins to a five, or possibly six-game series.

The Pittsburgh Penguins will try to punch their ticket to a second straight Stanley Cup Finals when they visit the Carolina Hurricanes tonight at RBC Center for Game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals.

The Penguins are tough enough to beat when one of their young gun stars are on - they're impossible to beat when both are.

Pittsburgh's Evgeni Malkin, right, celebrates his goal with Bill Guerin as Sergei Gonchar looks on during Game 3 of their series against Carolina on Saturday.

Every now and then, you get a night like this from Evgeni Malkin, a night when the blinding talent merges with a fire in his belly, and there is no stopping the NHL's scoring champion.

The pained look on Eric Staal's face was telling and for the Carolina Hurricanes perhaps fitting.

Evgeni Malkin had a goal and an assist while Marc-Andre Fleury made 23 saves to help the Pittsburgh Penguins take Game 1 of their Eastern Conference final series against the Carolina Hurricanes with a 3-2 win.

I go into forum, after forum, after forum, and all I can find about Game Five is about how classless the Carolina Hurricanes team is.

By HOWARD ULMAN Scott Walker delivered the final knockout punch to the Boston Bruins.

Appropriately, being on Tobacco Road, you've got to wonder what certain members of the Carolina Hurricanes camp have been smoking.

For the Carolina Hurricanes, nothing could have looked finer. They drove into a homecoming party yesterday afternoon, the expectant fans eating, drinking and dancing throughout the RBC Center parking lots under a warm spring sun.

Mark Recchi and the Boston Bruins moved closer to giving the Carolina Hurricanes a different kind of knockout punch.

Carolina Hurricanes forward Scott Walker was fined $2,500 but will not be suspended by the NHL for throwing a punch that may have broken a bone in Boston defenseman Aaron Ward's face.

Carolina's Jussi Jokinen celebrates his winning goal on Wednesday. Photograph by: Streeter Lecka, Getty Images, The Edmonton Journal BRUINS AT HURRICANES Game 4 5:30 p.m. Media: TSN Hurricanes lead series 2-1 You know how it is when you're emptying your pockets to take some clothes to the cleaners and, lo and behold, you pull out $50? Like, where ...

Among the franchise records Ron Francis set in his two stints with the Hartford Whalers and Carolina Hurricanes are many that may never be broken.

Chad LaRose tried to beat up 6-foot-9 Boston defenseman Zdeno Chara a few months ago, but that didn't quite work.