Niclas Wallin News

The Carolina Hurricanes finally have another victory in regulation. Chad LaRose scored his first goal of the season.

The other worst team in the NHL visits the RBC Center tonight, with the Carolina Hurricanes and Toronto Maple Leafs each stuck on 11 points.

Canadiens' Guillaume Latendresse, right, gets a piece of Carolina's Niclas Wallin in the first period.

At home in Prince Edward Island, Canada, he's known as Lyle Richardson . But around these parts, he's known as Spector, FOXSports.com's Prince of Pucks.

In the winter of 2003, after a dismal six-goal loss to the Los Angeles Kings, the Carolina Hurricanes reached the inevitable conclusion that no matter how hard anyone tried or what anyone did, their season was only getting worse.

So much for that strong start to the season that the Carolina Hurricanes deemed so important.

Paul Stastny scored a pair of goals and dished out an assist, as the Colorado Avalanche outlasted the Carolina Hurricanes, 5-4, at the Pepsi Center.Wojtek Wolski, Milan Hejduk, and Ryan O'Reilly each had a goal and an assist for the Avalanche, who have won five of their past six games.

John Tavares scored in the shootout to give the New York Islanders their first victory of the season, 4-3 over the Carolina Hurricanes on Wednesday night.

RALEIGH Defenseman Joni Pitkanen didn't practice with the Carolina Hurricanes on Monday after missing the past two games.

Jussi Jokinen had a goal and two assists, as the Carolina Hurricanes roughed up the Florida Panthers, 7-2, at RBC Center.

Niclas Wallin , Scott Walker, Rod Brind'Amour, Ray Whitney and Matt Cullen have played a combined 1,762 games for the Carolina Hurricanes.

As he enters his ninth season with the Carolina Hurricanes, Niclas Wallin has seen a lot of fellow defensemen come and go.

If you had July 2009 in the "When will Aaron Ward return to the Carolina Hurricanes?" pool, step right up and collect.

It will be four or five years before we know how the Carolina Hurricanes did in the draft last weekend, although they deserve credit for breaking new ground, by their standards, in terms of location and philosophy .

The Penguins led the Carolina Hurricanes, 2-1, after the first period of Game 4 of the Eastern Conference final tonight at RBC Center.

There's no escaping the cruel reality that they're dead men skating, but at least the Carolina Hurricanes had an opportunity Sunday and part of Monday to leave their anguish at the office.

Ruutu, Cole are question marks Niclas Wallin, left, checks on teammate Erik Cole afer the Carolina winger was injured in a collision with Matt Cooke during the third period of Game 1 against the Pittsburgh Penguins.

Mike Prisuta is a sports columnist for the Tribune-Review. He can be reached via e-mail or at 412-320-7923. There's Stanley Cup experience, and then there's Stanley Cup experience.

Sometimes things have a way of working out. You had your festive Celtics evening up there, where a good time was surely had by all.

RALEIGH a ' The Carolina Hurricanes' overtime hero, Jussi Jokinen, scored yet another big game-winning goal.