Rod Brind'Amour News

Two teams. Two huge disappointments. But after tonighta s game only one will lay claim to the title of worst team in the National Hockey League.

Rod Brind'Amour The two old hands have more than 3,000 games between them, playoffs included, so it would be nice to see them facing off here and there.

Like the proverbial husband, On the Fly freely admits it often doesn't see things coming.

Jason Blake, seen here in a game against the Carolina Hurricanes on Nov. 6, 2009, is frequently mentioned as one of the Leafs' underachievers so far this season.

Carey Price stopped all six Carolina attempts in the shootout, Maxim Lapierre scored the winner and the Montreal Canadiens beat the Hurricanes 3-2 Tuesday night.

Can Carolina win a game? At all? That's what it's come to for the franchise that overachieved last spring and advanced to the Eastern Conference finals.

The Carolina Hurricanes are desperate to make changes, but GM Jim Rutherford is finding it difficult.

Jason Blake got the winner but Jonas Gustavsson earned the save. A whole bunch of them, in fact.

Jason Blake scored on a power play with 8:24 left and Jonas Gustavsson made 34 saves to help the Toronto Maple Leafs win for the second time in 14 games this season, 3-2 over the Carolina Hurricanes on Friday night.

Scoring first is as big a topic in the Toronto Maple Leafs' dressing room as H1N1 flu is everywhere else.

Rod Brind'Amour doesn't have the answer. Ray Whitney doesn't have it. Neither does any other Carolina Hurricanes player.

The Carolina Hurricanes completed a three-game stretch of brutal results Sunday afternoon.

David Perron had two goals, Yan Stastny and Jay McClement scored 16 seconds apart, and Chris Mason made 34 saves to help the St.

The Carolina Hurricanes lost an early lead. They lost forward Tuomo Ruutu, who had a goal and assist, to a game misconduct.

Colorado Avalanche forward Darcy Tucker was taken off the ice on a backboard after he was checked into the boards by Carolina forward Tuomo Ruutu.

Devils rookie Matt Halischuk took a stick to the face in Saturday's game against the Hurricanes.

Carolina's Scott Walker, right, scores the overtime winner during Game 7 of the Hurricanes's second-round playoff series against Boston last season.

It's all up to Sergei Samsonov. Who'd a thunk it? Well, all right, so that overstates things just a tad.

Listen to Carolina coach Paul Maurice , and it becomes clear that he sees no point in second-guessing what happened during the Eastern Conference final this spring, that he wastes no time wondering what might have been.

Only Joni Pitkanen knows if his knee will have recovered enough for the Carolina Hurricanes defenseman to play Wednesday.