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Carolina Hurricanes - Ice Hockey Wiki. The Carolina Hurricanes are a professional ice hockey team based in Raleigh, North Carolina. They are members of the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). They won their first Stanley Cup during the 2. Edmonton Oilers four games to three. Prior to 1. 99. 7, the team was known as the Hartford Whalers.
They play their home games at the RBC Center. For the first two- and- a- half years of their existence, the club played their home games at the Boston Arena, Boston Garden, and The Big E Coliseum in West Springfield, Massachusetts. However, sagging attendance forced the team to Connecticut.
On January 1. 1, 1. Hartford Civic Center Coliseum.
With the exception of a period in the late 1. Whalers played at the Springfield Civic Center while their Hartford home was being renovated (due to a portion of the roof collapsing after a blizzard), the franchise was largely located in Hartford. Because the NHL already had a team in the New England area, the Boston Bruins, the former WHA team was renamed the Hartford Whalers. Unfortunately, the team was never as successful in the NHL as they had been in the WHA, recording only three winning seasons. In July, Karmanos announced that the Whalers would move to the Research Triangle area of North Carolina and the new Entertainment and Sports Arena in Raleigh, become the Carolina Hurricanes, and change their team colors to red and black.
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Due to the relatively short time frame for the move, Karmanos himself thought of and decided upon the new name for the club, rather than holding a contest as is sometimes done. The Hurricanes were thus forced to play home games in Greensboro, ninety minutes away from Raleigh, for their first two seasons after the move. This displaced the American Hockey League's. Carolina Monarchs.
The Greensboro Coliseum seated over 2. Canes in the highest- capacity arena in the NHL. This choice was disastrous for the franchise's attendance and reputation. Most Triangle- area fans were unwilling to make the drive across I- 4.
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Greensboro. As for their part, fans from the Piedmont Triad wouldn't support a lame- duck team, and were still upset over ticket price hikes when the Monarchs moved from the East Coast Hockey League to the AHL in 1. Furthermore, only 2. ACC basketball, leaving these games totally unavailable to those who didn't have a ticket. With attendance routinely below the league average, Sports Illustrated ran a story titled . On the ice, however, the 'Canes were now out of the doldrums; led by the return of longtime Whalers captain Ron Francis, Keith Primeau's 3. Gary Roberts' 1. 78 penalty minutes, they won the new Southeast Division by eight points and made the playoffs for the first time since 1.
Tragedy struck hours after their first- round loss to the Bruins when defenceman. Steve Chiasson was thrown from his pickup truck and killed in a single- vehicle drunk- driving accident. In 2. 00. 0–0. 1, though, they claimed the eighth seed, which nosed out Boston, and landed a first- round date with the defending champs, the New Jersey Devils. Although the Hurricanes were bounced by the Devils in six games, the series is seen as the real . Down 3–0 in the series, the 'Canes extended it to a sixth game, thereby becoming only the tenth team in NHL history to do so.
Game six in Raleigh featured their best playoff crowd that year, as well as its noisiest. They survived a late charge from the Washington Capitals to win the division, but expectations were low entering the Round One against the defending Eastern Conference champion Devils. However, Arturs Irbe and Kevin Weekes were solid in goal, and two games were won by the Hurricanes in overtime as they put away the Devs in six games. The second- round matchup was against the Montreal Canadiens, who were riding a wave of emotion after their captain Saku Koivu's return from cancer treatment.
In the third period of Game 4 in Montreal, down 2–1 in games and 3–0 in score, Carolina would tie the game and then win on Niclas Wallin's overtime goal. The game became known to Hurricanes fans as the .
In game six in Toronto, the Leafs' Mats Sundin tied the game with 2. Carolina's Martin Gelinas would score to send the franchise to their first Stanley Cup Final, against the Detroit Red Wings, thought to be the prohibitive favorite all year. Though the Canes stunned the Wings in Game 1, when Francis scored in the first minute of OT, Detroit stormed back to win the next four games. Game 3 in Raleigh featured a triple- overtime thriller (won by Detroit's Igor Larionov, the eldest player to score a last- round goal), which sportscasters called one of the best Final games in history. Despite the 4–1 series loss, it had been by far the most successful season in franchise history. One of the few positive results of these losing years was the team's drafting of rising star Eric Staal in 2.
In December 2. 00. Paul Maurice, who had been their coach since their next- to- last season in Hartford, replacing him with former New York Islanders bench boss Peter Laviolette. Weekes remained tough, but offense was doubtful; center Josef Vasicek led the team with a mere 1. They finished with a 5. Whalers. It was the first time ever that the franchise had passed the 5. The 1. 12- point figure was one point behind the Ottawa Senators for the best record in the East, and secured their third Southeast Division title, finishing 2.
Tampa Bay Lightning. Attendance increased from 2. Hartford. The Hurricanes went on to win both games in Montreal, tying up the playoff series and turning the momentum around, winning the series on a Game Six overtime goal by Cory Stillman. Stillman struck again, once again scoring the series- winning goal.
The Sabres were devastated by injuries, at one point playing without their top four defensemen. Rod Brind'Amour scored the game winner as the Hurricanes reached the Stanley Cup Final for the second time in team history. The Canes rallied from a 3–0 deficit in Game 1 to win 5–4 after Rod Brind'Amour scored with 3. In Game 2, the 'Canes shelled the Oilers 5–0 to take a two- game lead. Carolina rebounded in Game 4 with a 2–1 victory, and came home with a chance to win the Cup on home ice.
However, game five saw the Oilers come back with a stunning 4–3 overtime win on a shorthanded breakaway by Fernando Pisani. Suddenly the momentum started to turn the Oilers' way. In Game 6 in Edmonton, Carolina was soundly defeated 4–0.
As well, they are the only NHL team in history to lose nine or more games in a year's playoffs, yet still win the Stanley Cup. The only other Hall member to have played in a Hurricanes jersey is Paul Coffey, who spent one and a half seasons in Carolina near the end of his career (as well as, two seasons prior, twenty games in Hartford). Figures are updated after each completed NHL regular season.
Boston Bruins. Most wins in a season: 5. Most points in a season: 1. Miscellaneous. Edit. The Hurricanes received their new name a few months after a particularly active hurricane season for North Carolina in 1. Hurricane Fran, that hit Raleigh directly. A hurricane warning is indicated by two such flags, but showing two flags flying from the hockey stick would be aesthetically awkward.
They remain one of 3 teams (the others are New Jersey and Detroit) who have yet to issue one. By the Eastern Conference Final, the pre- game party atmosphere drew major attention from Canadian and northern- based media as a hockey novelty. In 2. 00. 2, CBC analyst Don Cherry called RBC Center . Official records for arena volume are not kept due to the difficulty of standardizing this measurement across different game situations and arena acoustic environments, but the 1. B recorded by arena staff during Game 5 of the 2. ECF broke an unofficial record held by Sacramento Kings fans at Arco Arena. As during the 2. 00.
The team saw crowds of various sizes gather there after every return trip during the 2. On the Leap of Faith DVD, the Hardys can be seen wearing Hurricanes shirts.