Nov 3, 2009
Winless in their last nine games, the Carolina Hurricanes' terrible start has general manager Jim Rutherford interested in shaking up his roster.
The Canes' GM joined The Insiders on 99.9 FM The Fan on Monday. Rutherford says the team isn't sure about the injury status of Eric Staal, but he's looking at some potential roster moves regardless.
"I had hoped to wait until the end of November to really see if the team could come together," Rutherford told The Insiders.
"Here we go again, with the injury to our best player. So, I'm starting to talk to other teams a lot more now. And, I'm embarrassed to say that this early in the season."
It has been more than three weeks since the Canes won a game, Oct. 9 against the Panthers.
"It's just figuring out how to win one game, and at least getting some breaks in a game that we can win," Rutherford said. "We get absolutely no breaks at all, but that goes with losing. Our discipline's not good, we're taking way too many penalties. Everything that can go wrong, is going wrong."
After a dreadful October in which the Hurricanes went 2-7-3, November got off to a rough start too. The Canes dropped a home game to the Sharks 5-1 and may have also lost Staal for a few games. Rutherford wasn't certain regarding Staal's status as of Monday afternoon, but said the team's trainers weren't optimistic after Sunday's injury.
"Right after the game they were saying that they felt he would miss some games," Rutherford said.
- Posted by babedan- Posted by editsThe player that has to go is Joe Corvo. Joe is a cancer to this team and has been every since he had that interview in game 3 against the Pens. Where he had already Given up. Last Sunday, his unwillingness to bring the puck out from behind the net is just an example of how he is single handly hurting this team. Get rid of Corvo bring back Casey Bowyer and let's see if this team can rebound.- Posted by babedan
I was at the game and the reason he did not bring the puck out from behind the net is because the other players on the team were not in position. He was merely trying to avoid a turnover. He was not the only one, Pitkanen did it as well. behind the net is the safest place on the ice when trying to reset your offense, you have the goalie and the goal between you and the opposing player. You have control of the puck, a full view of the ice and time to make a decision about how to play the puck.
That may be true but the opposing team was laying on the boards at the blue line, he had wingers on both sides of him and had the center of the ice open and he did not move. We got him because they said he was a puck handling defenseman. If he can't bring the puck up from behind the net then there is a problem. No, I still say he is a cancer to this team, him and his attitude needs to go. Once a quitter always a quitter.
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