With Ward out, Canes sign goalie Legace

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With Ward out, Canes sign goalie Legace

DETROIT - MARCH 28: Manny Legace #34 of the St.Louis Blues stands for the National Anthem as does his former team the Detroit Red Wings during their NHL game at Joe Louis Arena March 28, 2008 in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo By Dave Sandford/Getty Images)

By Mike Maniscalco

Nov 10, 2009

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Raleigh, N.C. — The Carolina Hurricanes are adding goaltender Manny Legace to fill in for the injured Cam Ward. The starting goalie suffered a cut to his leg Saturday and it expected to miss at least a month.

Legace, a 36-year-old free agent, had been playing with the AHL's Chicago Wolves in a "professional try-out."

"Whatever they want, I'll do," Legace told 99.9 FM The Fan after Monday's practice.

"I'll go sell popcorn if they want me to, it doesn't really matter. I'm just glad that I'm here. I'm just going to try to work hard and stop the puck."

Ward was injured Saturday night in Columbus when Rick Nash's skate blade cut Ward's left leg. The injury, while serious, is not thought to be season-ending.

Back-up Michael Leighton is the only other goaltender on the Canes' NHL roster.

Ward returned to Raleigh Monday.

Legace played in the NHL last season with St. Louis. He has also played for the Los Angeles Kings and Detroit Red Wings.

Legace accepted a camp invitation by the Atlanta Thrashers and was released Sept. 28. Legace was an All-Star in 2008 with the Blues and has a career record of 177-92-36, a goals against of 2.38 and a .912 save percentage.

His one-year deal with the Canes is worth $500,000 at the NHL level, but he can be sent down to the minors later in the season.

The Canes are currently on a 12-game winless slide.

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RE: With Ward out, Canes sign goalie Legace

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RE: With Ward out, Canes sign goalie Legace

better go ahead and book nc state games only for that esa, er, rbc center. hockey is over in 4 years anyway. looks like too many canes had too many fried turkey legs or fried butter at the state fair. maybe that's why they are complacent losers. or, it could be that they finally started playing to their level. rick flair is not the coach. remember that.
- Posted by edwardocorrochio

This guy is a King's fan. Notice he wasn't here last year because the King's stunk and were dead last. Now he wants to run his mouth on our board this year since they are doing well. He will probably be all over this board running his mouth after tomorrow. He's trying to set us up.

RE: With Ward out, Canes sign goalie Legace

"No, Staal needs to learn to work harder and play smarter. He's in the big league now and he needs to prove himself night in, night out. He has a number of hard-working good players around him, but he's just not producing. It's not them, it's him."

Staal needs a set up man and he will be a 50 goal scorer. The guy plays more than any other forward and should be the captain. Problem is teams can focus on him because the other Cane threats are minimal at best.
- Posted by viking416

It's funny to see the Staal supporters blame others for Staal's problems. It's not everyone else, it's him. As you said, he's on the ice more than any other forward. He's getting the minutes, but he's not producing. Great players don't become so by standing around waiting for someone else, a "setup man" to make them look good, they make things happen themselves. The great players make others better. Look at the stats of most of those considered great players and great leaders. Nearly every one of them had way more assists than goals. Now look at Staal's stats. While he does have more assists than goals, the numbers aren't skewed toward assists like they are for the great ones.

Also, players don't become captain based on TOI, which seems to be what you are asserting, they become captain because of their leadership. They become captain because they make the entire team better. They become captain by giving their all every game. Staal has much to learn and much more to prove before he's deserving of becoming a captain.

RE: With Ward out, Canes sign goalie Legace

This team has lots of problems besides Cam Ward. Anyone who was at the San Jose game a few weeks ago might have seen an incident where a Sharks player had gone into the crease for a play and "fell" onto Cam Ward. May have been unintentional, hard to tell from the 300 seats. However he was slow to get up and get back in the play. After basically sitting on our goalie, he finally got up and gave Erik Cole a heavy shove who was standing right there watching while his goalie was getting punked by a lone forward. Cole just looked at him while he skated off. This whole team needs to grow some nuts.

We have too many secondary players who aren't earning their salaries and we have nothing left over to pay to get some real talent in here. Our defense is and has always been dismal. But our number one problem is our offense this season. If we could score three goals every game, Ward has at least a 50-50 chance to get us the win. Four goals a game, he gets the win almost every time. Pretty simple. You can't expect Ward to allow only one or two goals EVERY night. He's not Brodeur.

RE: With Ward out, Canes sign goalie Legace

"No, Staal needs to learn to work harder and play smarter. He's in the big league now and he needs to prove himself night in, night out. He has a number of hard-working good players around him, but he's just not producing. It's not them, it's him."

Staal needs a set up man and he will be a 50 goal scorer. The guy plays more than any other forward and should be the captain. Problem is teams can focus on him because the other Cane threats are minimal at best.

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