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Trade Rumors

Luke Decock of the News & Observer makes the suggestion that along with the regular bunch (Allen, Gleason, and Ruutu) the Hurricanes could possibly also move defenseman Jaroslav Spacek, and Alexei Ponikarovsky at (or before) the trade deadline. Nothing too new in this rumor other the the fact that Decock mentions Ponikarovsky, and the only other time I’ve seen that named dropped thus far is when I posted it back on December 28th. Decock is closer to the source then I am up here in Canada and I’m glad he brought it up.

Ted Kulfman of the Detroit news recently wrote that the Detroit Red Wings have a bit of room to add another player or two to their roster for another playoff run. Kulfman mentions Carolina’s forward Tuomo Ruutu and defenseman Bryan Allen as possible targets. This is the first time I’ve seen Ruutu’s name linked to a specific team (even though he’s been the subject of trade talks for the past few weeks) as for Allen I think that he’s a plan B guy for a lot of teams looking to add a defenseman for a playoff push.

Congratulations Sweden!

It took Sweden six wins (four coming in overtime), defeating the defending Champions (twice), 26 goals (tied for the most in the tournament), but no moment was bigger then when Ottawa Senators prospect Mika Zibanejad scored 10:09 into the extra period and won the game for Team Sweden 1 – 0.

Last night was the first time since 1981 that Sweden won gold at this tournament, so a big congratulations goes out to all of them, for the Hurricanes organization they’ve got to be happy because their second round draft pick from last year (Victor Rask) won a gold medal, and for this site specifically I’m happy for both of those reasons plus this site is now 2 – 0 when wishing a country good luck in the gold medal round.

Make sure you vote!

Because I didn’t get a post up yesterday about it I just wanted to remind everyone who views this site (or any site this gets posted on) to go to the following link to vote for the 2012 AHL All – Stars (vote here) If you have no rooting interest, then let me suggest you vote for the Charlotte Checkers Jerome Samson and Jon Matsumoto.

Brief background on each player from my last post:

Jerome Samson [measurements: 6’0” 195lbs] went undrafted and signed with the Carolina Hurricanes in 2007 to a three year entry level deal. Samson has played 296 games with the Charlotte Checkers (who are formerly known as the Albany River Rats), scoring 120 goals and picking up 131 assists (251 points in 296 games.)

Jon Matsumoto [measurements 6’0” 184lbs] was traded on June 26th 2010 by the Philadelphia Flyers to the Carolina Hurricanes for a seventh round draft pick. In his first season with the Charlotte Checkers Jon Matsumoto scored 20 goals and picked up 28 assists in 65 games. This season Matsumoto leads all Checkers with 29 points in 34 games (13 goals / 16 assists.)

So once again head to this link or theahl.com to vote, heck maybe you could even win the team signed authentic 2012 AHL All – Star jersey (or donate it to your favorite Carolina Hurricanes blogger.)