Carolina Hurricanes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Carolina Hurricanes is an American professional ice hockey team based in Raleigh, North Carolina, that competes in the National Hockey League (NHL). The Hurricanes are a member club of the league's Metropolitan Division in the Eastern Conference. The Hurricanes play their home games at the 1. PNC Arena. They are the only major league professional sports team in North Carolina to play in Raleigh; the state's other two major franchises, the NFL's Carolina Panthers and the NBA's Charlotte Hornets, are based in Charlotte. The Hurricanes were formed in 1. New England Whalers of the World Hockey Association (WHA), and joined the NHL in 1. NHL. The team relocated to North Carolina in 1. Stanley Cup during the 2. For the first two years of their existence, the club played their home games at the Boston Arena and Boston Garden. With the increasing difficulty of scheduling games at Boston Garden (owned by the NHL rival Boston Bruins), the owners decided to move the team to Hartford, Connecticut, beginning with the 1. While waiting for the completion of a new arena in Hartford, the Whalers played the first part of the season at The Big E Coliseum in West Springfield, Massachusetts. On January 1. 1, 1. Hartford Civic Center Coliseum, and would maintain its home there through 1. As one of the most stable WHA teams, the Whalers, along with the Edmonton Oilers, Quebec Nordiques and Winnipeg Jets, were admitted to the NHL when the rival leagues merged in 1. 2006 Stanley Cup Champions. Carolina Beats Buffalo to Advance to Stanley Cup Finals; Ward's First NHL Shutout. In the aftermath of victory, with the 2006 Stanley Cup won and the arena in bedlam, Rod Brind’Amour says he couldn’t hear a thing. Brind’Amour, the Carolina Hurricanes captain, could see NHL commissioner Gary Bettman. Carolina Hurricanes Statistics 2005-2006. Record: 52-22-8 (112 points), Finished 1st in NHL Southeast Division (Schedule and Results) Coach: Peter Laviolette (52-22-8) Captain: Rod Brind'Amour. 2005-06 Stanley Cup Champions. Goals For: 294 (3rd of. However, under pressure from the extant NHL team in the New England area, the Boston Bruins, the Whalers were compelled to rename the team the Hartford Whalers. The Whalers were never as successful in the NHL as they had been in the WHA, recording only three winning seasons. They peaked in the mid- to- late 1. Nordiques before bowing out in the second round to the Montreal Canadiens, taking the Habs to overtime of Game 7 in the process. The next year, the club secured the regular- season Adams Division title, only to fall to the Nordiques in six games in the first round of the playoffs. In 1. 99. 2, the Whalers made the playoffs for the final time, but were bounced in the first round in seven games by the Canadiens. North Carolina (1. Hartford was the smallest American market in the league, and was located on the traditional dividing line between the home territories for New York City and Boston teams. It did not help matters that the Hartford Civic Center was one of the smallest arenas in the league, seating just over 1. The Whalers' off- ice problems were magnified when the start of the 1. Despite assurances made when he purchased the team in 1. Amazon.com: NHL Stanley Cup 2005-2006 Champions - Carolina Hurricanes: Carolina Hurricanes, Rod Brind'Amour, Cam Ward, Peter Laviolette, Matt Cullen: Sports & Outdoors. Whalers would remain in Hartford at least through 1. March 1. 99. 7, owner Peter Karmanos announced that the team would move elsewhere after the 1. On May 6, 1. 99. 7, Karmanos announced that the Whalers would move to the Research Triangle area of North Carolina and the new Entertainment and Sports Arena (ESA) in Raleigh. Due to the relatively short time frame for the move, Karmanos himself thought of and decided upon the new name for the club, the Carolina Hurricanes, rather than holding a contest as is sometimes done. CHAMPIONSHIP DVD PREMIERE SET FOR.Later that summer, the team dropped the Whalers' colors of blue, green and silver for a new black- and- red scheme, matching the colors of the North Carolina State University Wolfpack, with whose men's basketball team they would share the arena in Raleigh. The Hurricanes inherited the Whalers' place in the Northeast Division. Unfortunately, the ESA would not be complete for two more years. The only arena in the Triangle area with an ice plant was 4. Dorton Arena; at 5,1. The Hurricanes were thus forced to play home games in Greensboro, 9. Raleigh, for their first two seasons after the move. However, the team would be based in Raleigh and practice in nearby Hillsborough. This choice was disastrous for the franchise's attendance and reputation. With a capacity of over 2. Greensboro Coliseum was the highest- capacity arena in the NHL. However, Triangle- area fans balked at making the 8. I- 4. 0 to Greensboro. Likewise, fans from the Piedmont Triad mostly refused to support a lame- duck team that had displaced the Greensboro/Carolina Monarchs minor- league franchise. As a result, while the opening game drew a sellout (and is still the largest home crowd in franchise history), most games in Greensboro attracted crowds of 1. The crowds looked even smaller than that in the cavernous environment. Furthermore, only 2. WPTF was often pre- empted by Wolfpack basketball (for whose broadcasts WPTF was the flagship station), leaving these games totally unavailable to those who did not have a ticket. With by far the smallest season- ticket base in the NHL and attendance figures routinely well below the league average, Sports Illustrated ran a story titled . Attendance continued to lag; most games attracted crowds of well under 1. 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 tallied their first winning season and playoff appearance since 1. They also won the new Southeast Division by eight points, only their second division title as an NHL team (following the 1. Adams Division title as the Whalers). However, tragedy struck hours after the team's 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. The triangle behind the flag represents North Carolina's Research Triangle. Despite their move to the brand- new ESA, the Hurricanes played lackluster hockey in 1. Although the Devils eliminated the Hurricanes in six games, the series is seen as the real . Game 6 in Raleigh featured their best playoff crowd that year, as well as their loudest. They survived a late charge from the Washington Capitals to win the division, but expectations were low entering the first round against the defending Eastern Conference champion New Jersey Devils. Their 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. The game became known to Hurricanes fans as the . In Game 6 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 Finals appearance. During this series, several Hurricanes fan traditions drew hockey- wide media attention for the first time: fans met the team at the airport on the return from every road trip, and echoed football- season habits honed for games across the parking lot by hosting massive tailgate parties before each home game, a relative novelty in the cold- weather- centric NHL. Inside the building, the CBC's Don Cherry lauded the RBC Center as . Though the 'Canes stunned the Wings in Game 1, when Ron Francis scored in the first minute of overtime, Detroit stormed back to win the next four games. Game 3 in Raleigh featured a triple- overtime thriller eventually won by Detroit's Igor Larionov, the oldest player to score a last- round goal. The Hurricanes looked poised to pick up where they left off in 2. After a similarly slow start to the 2. Under Laviolette, Weekes remained tough, but the offense was suspect; center Josef Vasicek led the team with a mere 1. Many of the new fans attracted to the team (and to hockey itself) during the 2. One of the few positive results of these losing years, however, was the team's drafting of future star Eric Staal in 2. The Hurricanes, however, turned out to be one of the NHL's biggest surprises, turning in the best season in the franchise's 3. They finished the regular season with a 5. It was the first time ever that the franchise had passed the 5. The 1. 12- point figure was good for fourth overall in the league, easily their highest overall finish as an NHL team (tied with third- overall Dallas Stars on points, but with one fewer win than the Stars) and second in the East (one point behind the Ottawa Senators). The Hurricanes also ran away with their third Southeast Division title, finishing 2. Tampa Bay Lightning. Attendance increased from 2. 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 6 overtime goal by Cory Stillman. Carolina then faced the New Jersey Devils in the conference semifinals, which proved surprisingly one- sided, as the Hurricanes beat the Devils in five games. Stillman struck again, once again scoring the series- winning goal. In the Eastern Conference Finals, the Hurricanes faced the Buffalo Sabres, who had finished just one spot behind the Hurricanes in the overall standings. The contentious series saw both coaches . Rod Brind'Amour scored the game winner as the Hurricanes reached the Stanley Cup finals for the second time in team history. The Stanley Cup Finals were against the Edmonton Oilers, the first time in NHL history that two former WHA franchises had played against one another in the finals. The Hurricanes rallied from a 3. In Game 2, the Hurricanes shelled the Oilers 5. Carolina rebounded in Game 4 with a 2. However, Game 5 saw the Oilers come back with a stunning 4. In Game 6 in Edmonton, Carolina was soundly defeated 4. Ward was honored with the Conn Smythe Trophy for the playoffs' most valuable player, becoming just the fourth rookie to be honored with the award. Several Hurricanes raised the Cup for the first time in their long NHL careers; Rod Brind'Amour and Bret Hedican had both played over 1. Cup, while Glen Wesley . As well, they were the first NHL team to win the Stanley Cup despite losing at least nine playoff games in that year; the 2. Boston Bruins, and the 2. Los Angeles Kings are the only other teams to have accomplished the feat. After the Cup. Losing four players to free agency in the offseason and 2. Stanley Cup Finals - Ice Hockey Wiki. The 2. 00. 6 Stanley Cup Final. NHL championship series was contested by the Eastern Conference champions Carolina Hurricanes and the Western Conference champions Edmonton Oilers. It was the Hurricanes second appearance in the Final, the other being in 2. Final when they lost to the Detroit Red Wings. It was the Oilers first appearance since they won their fifth Stanley Cup in team history in the 1. Final. Carolina defeated Edmonton four games to three to win the franchise's first Stanley Cup and second league championship (the club, known then as the New England Whalers won the 1. Avco World Trophy final). Detroit Red Wings 4–2, the San Jose Sharks 4–2 and the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim 4–1 to advance to the Final. This marked the first time since the current Conference- based playoff format, debuted in 1. Finals. The Winnipeg Jets/Phoenix Coyotes team is the only former WHA club to have never contested an NHL Final. As a result of the new scheduling formula that was implemented before the 2. NHL season, the Hurricanes and the Oilers did not meet during the regular season. Even more interestingly, it would also prove to be the first Finals contested by teams that would both go on to miss the following years' playoffs. Prior to these Finals, only the 1. Chicago Black Hawks had ever missed the playoffs one year, then played in the Stanley Cup Final (win or lose) the following season, and then missed the playoffs again the season after that. Both the Hurricanes and Oilers have now accomplished this dubious feat. Edmonton scored first, 8: 1. Fernando Pisani. In the second period, Chris Pronger scored the first penalty shot goal in Stanley Cup Finals history after defenceman Niclas Wallin illegally covered the puck inside his own goal crease, and Ethan Moreau's goal at 1. Oilers a 3–0 lead. But at the 1. 7: 1. Rod Brind'Amour scored the Hurricanes' first goal of the game. Carolina then tied the game in the third period with two scores by Ray Whitney. The Hurricanes jumped ahead, 4–3, on a shorthanded breakaway goal by Justin Williams, but Edmonton's Ales Hemsky scored on a power play to tie the game with 6: 2. Late in the final period, Oilers goalie Dwayne Roloson suffered a series- ending knee injury in a collision and was replaced with Ty Conklin. With 3. 2 seconds to go in regulation, Conklin misplayed the puck behind his own net, and it deflected off Jason Smith's stick to the front of the empty net, allowing Brind'Amour to score the winning goal. Although Markkanen had played 3. Ty Conklin and Mike Morrison - he had watched the entire post- season from the press box (Conklin sat on the bench as the backup); he also had not played in a game since March 1, 2. The Hurricanes shut out the Oilers, 5–0, with five different Carolina players scoring goals. Markkanen was Edmonton's third goaltender in the series. It was the first time three goaltenders had been used in a Cup Finals since May 1. St. Louis Blues employed Jacques Plante, Glenn Hall and Ernie Wakely on their way to being swept by the Boston Bruins. Shawn Horcoff scored just over two minutes into the first period. During the second period, a short- handed goal was waved off by the referee, because he had lost sight of the puck and had blown the whistle, despite the fact that the puck had not yet been covered. The Hurricanes responded midway through the third period with their captain, Rod Brind'Amour, taking a rebound off a blocked shot past Markkanen. However, with 2: 1. Edmonton's Ryan Smyth scored the winning goal after crashing into Ward inside the crease as they both tried to get control of a rebound off of a shot by Ales Hemsky. Hurricanes head coach Peter Laviolette and many other Carolina players complained that Smyth should have been penalized for interference, but no penalty was called since the referees felt that he did not make enough contact with Ward to prevent him from attempting a save. However, the lead was short- lived as Cory Stillman replied just 2. Stillman also made a fine defensive play on Chris Pronger late in the second period, tipping the puck away in the Edmonton zone to the front of the net, where Eric Staal fed a nice pass over to Mark Recchi, who slammed home the game- winning goal with 4: 0. Once again Edmonton's power- play was futile, failing to capitalize on five chances, including a 2- man advantage in the first period. When the game ended, the Oilers were 1- for- 2. However, Edmonton scored first on Fernando Pisani's redirect of a Pronger slapshot 1. The Hurricanes then went ahead, 2–1, on two power- play goals by Staal and Whitney before the Oilers scored on the power play with a beautiful one- timer by Hemsky to tie the game. Peca then gave Edmonton a 3–2 lead with 1. In the second period, Staal poked one between Markkanen and the post to tie the game. The game went to overtime, and Recchi drew a penalty early in the period to put the Hurricanes on the power play. Edmonton held Carolina to seven shots through 4. Fernando Pisani got his post- season high fifth game winning goal (and 1. This game also marked Markkanen's first career playoff shutout. Aaron Ward and Frantisek Kaberle gave Carolina a 2–0 lead before Pisani scored for Edmonton at 1: 0. Cam Ward became the first NHL rookie goalie to win a Stanley Cup Finals series since Patrick Roy lead the Montreal Canadiens in 1. Philadelphia Flyers' Ron Hextall in 1. Conn Smythe Trophy as Most Valuable Player in the playoffs. He had played close to 1,5. Cup, the longest such drought in the NHL. Wesley was the last player remaining from the franchise's days as the Hartford Whalers. Other notable veterans to win their first Cup were Rod Brind'Amour, Doug Weight, Ray Whitney, and Bret Hedican. Mark Recchi won the second Cup of his career, having won 1. Pittsburgh Penguins. This also marked the third straight occurrence of the Curse of Detroit, where since the last time the Detroit Red Wings won the Stanley Cup in 2. Western Conference team that defeated the Detroit Red Wings during the playoffs went on to the finals, and lost the series to the Eastern Conference team in seven games. The curse would be lifted in 2. Anaheim Ducks, who defeated the Red Wings in the West final and went on to win the Stanley Cup Finals over Ottawa. Jeff Daniels also played in 2. Assistant Coach in 2. Assistant Coach Kevin Mc. Carthy was the only remaining member of 2. Carolina Coaching Staff. Jacques was able to correct the mistake and removed the last .
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