hockeyinsight.com (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
... the playoffs last year, I have despised them. I also think it was a huge mistake for them to fire Peter Laviolette (a former Stanley Cup winning coach and former Providence Bruins coach) and bring on Paul Maurice last year. Winning coaches get dumped all the time (John Tortorella and Ken Hitchcock are two that come quickly to mind) but I have never been impressed with Maurice. In...
Kukla's Korner (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
from Greg Wyshynski of PuckDaddy, Here are the Top 9 NHL Teams of the Last Decade ... 9. 2005-06 Carolina Hurricanes A Southeast Division champion with 112 points in the first regular season following the lockout, Peter Laviolette’s group had four 30-goal scorers including Eric Staal’s 45-goal, 100-point career year. Outside of their star center, it was a solid but unspectacular...
Kukla's Korner (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
... a horrible start and its top players struggling. A possible replacement if Trotz is fired could be Peter Laviolette, who was fired as Hurricanes coach last December. Confirm or deny: The NHL will have to pay $80 million to Coyotes owner Jerry Moyes and another $22 million to former coach Wayne Gretzky if it wants to assume control of the franchise. Lightning GM Brian Lawton could...
Kukla's Korner (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
... a year ago who were bad early last year too, only to turn it around after the coaching change from Peter Laviolette to Paul Maurice energized them in the final third of the season and into the playoffs. read on plus other NHL topics…
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
Loose pucks Might Peter Laviolette get another kick at the can behind the Islander bench? Possibly . . . When the Islanders finally won a game last week, edging the Hurricanes in a shootout, the then-0-6-1 Leafs became the only winless team in the league. The record of season-opening futility, by the way, remains 15 games, held by the 1943-44 Rangers (what was then a 50-game regular season)...
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
... a year ago who were bad early last year too, only to turn it around after the coaching change from Peter Laviolette to Paul Maurice energized them in the final third of the season and into the playoffs. There is an all-or-nothing quality to the Hurricanes organization this past decade, marked by one championship (2006), a second trip to the final (2002), a startling run through the...
