Latest news with #Stankoven
NBC Sports
27-05-2025
- Sport
- NBC Sports
Hurricanes' 15-loss streak in East finals games is over. Rod Brind'Amour is thrilled by that
SUNRISE, Fla. — Go back to June 1, 2006. Rod Brind'Amour was a captain then; he's a coach now. Logan Stankoven was 3 years old then; he's a budding star now. And in those days, when people talked about Cam Ward, they meant the goalie for the Carolina Hurricanes, not the quarterback for the Miami Hurricanes. That was also the last day on which Carolina won an Eastern Conference finals game. It's over. Not the season. The streak. Carolina's 15-game streak of consecutive losses in the East finals ended with the Hurricanes beating the Florida Panthers 3-0 in Game 4 of their matchup. It was Carolina's first win in the East finals since June 1, 2006 against Buffalo, a night where Brind'Amour — then the Hurricanes' captain — got the game-winning goal. 'You know what? I didn't even think about that,' Brind'Amour said. 'But that's nice.' Carolina's winning goal came from Stankoven, someone whose future Brind'Amour raves about. Stankoven has no idea of the circumstances surrounding what had been Carolina's most recent East finals win; considering he was a toddler when it happened, that's understandable. The odds of overcoming a 3-0 series deficit are overwhelmingly slim. A 3-1 deficit is no picnic either, but the Hurricanes at least know now that they can beat the Panthers in the playoffs. 'It's just what you can do,' Stankoven said. 'You start with one and go from there. We just try and preach about winning a period and going from there. And I think it was nice to get the lead tonight as well and play on our toes instead of on our heels.' Under Brind'Amour, the Hurricanes have gone to the playoffs in seven consecutive seasons but have no Stanley Cups — or even Stanley Cup Final trips — to show for it. The seven straight playoff berths is the fourth-longest active run in the NHL, behind only Toronto's nine, Colorado's eight and Tampa Bay's eight. The Lightning have two Cups in that span, the Avalanche have one. This looked like it could have been the team to change the fortunes for Carolina. The Hurricanes rolled through the first two rounds, ousting New Jersey in five games in Round 1 and then needing only five more games to eliminate NHL all-time scoring king Alex Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals in Round 2. They were a top 10 team this season in goals scored, a top 10 team this season in fewest goals allowed, had a pair of eight-game winning streaks this season and outscored the Devils and Capitals 34-18 in the first two rounds. Momentum was building until the first three games against Florida. Now going home for Game 5, the Hurricanes still have a chance. And streak talk, thankfully from Brind'Amour's perspective, will end. 'I mean, it means like nothing to these guys because half of them weren't here, but it's been a story,' Brind'Amour said. 'So, yeah, it's nice to not have to talk about that.'
Fox Sports
27-05-2025
- Sport
- Fox Sports
Hurricanes' 15-loss streak in East finals games is over. And Rod Brind'Amour is thrilled by that
Associated Press SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Go back to June 1, 2006. Rod Brind'Amour was a captain then; he's a coach now. Logan Stankoven was 3 years old then; he's a budding star now. And in those days, when people talked about Cam Ward, they meant the goalie for the Carolina Hurricanes, not the quarterback for the Miami Hurricanes. That was also the last day on which Carolina won an Eastern Conference finals game. Until Monday, that is. It's over. Not the season. The streak. Carolina's 15-game streak of consecutive losses in the East finals ended Monday night, with the Hurricanes beating the Florida Panthers 3-0 in Game 4 of their matchup. It was Carolina's first win in the East finals since June 1, 2006 against Buffalo, a night where Brind'Amour — then the Hurricanes' captain — got the game-winning goal. 'You know what? I didn't even think about that," Brind'Amour said. 'But that's nice.' Carolina's winning goal Monday came from Stankoven, someone whose future Brind'Amour raves about. Stankoven has no idea of the circumstances surrounding what had been Carolina's most recent East finals win before Monday; considering he was a toddler when it happened, that's understandable. The odds of overcoming a 3-0 series deficit are overwhelmingly slim. A 3-1 deficit is no picnic either, but the Hurricanes at least know now that they can beat the Panthers in the playoffs. 'It's just what you can do," Stankoven said. "You start with one and go from there. We just try and preach about winning a period and going from there. And I think it was nice to get the lead tonight as well and play on our toes instead of on our heels.' Under Brind'Amour, the Hurricanes have gone to the playoffs in seven consecutive seasons but have no Stanley Cups — or even Stanley Cup Final trips — to show for it. The seven straight playoff berths is the fourth-longest active run in the NHL, behind only Toronto's nine, Colorado's eight and Tampa Bay's eight. The Lightning have two Cups in that span, the Avalanche have one. This looked like it could have been the team to change the fortunes for Carolina. The Hurricanes rolled through the first two rounds, ousting New Jersey in five games in Round 1 and then needing only five more games to eliminate NHL all-time scoring king Alex Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals in Round 2. They were a top 10 team this season in goals scored, a top 10 team this season in fewest goals allowed, had a pair of eight-game winning streaks this season and outscored the Devils and Capitals 34-18 in the first two rounds. Momentum was building until the first three games against Florida. Now going home for Game 5, the Hurricanes still have a chance. And streak talk, thankfully from Brind'Amour's perspective, will end. 'I mean, it means like nothing to these guys because half of them weren't here, but it's been a story," Brind'Amour said. "So, yeah, it's nice to not have to talk about that.' ___ AP NHL playoffs: and recommended
UPI
27-05-2025
- Sport
- UPI
Hurricanes blank Panthers to extend NHL series, snap 18-year drought
SUNRISE, Fla., May 26 (UPI) -- Logan Stankoven unwound a smoldering wrist shot, buzzing Sergei Bobrovsky's right shoulder to launch a Carolina Hurricanes shutout of the Florida Panthers on Monday in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals. Stankoven's sizzler jump-started the 3-0 triumph in Sunrise, Fla., helped the Hurricanes avoid a sweep and extended the best-of-seven game series. Hurricanes goaltender Frederik Anderson responded to a Game 3 benching with a 20-save performance. "It's what you can do is start with one [win] and go from there," Stankoven said at his postgame news conference. "We just try and preach about winning a period and going from there. It was nice to play on our toes instead of on our heels." The win was the Hurricanes' first in an Eastern Conference finals since June 1, 2006 -- a sour streak that included 15 games over nearly 19 years. "It means like nothing to these guys because like half of them weren't here, but it's been a story," Hurricanes coach Rod Brind'Amour said, referring to the dismal streak. It's nice to not have to talk about that." The Panthers have been shut out at home just twice in the playoffs since 1997, but both of those losses occurred this postseason. "I'm exceptionally happy with the learning opportunity," Panthers coach Paul Maurice said. "There are consistent things in games that we don't love. Gotta give Carolina credit. They were quick, closed the gap, blocked some shots, hustled really hard. "They played a great game, for them, in terms of style." Hurricanes defenders smothered the previously potent Panthers offense throughout the night, using tight positioning and physicality to deny second-chance shooting opportunities. The Hurricanes outshot the Panthers 28-20. Neither team could find the net in the first period, but the Hurricanes continued to threaten Panthers goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky. They finally broke through with 9:15 remaining in the second frame, with Stankoven drawing first blood. Defenseman Alexander Nikishin started that play when he sent a blind backhanded pass to Stakoven along the left boards. The Hurricanes forward raced ahead, skated through the left circle and ripped his rope of a shot into the upper portion of the net. Panthers defenseman Nate Schmidt nearly tied the score less than a minute later when he drilled the post with an 85-mph attempt from long distance. The Panthers, who played without injured forwards Sam Reinhart and A.J. Greer and defenseman Niko Mikkola, continued to struggle down the stretch. The desperate Hurricanes delivered bone-splintering hits and rallied to the puck to consistently slow their favored foes. The Hurricanes appeared to double their lead with 13:33 remaining, but the score by Mark Jankowski was disallowed because of an offside call. They eventually added to their lead when Sebastian Aho and Jordan Staal scored empty-net goals with 2:11 and 1:45 left to play, respectively. Bobrovsky totaled 25 saves for the Panthers. Hurricanes forwards Seth Jarvis and Andrei Svechnikov, defenseman Brent Burns and Nikishin logged assists. The Hurricanes will host the Panthers in Game 5 at 8 p.m. EDT Wednesday at Lenovo Center. The winner will take on the Dallas Stars or Edmonton Oilers in the Stanley Cup Final. The Oilers, who have a 2-1 lead in the Western Conference finals, will host the Stars in Game 4 at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Edmonton.
Reuters
22-04-2025
- Sport
- Reuters
Hurricanes out for more 'chaos' vs. undermanned Devils
April 22 - The New Jersey Devils will be short-handed as they try to rebound in Game 2 of their Eastern Conference first-round series against the Carolina Hurricanes on Tuesday in Raleigh, N.C. The Devils, already without star forward Jack Hughes and defenseman Jonas Siegenthaler for the series because of injuries, had blue-liner Brenden Dillon leave Game 1 in the second period and forward Cody Glass in the third. Defenseman Luke Hughes also left in the third but returned to finish the game. Hughes joins Dillon in being ruled out for Game 2, per head coach Sheldon Keefe. Glass, however, is expected to play after taking an inadvertent stick to the legs from his teammate, goaltender Jacob Markstrom. The Hurricanes took advantage to earn a convincing 4-1 victory Sunday in the series opener. "To a man, myself included, we're all going to have to be better," Keefe said. Carolina outshot New Jersey 45-24 in Game 1. "(During) 5-on-5, I really didn't have a lot of issues with our game other than what we expected with the energy and the pace," Keefe said. "I thought in the second period, we were just overwhelmed and that was not good enough. Third period was good, but the damage is done by then." Hurricanes defenseman Jalen Chatfield scored early in the first period before forward Logan Stankoven scored twice in the second. Stankoven's second goal, on the power play, put Carolina up 3-0 before captain Nico Hischier got the Devils on the board with a little over a minute left in the middle period. Andrei Svechnikov added an empty-net goal late in the third period for Carolina. "For us to win, we're going to need 20 guys chipping in. I think that's what we got tonight," Hurricanes' coach Rod Brind'Amour said. "We were ready to go. That first goal, I think, is huge just to really settle everything. It allows you to keep staying the course." Chatfield scored on a screened wrist shot from the right point 2:24 into the game. "We called that play, we run it a lot," Chatfield said. "(It's) just getting pucks to the net. We did a good job getting to the front and causing chaos." Stankoven kept the momentum rolling in the second period with his pair of goals. "It was just nice to get the first one out of the way and start off on the right foot," Stankoven said. "When you come into a series, the first one is big, but there's a lot of hockey left to play. It was a lot of fun playing out there." Hischier's goal with 1:09 left in the second gave New Jersey some hope after they had been outshot 38-13 in the first two periods. "We have to work harder, create, create your own lanes to the net," New Jersey forward Timo Meier said. "They're strong and they battle hard, they compete, all things we know. And like I said, we have a game plan. We got to execute it better." Said Keefe: "We're not going to get a lot. That's the reality of it when you play a team like Carolina. They're going to make it real hard on you, but that said, you had more than enough to score more than we did. There are some opportunities there." --Field Level Media
New York Times
22-04-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
Logan Stankoven fitting in fast with Hurricanes after being other side of NHL trade deadline blockbuster
RALEIGH, N.C. — Everyone wanted to see Logan Stankoven play in Vancouver. His parents and sister made the four–hour drive from their home in Kamloops, British Columbia, and so did other family members and friends. Along with the group from Kamloops, loved ones trekked from the broader Okanagan region and Vancouver Island. In total, more than 400 people were planning to cheer on Stankoven and the Dallas Stars on March 9 against the Vancouver Canucks. The trip had been in the works since the fall. Advertisement There was one issue: When the time came, Stankoven wasn't on the Stars. Two days earlier, on deadline day, Dallas had traded Stankoven, two first-round picks and two third-round picks to the Carolina Hurricanes in a blockbuster trade that landed them Mikko Rantanen. Talk about bad timing. 'We were quite shocked,' says Wes Stankoven, Logan's father. 'Didn't see that coming at all.' Most of the group still wound up traveling to Vancouver, and before the Stars-Canucks game they packed into the Shark Club, a sports bar right next to Rogers Arena. Some still wore Stars jerseys with Stankoven's name and No. 11 on the back, and others had made a trip to Surrey to pick up Hurricanes gear. Stankoven's parents wore casual clothes. They're superstitious and have found he plays better when they don't wear his jersey. At the Shark Club, the group asked servers to turn the TVs to the Hurricanes' game against the Winnipeg Jets. They were 3,000 miles away, so it was far from an in-person experience, but it had to do. The huge Stankoven support group still got to watch their favorite player, now wearing No. 22, in NHL action. Stankoven scored a goal with the group watching, and the cheers in the Shark Club were so loud that it might as well have been a sports bar in Raleigh. Stankoven had arrived with the Hurricanes, and his impact was immediate. 'He's a very natural fit,' Carolina general manager Eric Tulsky says. 'He's very comfortable playing the way we want to play.' Rantanen, whom Carolina acquired in January from Colorado, is a premier player in the NHL. He averaged 97.2 points per year over the past four seasons, won a Stanley Cup with the Colorado Avalanche and twice finished in the top 10 of Hart Trophy voting. He was a pending unrestricted free agent when he got to Carolina, and the Hurricanes tried to sign him to an extension. When the star wing communicated he did not want to stay in Raleigh long-term, Tulsky flipped him to Dallas. Advertisement Stankoven was the centerpiece of the return. 'When we were talking about players who we thought might be available from them, he was the one who made everybody jump out of their seat and say, 'If we can get that guy, we need to,'' Tulsky says. Stankoven, the Stars' top prospect in colleague Scott Wheeler's rankings before he aged out this year, is only 22 years old. He does not have Rantanen's 6-foot-4 size — he's only 5-8 — but brings competitiveness, forechecking and offensive creation. Considering he still has another year to go before hitting restricted free agency, he's someone the Hurricanes believe can help them for years to come. He's more than just a future piece, though. Stankoven is helping Carolina in the present, too. He scored twice in the second period in the Hurricanes' first-round Game 1 win over the New Jersey Devils on Sunday: once from the slot off a Jordan Martinook pass, and once on the power play after a feed from Taylor Hall, whom Tulsky also acquired midseason. Coach Rod Brind'Amour has Stankoven on a line with Martinook and captain Jordan Staal, and the Hurricanes had nearly 60 percent of the expected goal share with them on the ice at five-on-five in the regular season. Stankoven certainly enjoyed scoring against the Devils, punching the air and shouting with glee after his second goal, but he believes the line can create more offensive zone time in the future. 'I love playing in the big games,' he said in his postgame news conference. 'Meaningful hockey. I'm motivated to try to contribute in any way possible.' 'He's just getting warmed up,' Staal added. Stankoven has still been with Carolina for less than two months. He first started hearing rumors he could go to the Hurricanes late on Thursday, March 6, the night before the deadline. 'I didn't get a great sleep that night, and that day leading up to it (was) just a lot of chaos,' he says. 'Just wanted to get that day over with and find out where I was going to be.' Advertisement It wasn't a simple process. The Stars had to negotiate an extension with Rantanen before the deal went through, leaving Stankoven in limbo as deadline day dragged on. The young forward finally got a sense he'd be on the move when the Stars told him not to go to the airport for the team's flight to Edmonton. He met up with fellow youngsters Wyatt Johnston and Thomas Harley, who lived in the same apartment complex as him in Dallas, to say goodbye. Then he went to the building's gym and walked on the treadmill, trying to get his mind off the potential trade. 'I was obviously in shock,' he says. '(Dallas general manager) Jim Nill was pretty positive in his words there, saying, 'Some of these young guys are untouchables and are probably not going to get traded.' But it's part of the business. To build hopefully a championship team there, that's what he needed to do.' 'I think he was really disappointed at first,' Wes Stankoven adds. Fortunately for Logan, his transition to Carolina has gone smoothly. The trade sent him to a perennial playoff team, and he heard from many of his new teammates shortly after the deal went down. Seth Jarvis and Jesperi Kotkaniemi took him out to dinner in his first few nights in Raleigh. On the ice, Stankoven started to feel more settled after his first few games. His style matches the Hurricanes'. Getting power play opportunities also gave him a boost, his dad says. '(Carolina is) a tough team to play against because they come with all gas and they play really aggressive,' Stankoven says. 'I think that's kind of how I play.' It would be natural for a player in Stankoven's place to feel added pressure, given a superstar went the other way. Stankoven, though, recognizes his situation is different; this was only his rookie season where Rantanen was a pending unrestricted free agent. He can, though, take the move as a vote of trust. Advertisement 'Obviously the Canes organization believes in me (by) making that type of trade and wanting me for a high-quality player,' he says. So far, he's rewarded their faith, endearing himself to fans in the process. Despite his smaller stature, he didn't hesitate to get in a scuffle with 6-4 bruiser Tom Wilson late in a game against Washington earlier this month. The referees handed both players roughing minors and misconduct penalties, so Stankoven went to the dressing room, changed out of his uniform and watched the end of the Hurricanes' win. In normal circumstances, when the public address speaker announces someone as a star of the game, the player re-takes the ice still in uniform. But when Stankoven got honored that night, he didn't hesitate to run out in shorts, tennis shoes and a hoodie. He pumped up the crowd and high-fived someone in the front row as he walked back to the dressing room. The Hurricanes fans roared. They loved every second of it.
