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Cory Lavalette
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Cory Lavalette
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Senior editor for @nsjnews but still on the @Canes beat | @ThePHWA Carolina chapter head; weekly for @TheAthletic | TheAthletic.com. They're just teeth.
- Only the NHL would configure a schedule that skips two weekend days so it can have Game 7 of the Stanley Cup final on a Monday.
- Hamilton: “We lost to a team $18 million over the cap."
- Taylor Hall said he knew for a couple of days he was being traded and was pretty sure it was to Carolina. “And I found out why it was taking so long *gestures toward Rantanen* and totally understandable.”
- Kotkaniemi, sporting quite the black eye, says he’ll be good to go for Rd 2
- After being traded, Taylor Hall said he wanted to stop moving around. He gets his wish. Three years, $3.16M.HALLSY'S HERE TO STAY!!!
- Hall when asked about this being his seventh NHL team: “I'd love for this to be the last. I'm tired of moving around.”
- Kovchetkov: "It's 0-0. I say 'Fuck boys, please score.' I go home."
- The Hurricanes are now the top remaining seed and will have home ice throughout the playoffs.
- The Avalanche are out. Of the remaining nine teams in the playoffs, the most recent Cup winner is ... the Hurricanes in 2006. Never won: Seattle, Vegas, Florida Hurricanes: 2006 Devils: 2003 Stars:1999 Rangers: 1994 Oilers: 1990 Leafs: 1967
- Martinook: “If anyboy tries to make (Svechnikov) feel bad about the situation, he’s got 23 brothers that will stick up for him."
- Jarvis on the broadcast: "I still don't know what goaltender interference is."
- Nikishin gave a short speech in the locker room that Slavin summed up as: "Good game. Step by step. Good job."
