The Carolina Hurricanes managed to take both games of their series with the Minnesota Wild in Helsinki, Finland, which was a part of the NHL Premiere series in Europe to start the year.The Hurricanes took the first game on Thursday by a score of 4-3, in a very spread out scoring display between both teams. Cam Ward and Jussi Jokinen led the way for drafted players from Carolina, each picking up a pair of points in the victory. Undrafted Brandon Sutter also had a couple of points in the win, helping his cause of being a waiver draft pick up in the middle of December.
In the second game on Friday, the Hurricanes and Wild played a much tighter affair with defense and goaltending playing the biggest part. However, it was Cam Ward who was leading the way for the drafted players, picking up the 2-1 victory in the shootout, Niklas Backstrom not getting anything for the Wild, since I don't believe in the pity point in the standings, so there shouldn't be one in the pool for an overtime loss.
With all of that being said, I have revised the table of players who were drafted in the pool, taking part in this series, to show the number of points they picked up for their pool teams.
| Carolina Hurricanes | Minnesota Wild | |||||
| Cam Ward, G | Dale B. | 4 | Antti Miettinen, F | Benson | 1 | |
| Joni Pitkanen, D | Derek | 1 | Brent Burns, D | Chris | 1 | |
| Joe Corvo, D | Don | 1 | Marek Zidlicky, D | Derek | 0 | |
| Eric Staal, F | Kristy & Don | 0 | Andrew Brunette, F | Don | 1 | |
| Jussi Jokinen, F | Larry | 3 | Mikko Koivu, F | Jani | 2 | |
| Zach Boychuk, F | Stacey | 0 | Martin Havlat, F | Kristy & Don | 1 | |
| Anton Babchuk, D | Stacey | 1 | Cam Barker, D | Kristy & Don | 1 | |
| Jamie McBain, D | Wes | 1 | Gui Latendresse, F | Kristy & Don | 1 | |
| Niklas Backstrom, G | Peter | 0 |
Dale B. was the biggest winner out of this series, having his only player pick up 4 points for his team over the past couple of days, while Larry was pretty happy to pick up 3 points from his only player. Kristy & Don had four players in this series, but only managed 3 points in total, which has to be kind of a let down.
Stay tuned to the blog, to see how the other two NHL Premiere series fare for our poolies.
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