Ball game.“Zibanejad and Panarin had great seasons and those guys were really feeling it toward the end,” Forslund said of the Rangers. They’re good at getting the puck up the ice quickly and their high-end guys are high-end.”In the Dec. 27 game in New York, the Canes trailed 4-1 and then battled back to make it 4-3. They generated chances, they generated an abundance of shots. Cabaret; Off-Broadway; Off-Off-Broadway News Sports Entertainment Lifestyle Opinion ... Credit goes to play-by-play man John Forslund for keeping to his duties rather than slide into the … “If you start and the rookie is good, then the rookie is good. Sometimes, it’s just that simple.Forslund would agree.

Lundqvist was the winner in three and goaltending was a huge factor in the season series, but there’s more to the Rangers’ success.Coaches like to say their best players need to be their best players in games. Moving on up is not where his heart is though.“Since 1997 I’ve loved the fans and I’ve loved the Hurricanes. That will never change.” Forslund is a TV free agent, so to speak, and for now no longer affiliated with a hockey franchise he first joined in 1991.With that said, Forslund seemed happy Friday to discuss other things: namely the Canes’ scheduled qualifying round matchup with the New York Rangers. Asked to disclose the reasons for the Rangers’ success -- secrets from inside the room -- he could only smile.“Obviously Hank helped a ton in those games and we had some good games,” Skjei said. He already has many national assignments and is viewed as one of the elite hockey play-by-play men in the business, so you wouldn’t expect Forslund to be a free agent for long.

The Rangers got that kind of play from the likes of Mika Zibanejad and Artemi Panarin, and others, against Carolina.“What they were able to do was get great goaltending in all the games,” Forslund said “The Canes were able to do a lot of the things they wanted to do. They forechecked well.“But while they did forecheck well they also stretched out the ice for the Rangers and the Rangers are really good in transition. I don’t know what conclusion you draw from that but it will be a story line. Since then, Forslund has been an integral part of the highest highs in the team’s deep playoff runs in 2002, 2006, 2009 and 2019. It will be a best-of-five series and Forslund believes could be the most intriguing of the eight qualifiers that will set the 16-team field for the 2020 Stanley Cup playoffs — if all goes as planned.The biggest question: who starts in net for the Rangers, rookie Igor Shesterkin or old pro Henrik Lundqvist, who has owned the Canes through the years?“My thought is you start with Shesterkin and then Hank (Lundqvist) is your followup,” Forslund said. Tripp Tracy is in his 21st season as the Hurricanes' television analyst, serving alongside John Forslund on all team broadcasts. “They have a real good group. He said if a deal to bring Forslund back doesn’t get done, it’d be accurate to call it a coronavirus casualty.That’s not a good enough explanation for most Hurricanes fans, who view Forslund as an integral and irreplaceable part of the team, indeed part of the franchise’s identity and connection with its fanbase.

RALEIGH (WTVD) — Forslund appears done as the voice of the Hurricanes If you start with Hank and he’s not any good, and he really wasn’t that good in the regular season, then you’re going to get second-guessed and then you’re going to ask a rookie to bail you out.“For me, Shesterkin was the No. When I contacted team president Don Waddell, he said he still hopes to get something worked out with Forslund, mentioning that John’s agent had requested a “few more days” to try and work something out.“Tell me when we’re going to play hockey again?! West End; New York City. Carolina Hurricanes broadcaster John Forslund is self-quarantined in his basement in Apex after staying in the same Detroit hotel room as Utah Jazz player Rudy Gobert, the … He was there to call all four. But late in the third period, Panarin raced into the Canes’ zone, outbattled defenseman Brett Pesce for a puck in the left corner, then zipped a perfect backdoor pass to Ryan Strome for the score.