With Jack Drury out with injury, Finnish center Jesperi Kotkaniemi has been moved back to the second line center position where he started the season. Kotkaniemi, 24, has been up and down the ...

Jesperi Kotkaniemi scored both Carolina goals, the second coming 24 seconds after Dallas' tying goal midway through the third ...

On Tuesday night, the Carolina Hurricanes rallied in the third period, with all three goals coming from defensemen, to secure their 18th win of the season. However, the victory came at a cost, as ...

Kotkaniemi scored a goal and added two hits in Tuesday's 4-3 shootout loss to the Blue Jackets. Kotkaniemi put the Hurricanes ahead 3-2 in the second period, but their lone lead of the game didn't ...

The 24-year-old center saw his time on ice slashed following a tough go in Carolina's last game. Saturday night against the Columbus Blue Jackets was perhaps the toughest game of the season for ...

Kotkaniemi notched an assist and two shots on goal in Wednesday's 4-2 loss to the Sabres. Kotkaniemi helped out on a Jaccob Slavin tally in the third period. The assist snapped a six-game slump ...

What should Claude Julien do about Jesperi Kotkaniemi? In this bonus episode, our panelists — Montreal Gazette columnist Stu Cowan, CBC Daybreak Montreal’s Jessica Rusnak and former Canadien ...

Carolina's offer sheet gave the Finnish forward a chance to reset an NHL career that had been bungled in Montreal. I still remember the moment. I was at the 2018 NHL Draft Combine in Buffalo when ...

This brings us to Jesperi Kotkaniemi. After all, it was out of revenge that the Hurricanes offered KK $6.1 million over one year, in order to bring him to Carolina and then sign him to a bigger ...

The Carolina Hurricanes will be without centerman Jack Drury for the foreseeable future after the 24-year-old forward underwent hand surgery today, per head coach Rod Brind'Amour. "He's either had ...

I wondered if the trade for Christian Dvorak, made by the Canadiens in 2021, was a good idea. At the time, the Hurricanes presented Jesperi Kotkaniemi with a $6.1 million offer sheet, and Marc ...