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Muller to Hurricanes: 'It's a clean slate'

Tuesday, 11.29.2011 / 1:08 PM

By Kurt Dusterberg - NHL.com Correspondent / At the Rink blog

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Muller to Hurricanes: 'It's a clean slate'
RALEIGH, N.C. -- Kirk Muller will make his NHL coaching debut tonight, one day after replacing Paul Maurice as the Carolina head coach. He met his players before the morning skate on Tuesday, and his message to them was simple.

"We told them it's a clean slate," Muller said. "Just bring energy tonight. It's pretty hard to walk in and change all the x's and o's. I just asked them to work hard and be accountable to each other, come with some life and energy."

His counterpart, Kevin Dineen in Florida, is also a rookie NHL coach. He makes his first visit to Carolina, where he was the Carolina captain toward the end of his playing career. He expects the Hurricanes to react well to a new voice behind the bench.

"(Muller's) got a long depth of experience as an NHL assistant," Dineen said. "He's a fabulous hockey mind. His joyful enthusiasm sometimes masks his intelligence. He's such a quality person and he's going to be a very good coach for a long time."

Here's how tonight's lineups could project:

PANTHERS
Tomas Fleischmann - Stephen Weiss - Kris Versteeg
Marco Sturm - Mike Santorelli - Tomas Kopecky
Sean Bergenheim - Shawn Matthias - Jack Skille
Tim Kennedy - Mark Cullen - Evgenii Dadonov

Brian Campbell - Jason Garrison
Erik Gudbranson - Ed Jovanovski
Dmitry Kulikov - Mike Weaver

Jose Theodore

HURRICANES
Jeff Skinner - Eric Staal - Tuomo Ruutu
Alexei Ponikarovsky - Jussi Jokinen - Chad LaRose
Jiri Tlusty - Brandon Sutter - Patrick Dwyer
Brett Sutter - Tim Brent - Anthony Stewart

Bryan Allen - Tim Gleason
Tomas Kaberle - Justin Faulk
Jamie McBain - Tim Gleason

Cam Ward

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