This game was over as soon as the blown calls started in the first few minutes. If there was ever an on to the next one moment, this is it.
Carolina is definitely a step above TB and Florida, that team is a machine.
I've been as hard on this team as anyone but this one had ref fingerprints all over it, what a shitshow.
From the first two blown calls to the Durzi clean hit and thereafter...Carolina is just straight up a better team, they didn't need the computer assistance turned on.
I liked how they responded for most of the first, the third the Canes just showed they're the Canes and you're not coming back big. I could complain about the special teams but what's the point, that's a nightly thing...the refs being
that completely off is unusual, they were acting like beer league refs that were reffing the last game of the night and just wanted to go home and figured the Canes were gonna win. They looked at that high stick for like 10 seconds, and then once the canes were up big, put their whistles away while guys got sticks hacked out of their hands left and right.
Burn the tapes on that one, move on. Still a chance to make this a good trip, even if unlikely. That's a game I'm happy to spot them because they didn't just quit even when they had every excuse to.
Edit: actually I do have one complaint...should have let Quick rest and played him tomorrow. But meh.