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Who are you rooting for?

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Hoek said:
Sad that we would be happy with their home record right now though, lol. Man what the hell.
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At least they have the "excuse" of the fans bearing lifetimes of trauma induced by their team and being gluttons for punishment. We won two Cups and not long thereafter we've lost nine out of ten home playoff games. Much as we might lament even now about missed opportunities and that this team - accomplished as they are - should've won more during their peak years, we're not a tortured fanbase. We're the most successful '90s expansion/relocation team in terms of Cups. The more likely answer is just being on the negative end of just plain bad luck (the odds of losing 9 out of 10 home games has to be extremely low) but g-ddamn...
 
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To add to the fact that the Canes don’t have a big face of the franchise type of player: They’re a small market team. Nobody on SN or TNT or THN and the other big hockey media outlets gives a damn about the Canes. I mean who really hates or loves the Canes? They don’t have any real rivalries or emotional history with other teams or fanbases either. They’re just there. And that’s fine too.

I mean if they win the Cup I’d be like, ok good for them I guess.

Their subforum is fun to read at times (in a positive sense) I give them that!
 
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LightningStrikes said:
To add to the fact that the Canes don’t have a big face of the franchise type of player: They’re a small market team. Nobody on SN or TNT or THN etc gives a damn about the Canes. I mean who really hates or loves the Canes? They don’t have any real rivalries or emotional history with other teams or fanbases either. They’re just there. And that’s fine too.

I mean if they win the Cup I’d be like, ok good for them I guess.

Their subforum is fun to read at times (in a positive sense) I give them that!
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Their only identities lately have been puck possession cycling offensive hockey mixed with stifling defense, as well as the Storm Surge + Bunch of Jerks stuff. Otherwise, they are just there. They did have really good teams in 2021-2023 that failed to get further IMHO.
 
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Rschmitz said:
I don't know why Carolina somehow escapes the ridicule a lot of other teams get with respect to how good they are but yet haven't won anything. Maybe not quite San Jose tier, but they're right about where we were in 2019.
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JoVel said:
Carolina has done worse than we did then, and I don't think it's very close either. We had already made the finals, and then went to game 7 with two eventual champions in the conference finals. They just have flat out not been able to compete. They have a 0-8 record in their two CF runs with this core.
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Rschmitz said:
Yeah they just don’t seem built for the postseason, we easily dispatched them during our run. You’d think they would get flack for being so good in the regular season though, maybe not to the extent Toronto should but still their expiration date is approaching
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Except for maybe one time, Carolina has never lost in the playoffs to a team who was worse than them. They always get eliminated by a better team

2019: Boston very clearly better
2020: ditto
2021: we were very clearly better
2022: this is the one arguable one, Carolina were favorites but they couldn't win at MSG and then imploded in Game 7 at home
2023: Florida very clearly better
2024: Rangers were the division winner, had the home ice, won the first three games...coin flip at best, but I think the Rangers winning was fair

They've been a team where they've benefitted from often drawing a weak first round opponent, something Atlantic teams (including often times the division winner) don't get that same benefit. The Hurricanes first round opponents since 2021 - respectively - have been Nashville, Boston, NY Islanders twice, and New Jersey. Except for the Bruins in 2022, none of them were particularly good teams. Those aren't teams who had star power that could overwhelm Carolina. The teams who have beaten them? Teams with superstar-level players that Carolina simply doesn't have (I don't think I'm being unfair to Aho or Svechnikov or Slavin to suggest they aren't top-level superstars in the molds of Kucherov, Pastrnak, Bergeron, Tkachuk, etc.). None of this has been a coincidence.

Svechnikov has 8 goals so far this postseason, maybe something will be different this year. I think most of us still had our skepticism about the Capitals being as good as their record said, but dispatching them in five games and being the better team throughout the series is still noteworthy. Maybe something clicked into place differently after Rantanen came in there and basically said "you schmucks aren't good enough for me". We can only hope. But, in any case, to circle back to the basis of this discussion, I don't really see them as having underachieved tremendously because I think their successes have been from the benefit of favorable matchups against weak playoff teams (matchups earned in part from being division winners often, admittedly) and then losing to teams that had superstars beyond their level. But I'm not the most objective here because I'm sure I can put together comments dating back over six years now where I've never been too big on the Hurricanes, certainly not as big as the consensus opinions have been across the sport in that timeframe.
 
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LightningStrikes said:
To add to the fact that the Canes don’t have a big face of the franchise type of player: They’re a small market team. Nobody on SN or TNT or THN and the other big hockey media outlets gives a damn about the Canes. I mean who really hates or loves the Canes? They don’t have any real rivalries or emotional history with other teams or fanbases either. They’re just there. And that’s fine too.

I mean if they win the Cup I’d be like, ok good for them I guess.

Their subforum is fun to read at times (in a positive sense) I give them that!
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I do think the Carolina suffers from the fact that Washington has more historical rivals that they think about, Atlanta moved and was never good, and Nashville is in the other conference.
 
JoVel said:
Yeah I've been saying this for a while now. :laugh:
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Me too. I think Florida will beat them in 5 or 6. And probably beat them up pretty good too.

Dallas or Edmonton will both be a test. Dallas is really strong, and Edmonton knows how deep they have to dig to get through Florida.

Florida is similar to us in our cup years. Mix of skill and grit. We were a bit heavier on skill, they're a bit heavier on grit, but the sum is the same.

That series went 7 games but it's almost like they lost when they didn't take the Leafs seriously enough
 
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I would take both Sam Bennett and Brad Marchand on this team in a heartbeat.
 
I have no idea how anybody could listen to Steve Dangle for more than 30 seconds. I had that shit playing in the background while trying to respond to an email and my keys almost went caps lock with rage and I felt like punching my monitor. f*** that franchise, their fans and everything related to them. They are just so annoying top to bottom.
 
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Stammertime91 said:
I'd rather put myself in a wood chipper than see either one of those f*** faces join this team.

@mods come get your boy, he's trying to manifest horse shit over here
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How we'd reconcile the Ryan Callahan - Brad Marchand situation would be interesting, but I wouldn't hate getting him. You've got to step right up to, and often over, the line.

I don't know why we can't get anyone younger. If Isaac Howard put the same stubbornness of not wanting to go to Syracuse into his play, he'd be the next Marchand.
 
Stammertime91 said:
players Kuch has licked: 0
players Kuch has headshotted: 1

pales in comparison
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We had a reputation as a very dirty team. And we earned it.

Marchand hasn't really crossed that kind of line in years. Bennett crosses it for sure, but I don't think he's the worst offender. I think they're gonna win a cup in large part because they're so tough to play against on a nightly basis. We used to be.

I don't think Kucherov has any issue whatsoever with hurting someone.
 
Sky04 said:
Remember what people said about Perry before we got him? :laugh:

Also Stamkos has had a lot of dirty plays too.
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I think Perry has a role that at least in the last decade hasn't been one that headshots and just boards people into oblivion then skates off like its nothing. Or licks players. I think there's a gulf between the two.

And yeah, people hated Perry but if we are ranking the three, Bennett is the worst. There's a gap where Marchand is there with Perry, but I absolutely hate Marchand for all the dickery he's done against Tampa over the years. Much different than what we faced with Perry beforehand. I think the reverse would be true if you asked an LA fan for example if they thought Perry was worse than Marchand.

But Bennett? Nah. Dude is an absolute c***b*g. Hope someone ends the guy's career. He's one of the biggest pieces of shit I've seen in a while.
 
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