GDT: 3/4 Canes @ does it even matter?: Everybody Hurts

[bleedgreen]

After watching all these interviews this season, I feel like Harrison may be the only person on the team actually speaking English.

 

[Anton Dubinchuk]

First game to me where lindholm looked like an nhl player for the whole game.

Interesting and good observation. I agree with you.

 

[Lazyking]

I know the feeling is that getting these points will change JR's mindset going into the deadline, but really??

I mean, it's JR, so he's not going to do anything. Plus, they put a quote up that he's telling us that this is a "young team," and there needs to be patience. Really?? JR is truly asleep or dead if he thinks we need to be patient with this "young" team. That is an absolutely ridiculous assessment of this team right now. And on top of all that, he's got nothing really to move. Nobody wants our overpriced crap (Ward or Ruutu) or pending UFAs (Hainsey? really?) and the rest of the guys are locked up with no-trade clauses. Who would we really trade?

We won't do anything tomorrow -- mostly because we can't -- not because of these two points.

Agreed.. Any player a team would want from us, we shouldn't trade.

 

[tarheelhockey]

Win first game
Win next 15 games
Playoffs
Profit

 

[Wolfpuck]

Wait, how the **** did we sweep the Sharks?

 

[Brock Anton]

Wait, how the **** did we sweep the Sharks?

Lindholm.

 

[What the Faulk]

After watching all these interviews this season, I feel like Harrison may be the only person on the team actually speaking English.

Hainsey is pretty well spoken too.

Just FYI, the Canes were scouting Coyotes/Canucks for some reason tonight. They've played both their games against those teams.

 

[WhiteTrashAmerican]

Now all we need to do is go 12-8 or so to lock up 9th place. Lets get em boys!

 

[Wolfpuck]

17-2-4 when scoring first

So, the Canes have scored first in 23 of 62 games. That basically sums it all up.

 

[bleedgreen]

Hainsey is pretty well spoken too.

Just FYI, the Canes were scouting Coyotes/Canucks for some reason tonight. They've played both their games against those teams.

"Who's this Rob keslers guy they were talking about at the bar?

.......you gonna eat that?"

 

[rocky7]

you could see the smiles and how happy they were. winning is fun..good for the guys, they earned it.

 

[Buenos Necas]

Hainsey is pretty well spoken too.

Just FYI, the Canes were scouting Coyotes/Canucks for some reason tonight. They've played both their games against those teams.

Hmmm

Great win, obviously shouldn't change anything about what we do or more likely don't do tomorrow, but I'll enjoy the win for now. Nice to see Lindholm improving, sweet pass to setup the game winner.

 

[Wolfpuck]

Sekera with 2 assists and a +3 in 26 minutes

 

[Brock Anton]

Sekera with 2 assists and a +3 in 26 minutes

Greatest trade in the history of time.

 

[Caniac4ever]

I didn't think with us being this far out of the playoff picture I could get that enthused about a game, but tonight was pretty great. Nice to see some effort tonight.

 

[DougieSmash]

"There's a lot of speculation in this room right now, a lot of guys' minds can be drifting at times," center Jordan Staal said. "It was nice, to be honest, just to get on the ice and play and not worry about that stuff and play a hard tough game and get rewarded for a big win. It was a good feeling."

Interesting. JStaal on the move?

 

[Finlandia WOAT]

Jordan Staal + Tlusty + Murphy for Marc Staal and Ryan Callahan.

Calling it now.

 

[tarheelhockey]

Interesting. JStaal on the move?

Doesn't sound like he's talking about himself.

 

[Unsustainable]

Surprisingly happy that the Canes won. Lindy is the Shark killer.

 

[djboos22]

Tonight will be our "playoff team" performance.

3-1 Canes

"Good for Jay! Good for him!!" Good for me too and the Canes!

Lindholm was great tonight and so was Sekera of course. I liked that line of Lindholm - Staal - Skinner

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

I was only able to stay up for the first half of the game. Really like Semin on Jordan Staal's line, he looked great last night and actually looked like he played the game with more speed. That looks like a good combination, with Tlusty also.

Skinner/Lindholm/E.Staal looked like they were clicking some also and has some potential, although defensively, that line worries me. Skinner needs to commit more to the defensive end and Eric still cheats coming out of the zone at times.

Khodobin really played those two goals poorly and pretty much gave away those two.... bad rebound on one and he screwed up behind the net on the other. He seems to be playing with a lot of confidence though as he was able to rebound and not let any more in, especially because it sounds like the Sharks really turned on the pressure in the 3rd.

 

[TheBigKahuna]

Doesn't sound like he's talking about himself.

Yeah, Tripp told him that Skinner was being traded for a bag of pucks, since he sucks so bad.

 

[rocky7]

Skinner is a guy who will probably retire a Cane but he really needs to get his **** together. he isn't Alex Ovechkin yet...

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

Skinner is a guy who will probably retire a Cane but he really needs to get his **** together. he isn't Alex Ovechkin yet...

Not sure what you mean by "get his **** together". Does he need to improve defensively? No doubt. But he has a LOT of his **** together already. He works exceedingly hard in the offseason (even Gary Roberts commented about how much he has his **** together for a young guy). He seems to have matured and considerably toned down his whining/diving this year. By all accounts, he's a well grounded person, etc...

He's 21. A lot of guys at his age aren't even in the NHL. Taylor Hall is still brutal defensively. Tyler Seguin needed a trade to force him to get his **** together. etc.. Again, I agree he needs to improve defensively and play stronger two way and team game, but let's not go overboard here.

 

[DaleCooper]

Slept through the entire game. :|