GDT: 6 o'clock news - canes @ buffalo @ 6 o'clock

[TheBigLetowski]

How many games have the Canes lost because of shitty goaltending? Does the team see a softie go in and go into total shit house on the ice? That does bode great for the teams mental state, but expecting a healthy freddie was their first mistake. Also, the "2nd line" of ERob/KK/Necas has been a shell of itself. I'm sure many in here knew Necas was holding that up and his fall down to earth is evident.

 

[WreckingCrew]

How many games have the Canes lost because of shitty goaltending? Does the team see a softie go in and go into total shit house on the ice? That does bode great for the teams mental state, but expecting a healthy freddie was their first mistake. Also, the "2nd line" of ERob/KK/Necas has been a shell of itself. I'm sure many in here knew Necas was holding that up and his fall down to earth is evident.

Shitty goaltending was definitely a key factor in this one, but so is scoring only 2 goals (on 37 f***ing shots against a goalie with a <.900 sv%). Does it matter if he let in 2 softies or 10 softies if we can't score a f***ing goal?

 

[User13452]

Shitty goaltending was definitely a key factor in this one, but so is scoring only 2 goals (on 37 f***ing shots against a goalie with a <.900 sv%). Does it matter if he let in 2 softies or 10 softies if we can't score a f***ing goal?

You can still win games 2-1 and that’s what last night should have been 3 of the 4 goals had no business going in at the nhl level.

 

[the halleJOKEL]

also doesn't help that giving up these early soft goals allows the other team to sit back and clog the middle against us while chipping the puck out and not even really looking for more offense, a thing we have always struggled to overcome

 

[Blueline Bomber]

You can still win games 2-1 and that’s what last night should have been 3 of the 4 goals had no business going in at the nhl level.

Giving up a bad goal early doesn’t mean the team should just roll over and die. And that’s what tends to happen. Sure, blame the goalie for giving up the bad goal, but the attitude should be “Well, let’s get it back”, not “Game’s over, let’s take the rest of this period off.”

Especially when the team has overcome multiple goal deficits a couple times this season. Maybe doing that BEFORE the third period might win them a few more games

 

[Joe McGrath]

also doesn't help that giving up these early soft goals allows the other team to sit back and clog the middle against us while chipping the puck out and not even really looking for more offense, a thing we have always struggled to overcome

This is the crux of it. Giving up a goal on the first shot, unscreened from 25-30 feet out is instantly deflating. Same thing happened in the Minnesota game when they were ass from start to finish.

 

[hblueridgegal]

Jaccob Slavin was very direct post-game. After calling tonight "ugly hockey" and referencing the team's recent inconsistencies, he was asked if their stretch of up-and-down play surprises him: "It definitely surprises us. We're normally a team that competes every night. We're consistent. We have a chance to win every night. But lately, we haven't had chances to win every night. We're not helping ourselves by the way we play when we play like that. It's not good enough as a group. To a man, it's not good enough."

Is he saying that they are in a funk or have they come to the realization that perhaps they're not good enough anymore to rely on past strengths? This type of performance was not a one off. It's recurring and is almost at the two month point.

Comebacks also take up a lot of physical and emotional energy. Great for the 1 game but you often see teams flat the next one.

 

[AhosDatsyukian]

Is he saying that they are in a funk or have they come to the realization that perhaps they're not good enough anymore to rely on past strengths? This type of performance was not a one off. It's recurring and is almost at the two month point.

Comebacks also take up a lot of physical and emotional energy. Great for the 1 game but you often see teams flat the next one.

Tough to get a read on what he's getting at but I think he's saying the guys are getting lazy/complacent -- i.e. "not competing every night."

 

[hblueridgegal]

Tough to get a read on what he's getting at but I think he's saying the guys are getting lazy/complacent -- i.e. "not competing every night."

I wonder what's driving that behavior? The roster woes addressed as addressed upthread or something else?

It feels weird to say but they appear to lack an identity other than performing inconsistently.

 

[The Faulker 27]

It's not breaking news our goalies suck. I think they're just good enough to keep them with enough wins until Fragile Fredrick comes back. In other news are the Canes leading the league in giving up the first goal? Sure seems like it.

 

[chaz4hockey]

Right after being on IR for all of last season with a different issue.

We kind of deserve this, hopefully it wakes up the front office that moneypucking the goalie spot is a very unstable house of cards that we really don't want to get involved with.

Speaking of goalies....some organizations have been adapt at drafting good goalies....and getting one through the draft is the cost effective way to go.

Rangers, Nashville, Calgary are three organizations that come to mind that have been superb at the talent identification. Tulsky should figure out what they are doing to identify goalies that will succeed or ask Dundon to hire the scouts that are identifying the talent.

 

[Joe McGrath]

Speaking of goalies....some organizations have been adapt at drafting good goalies....and getting one through the draft is the cost effective way to go.

Rangers, Nashville, Calgary are three organizations that come to mind that have been superb at the talent identification. Tulsky should figure out what they are doing to identify goalies that will succeed or ask Dundon to hire the scouts that are identifying the talent.

Other than Wolf (who was a 7th round pick) the Flames haven’t drafted a goalie who became an NHL starter for anybody since Craig Anderson in 1999. The other two you mentioned certainly have a knack for it.