GDT: 9/18/2013 - Blue Jackets @ Hurricanes - Rivalry Game

[tarheelhockey]

It begins...


http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=1469045

This is it, folks. Day 1 of The Rivalry as a divisional battle. I literally cannot think of a single game that could mean more than a preseason showdown between the Canes and Jackets. This thing is going to be all-out war, starting in the warmups and ending in the sports bars during the wee hours.

Let's just hope the Raleigh PD bring the paddy wagon tonight. They're gonna need it.

Lineups


Bowman - E. Staal - Semin
Skinner - Lindholm - Gerbe
Terry - Welsh - Dalpe
Blanchard - Sutter - Westgarth

Gleason - Komisarek
Jordan - Bellemore
Harrison - Murphy

Ward
Peters
​

* Jiri Tlusty will view this game from the press box, with an extensive security detail to protect him from Brendan Woods.

Forwards: Aleardi, Collins, Craig, Dubinsky, Foligno, Gaborik, Jenner, Johansen, Joudrey, MacKenzie, Rychel, Skille

Defense: Erixon, Johnson, Larkin, Nikitin, Savard, Tyutin

Goaltenders: McElhinney, McKenna
​

* Due to the importance of this game, Columbus will not reveal their lines until after their morning skate.

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[Guy]

It's already started, just got stuck behind 20 buses bringing Blue Jackets fans into town, I assume they are already at the arena and tailgating because they're better at it than we are.

 

[tarheelhockey]

Raleigh police are preparing for the worst.

 

[Bub]

Love the look on the linesman's face above...

 

[Anton Babchuk]

Ward hasn't played since March, so I'm expecting a 3 or 4 goal-against first period. Once Peters comes in mid-way through the floodgates will open.

13-1 Columbus.

 

[golfpro827]

I woke up this morning and stopped at a McDonalds for some coffee and I saw that the store owner was from Ohio and refused to support his store and went to Dunkin Donuts which was 4 miles out of the way and $1 more.

You have to do what you have to do.

 

[TheBigKahuna]

The battle of the two non-metropolitan metropolitan teams!

 

[Oogie Boogie]

* Jiri Tlusty will view this game from the press box, with an extensive security detail to protect him from Brendan Woods.

Rumors have it that Tlusty will have a personal Sniper protecting him throughout the night.

 

[Anton Babchuk]

If you ever wanted to have an entire section for yourself, there's no better night than tonight looking at the seating chart. Section 307 could be yours and yours alone.

 

[Unsustainable]

Should have put Woods in the game to start really taking his frustrations out on the other team.

 

[VictorLustig]

A game of this importance must certainly be shown on national television no?

 

[Anton Babchuk]

Rumors have it that Tlusty will have a personal Sniper protecting him throughout the night.

That's a bad idea. He could be secretly working for Brendan/Tiger Woods and take out Tlusty himself.

 

[tomdundo]

If you ever wanted to have an entire section for yourself, there's no better night than tonight looking at the seating chart. Section 307 could be yours and yours alone.

If I wasn't working, I might go. I need a seat for each one of my personalities.

 

[Navin R Slavin]

I AM SO RIDICULOUSLY EXCITED FOR NO GOOD REASON.

--hank

 

[Oenatzu]

Ward hasn't played since March, so I'm expecting a 3 or 4 goal-against first period. Once Peters comes in mid-way through the floodgates will open.

13-1 Columbus.

Bowman scores the lone Canes goal and gets a season ticket for the first line wing.

 

[Samkow]

Too bad other NHL fans don't experience the tradition that comes with this Original 30™ Rivalry

 

[Novacane]

Ward to slice MCL (e4)

 

[Navin R Slavin]

Too bad other NHL fans don't experience the tradition that comes with this Original 30™ Rivalry

Is that a dis? Are you dissing us? That sounds like you're dissing us!

Let this mark the official beginning of the rivalry. Consider this post to be a virtual beer poured over your head. Jack Johnson is our old dirty sweat sock, and Rick Nash never loved you.

You guys are going to get the preseason beatings of your lives!

--hank

p.s. you got lucky at Antietam and Gettysburg.

 

[tarheelhockey]

I hope the team is jacked up to avenge their loss at Traverse City. Aside from the playoffs and regular season, the preseason is probably our best chance to one-up that tournament in terms of importance.

 

[candyman82]

Is that a dis? Are you dissing us? That sounds like you're dissing us!

Let this mark the official beginning of the rivalry. Consider this post to be a virtual beer poured over your head. Jack Johnson is our old dirty sweat sock, and Rick Nash never loved you.

You guys are going to get the preseason beatings of your lives!

--hank

p.s. you got lucky at Antietam and Gettysburg.

Don't make me channel the spirit of proud Ohioan William Tecumseh Sherman.

 

[Navin R Slavin]

Don't make me channel the spirit of proud Ohioan William Tecumseh Sherman.

I think you will find that our ice doesn't burn.

--hank

(p.s. and hey, your location says Fredericksburg! what the hell, man???)

 

[Anton Babchuk]

I hope the team is jacked up to avenge their loss at Traverse City. Aside from the playoffs and regular season, the preseason is probably our best chance to one-up that tournament in terms of importance.

"Matt Kennedy posted two goals and three assists and Jeff Skinner put up a goal and four assists as the prospects of the Carolina Hurricanes obliterated the Columbus Blue Jackets' prospects 8-1 on Tuesday night in the NHL Traverse City Prospects Tournament."

Nothing Columbus can do will ever top that victory, which will live for all eternity in the minds of hockey fans around the globe. 'Canes already won the rivalry long ago.

 

[tarheelhockey]

"Matt Kennedy posted two goals and three assists and Jeff Skinner put up a goal and four assists as the prospects of the Carolina Hurricanes obliterated the Columbus Blue Jackets' prospects 8-1 on Tuesday night in the NHL Traverse City Prospects Tournament."

Always fun to look back on these games and see names that I don't even remember being on the roster.

(turns out Matt Kennedy was a non-scoring winger in the AHL and has now drifted down to the ECHL where his career will likely finish. This dude scored 5 points in a Traverse game.)

 

[Identity404]

5-1 Loss.

Am I doing it right?

 

[A Star is Burns]

I don't care much about the score as long as we hear good things from some of these guys that are in a dog fight to make the team. It is great to have hockey back for four straight nights.