GDT: Canes @ Islanders: You Know Who Is Playing Tonight

[dogbazinho]

They can hit the net on a 2 on 1. Feel bad for Svech. He played a pretty good game, at least defensively.

We're stuck with Burns for a few more months and will need him in the playoffs. We should find a way to rotate him in and out of the lineup to keep him rested and to give someone else some time. Hopefully a new player.

 

[FinPanda]

Well what a sad ending. Oh well, bunch of more Rantanen games to come this season!

 

[Svechhammer]

Svech WHAT. THE. f***.

3 unanswered goals losing in OT against a bottom feeder on a b2b...as much as things change the Canes stay the f***ing same

We are getting f***ed by every bottom feeder this year. It's infuriating

 

[AhosDatsyukian]

Defense and goaltending are just poor for us this year.

No other way to put it, Rantanen won't matter if we don't do something defensively. Burns is f***ing garbage, he's actively hurting us badly this year

before tonight we were 7th in GA/GP so hard to blame defense and goaltending for our top 5 record...

 

[hurricure]

Rods way too in love with Burns and that consecutive games streak means he will never sit… anyone got Jeff Giloolys number?

 

[To Be Determined]

On the plus side, i only have to watch the islanders one more time this season.

 

[Brock Anton]

Rods way too in love with Burns and that consecutive games streak means he will never sit… anyone got Jeff Giloolys number?

Him over Orlov or Ghost in OT is just bad coaching. Point blank.

 

[Stickpucker]

Not a great game but Hall has a lot more left in the tank than I thought. Those passes on pp2 should have been finished.

If he can keep that up I'd like to see him on pp1.

 

[Brock Anton]

On the plus side, i only have to watch the islanders one more time this season.

Most unwatchable team in the league and it’s not close. That game felt like it took 6 hours.

 

[Joe McGrath]

I know Burns is a mess right now, but scapegoating him in a game where the first goal went in off Walker. The second was Slavin getting beat to the front of the net and the 3rd was clearly a terrible turnover by Svech seems pretty misguided.

 

[Svechhammer]

Rods way too in love with Burns and that consecutive games streak means he will never sit… anyone got Jeff Giloolys number?

I wish we could trade him just so that it becomes someone else's problem

Like, the Burns situation makes it really imperative that we extend Rantanen, because we cannot win a cup with Burns getting major minutes and the coaches are too loyal to his streak to bench him and there is no other reasonable place to slot him other than heavily sheltering him with Slavin, who looks to be overtasked with it this year. This was never going to be the year to make a rental deal, so this better not be a rental player.

 

[AhosDatsyukian]

Rods way too in love with Burns and that consecutive games streak means he will never sit… anyone got Jeff Giloolys number?

I don't think Burns is so bad he needs to sit, he'd be perfectly fine on the 3rd pair, issue is we are relying on him on our top pair and have no other options there really. I'm not so sure we move on from him after this year but it's definitely looking damn near certain he won't be back on our top pair or for much more than vet minimum. I know Rod won't go for it but I'd like to see us keep Orlov and play Nikishin on his off side with Slavin. Otherwise we really need to get a top 4 RHD -- unfortunately, it's not easy to find those. We've gotten pretty lucky with Burns and TDA post-Dougie, but not sure we'll strike gold a 3rd team going cheap there.

 

[Brock Anton]

Not a great game but Hall has a lot more left in the tank than I thought. Those passes on pp2 should have been finished.

If he can keep that up I'd like to see him on pp1.

His offense might be gone, but he can clearly still skate. He’ll be useful here.

 

[Svechhammer]

His offense might be gone, but he can clearly still skate. He’ll be useful here.

He's got really good vision, appears to be very decisive with the puck and still has a few moves left. He can definitely help stir the drink whenever his line is on the ice, moreso than I thought he would when traded.

 

[dogbazinho]

The defensive zone faceoff that led to the tying goal was due to Burns unnecessarily swatting a puck that had to be 15 feet in the air.

 

[Stickpucker]

Interviews failed. Didn't even ask if the man tasted Bojangles yet.

 

[Blueline Bomber]

The real problem with the game is we let the Islanders hang around. We had a great start, potted a couple, then took the next period and a half off. We only put the foot back on the gas after they tied it, at which point we again had great chances for the GWG (Ghost's chance followed by KK's shortly after, Svech's off the post).

Full credit to the Islanders, because that's how they play and it works for them. But the Canes can't allow that when games start to matter

 

[Svechhammer]

The defensive zone faceoff that led to the tying goal was due to Burns unnecessarily swatting a puck that had to be 15 feet in the air.

And on the tying goal play he was caught flat footed puck watching as the skater crashed the net. Even if Lee doesn't score, Burns' guy would have had a great chance, too

 

[The Faulker 27]

Svech with a text book lack of hockey IQ in OT. Not even Necas would have tried that pass.

 

[Stickpucker]

Is the camera angle different in this building? There have been like 5 offsides tonight that didn’t look offside to me at first glance.

I can think of a couple simpler explanations.

 

[HisIceness]

Take the point and move on.

 

[Joe McGrath]

The defensive zone faceoff that led to the tying goal was due to Burns unnecessarily swatting a puck that had to be 15 feet in the air.

That’s a play you make 100 times out of a 100. That puck is getting behind him and his D partner with the forechecker blowing past them skating forwards.

 

[Sigurd]

They didn't win their first game after getting Rantanen and Hall?

 

[Sigurd]

Not a great game but Hall has a lot more left in the tank than I thought. Those passes on pp2 should have been finished.

If he can keep that up I'd like to see him on pp1.

Yeah, Hall showed he still has talent.

Good to see, and hopefully he fits in well with the team along with Rantanen of course.

 

[3CanesInTheBox]

Bummer to lose this game. But, it will be hard to wipe the smile off my face knowing Mikko's on our team.

I'm not sure about the current first line, but also it's hard to discern since we were losing so many face-offs, possessions.