GDT: Canes vs. Lightning, Mario Kart Edition (1/19)

JustHereForTheFights

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What: Hockey, Mario Kart style

When: 5:00pm EST, 1/19/14

Where: Vanilla Lake, PNC Arena, Raleigh, NC






Who:
Carolina Hurricanes






Tampa Bay Lightning





Featuring:
For the Carolina Hurricanes.....



Eric "Mario" Staal and Jordan "Luigi" Staal




Nathan "Toad" Gerbe




Jeff "Princess" Skinner





Justin "Yoshi" Faulk




Anton "Donkey Kong Jr." Khudobin




For the Tampa Bay Lightning....




Anders "Bowser" Lindback



Martin "Koopa" St. Louis



Your TV play-by-play representation for the Carolina Hurricanes:



John "Lakitu" Forslund



Tripp "Cheep Cheep" Tracy



Your Hall of Fame radio voice of the Carolina Hurricanes....

Chuck "Big Boo" Kaiton



What we're hoping for.......





What we're not hoping for............



Because it's usually the little things that make us spin out.


Lineups (best guess based on tonight (1/18)....I'll be at the game tomorrow and not home to correct this if things change, so feel free to update in the comments):

Canes:
Tlusty-E. Staal-Semin
Gerbe-J. Staal-Dwyer
Skinner-Lindholm-Ruutu
Malhotra-Nash-Dvorak

Sekera-Faulk
Hainsey-Liles
Komisarek-Harrison

Khudobin or Peters (my guess is Khudobin, aka DK Jr. :))

Lightning:
Palat-Johnson-St. Louis
Killorn-Filppula-Purcell
Kucherov-Thompson-Brown
Malone-Panik-Cote

Hedman-Salo
Carle-Gudas
Barberio- Brewer

Bishop or Lindback (I asked Tampa fans for a guess as to who gets the start in goal and the response I got was Lindback, aka Bowser.)

Broadcast Information:
Radio
All Carolina Hurricanes games can be heard on the Hurricanes Radio Network and its flagship station, 99.9 FM The Fan ESPN Radio. Hurricanes fans outside the network's listening area can listen live through a game-night link on CarolinaHurricanes.com.

TV
FS-Carolinas
Time Warner Cable – Ch. 50 (SD) / 508 (SD-digital) / 1508 (HD)
DirecTV – Ch. 645/645-1
AT&T Uverse – Ch. 726/1726
CenturyLink Prism – Ch. 726/1726
Atlantic Telephone – Ch. 24/978

Special Notes:
This is my first GDT. Garnetpalmetto and Head Goose talked me into it, and Garnetpalmetto bribed me with cupcakes. Please direct all barbs and insults their way.
:D
 
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Blueline Bomber

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Given the fact this is the Canes, we'll lead going into final lap, grab a blue shell, then use it accidentally.

Been awhile since I've played Mario Kart, so I'm not sure if that analogy still works
 

raynman

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A GDT I can follow/understand. Nice work.

Will be interesting to see if Muller continues to ride Anton considering Peters played so well last time these two teams met. Gotta be frustrating for Peters to play out of his mind and then get the bench for his efforts. Not to say Anton doesn't deserve his starts, just would hate to see him overworked after being out so long with a tough injury. But if Anton wants to be this team's starter he'll have to get used to it I suppose.
 

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Given the fact this is the Canes, we'll lead going into final lap, grab a blue shell, then use it accidentally.

Been awhile since I've played Mario Kart, so I'm not sure if that analogy still works

I don't think you can shoot yourself with it. Perhaps a more apt analogy would be having a lightning bolt used against us mid jump, causing us to fall and have to redo the last lap :laugh:
 

tomdundo

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Well, Justin Faulk is probably my favorite player...and Yoshi is by far my favorite Mario Kart character.:yo:

This GDT is stamped with my seal of approval.




...now do more.:sarcasm:
 

Wild Caniac

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This the best GDT. Mario Kart has been my life. Also, attending the game tonight for the bobblehead.
 

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Im down to the wire in fantasy this week, debating picking up peters. If anyone knows who the confirmed starter is at any point today, please post in his thread ...it would help me out. :yo:
 

VAcaniac

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Wow this has the potential to be a classic goalie matchup. There should be about 3 million rebound chances in this game on both sides.
 

Clark Gillies

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Peters in...

I would have preferred not seeing JP until the Buf/Otttawa btb, but it is understandable after a busy night in the net last night and the earlier start today.

I hope I am wrong but I have a bad feeling that Peters gets torched by Tampa that he either gets pulled or forces us to use Dobby even more (the BTB's leading up to the break).
 

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That's league wide. I'd put money that the SV% is similar (if not better) when it comes to Carolina goalies. Granted, that's probably because in the past, the options were Ward, who played the night before and every game prior, or Peters/Leighton/Grahame/etc., who hadn't played in months.
 

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That's league wide. I'd put money that the SV% is similar (if not better) when it comes to Carolina goalies. Granted, that's probably because in the past, the options were Ward, who played the night before and every game prior, or Peters/Leighton/Grahame/etc., who hadn't played in months.
over the past two seasons, there has been 11 times where muller has started a goalie in both sides of a back-to-back. the results in the second game:

3 goals on 24 shots, 4 goals on 34 shots, 5 goals on 38 shots, 3 goals on 31 shots, 1 goal on 36 shots, 4 goals on 12 shots (pulled), 3 goals on 43 shots, 2 goals on 12 shots (pulled), 4 goals on 32 shots, 2 goals on 28 shots, 0 goals on 15 shots (injured)

combined sv% of terrible (don't feel like calculating it)
 

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And the fact that I'm using Leighton and Grahame clearly shows I'm looking farther back than the past two seasons. Since it's a lazy Sunday and I've got nothing better to do, I'll go ahead and look it up.
 

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