GDT: Canes vs Sharks du du dudu dudu

[3CanesInTheBox]

Someone tweeted my thoughts so I don’t have to:


ETA: i missed a ton of the game so can’t comment on that part, but I’ve already posted my thoughts on KK’s treatment elsewhere.

 

[Discipline Daddy]

Someone tweeted my thoughts so I don’t have to:


ETA: i missed a ton of the game so can’t comment on that part, but I’ve already posted my thoughts on KK’s treatment elsewhere.

I'm a noted KK apologist but I definitely did not have this take last night. I thought he was moving fast and skating hard AS IF he was a competent player, but was constantly in the wrong place/wrong time. To me it looks like he often doesn't WANT the puck in scoring situations and just dishes it at the net or to a teammate rather than make a play.

I do think he can still put it all together and be a 50 point 2C guy. Hoping he does. But the longer he takes the more frustrating it becomes.




Our 2nd was ass but our 3rd was very good Canes hockey. I wonder if some of our lackluster play is just players not giving 100% in the doldrums of the middle of the year schedule. This group figures to be a playoff team for the 7th straight year (pinch me!) and I frankly think as much as Rod gets on them that they let a little off the gas at times.

 

[The Faulker 27]

KK is a bull in a china shop on roller skates out there. When it all comes together for him he can have some good shifts, but his legs/skating/agility is just not there and IMO it will never be there. His size and reach often compensate for what his feet can't do, but it's a limitation that’s hard to ignore.

Edit: To clarify, this isn't to say his legs/skating/agility aren’t sufficient for him to have a long career in the league. I just don’t see him reaching the level of a perennial top-6 two-way center, which I think some still believe he has the potential to become

 

[CanesUltimate11]

Rod… have you not noticed ghost and walker suck together defensively?…. probably KKs fault… better bench him

How do you split that up though?

 

[hblueridgegal]

KK received a little praise from the coach:

 

[Blueline Bomber]

I’ll be honest, I thought KK would have been stapled to the bench after his penalty. And probably would have been if not for the Drury injury

 

[bleedgreen]

Rod does not criticize personally through the media. He will lie directly to the camera. Thats an admirable quality but born from being a player himself. He didn’t like it as a player obviously. I personally don’t mind it on occasion.

 

[User13452]

Just from the video of Rod in the room after you can see Drury has a brace or something on his right hand

 

[Joe McGrath]

I’ll be honest, I thought KK would have been stapled to the bench after his penalty. And probably would have been if not for the Drury injury

Did you see what actually happened? They never showed it on the broadcast. Pretty much every other penalty call in the game was a joke on both sides so I just assumed his was as well

 

[tarheelhockey]

We barely beat the sharks. Win is a win but......

I only watched the first and third, but it seemed pretty tilted in the Canes’ favor. Especially late when SJ barely held the puck until they pulled the goalie. They gave the Canes the perimeter for free but were all over the crease and loose pucks.

Somehow that’s just how it goes against a team that’s outmatched but determined not to let you score. Eventually you should break through, but it’s difficult and makes for a closer game than it’s “supposed” to be.

 

[the halleJOKEL]

Did you see what actually happened? They never showed it on the broadcast. Pretty much every other penalty call in the game was a joke on both sides so I just assumed his was as well

i was in row z behind the sharks bench where it happened. it looked to me like the butt end of his stick got caught up in the sharks players' jersey, and he was trying to get it dislodged while the guy was trying to get off the ice for a line change. seemed like a weak call to me, but no replay was shown so who knows

 

[Blueline Bomber]

Did you see what actually happened? They never showed it on the broadcast. Pretty much every other penalty call in the game was a joke on both sides so I just assumed his was as well

No, we looked for it as best we could, but as you'd might imagine, TV production is a pretty fast paced environment. If it's not immediately obvious on the numerous camera angles we've got, the producer will typically say "Ok, moving on" and put the focus on the upcoming PK.

We also have to be careful about showing (and talking about) too many bad calls, because then we get a call from the league about it

 

[Stickpucker]

Add another vote for Suzuki. He's worked hard and is doing pretty well in the A.

Give him a couple games.

 

[Borsig]

No, we looked for it as best we could, but as you'd might imagine, TV production is a pretty fast paced environment. If it's not immediately obvious on the numerous camera angles we've got, the producer will typically say "Ok, moving on" and put the focus on the upcoming PK.

We also have to be careful about showing (and talking about) too many bad calls, because then we get a call from the league about it

Or they could, you know... Stop missing so many calls or making so many bad ones. I mean necas was literally sexually assaulted right in front of the ref in the first.

 

[Joe McGrath]

No, we looked for it as best we could, but as you'd might imagine, TV production is a pretty fast paced environment. If it's not immediately obvious on the numerous camera angles we've got, the producer will typically say "Ok, moving on" and put the focus on the upcoming PK.

We also have to be careful about showing (and talking about) too many bad calls, because then we get a call from the league about it

Interesting. The way you said Rod would bench him made me think he did something lazy/stupid that we couldn’t see on the broadcast.

I get harping on bad calls too much, but do they really call about just showing a single replay of a penalty call, or is it more about not giving Tripp the ammo?

 

[Blueline Bomber]

Interesting. The way you said Rod would bench him made me think he did something lazy/stupid that we couldn’t see on the broadcast.

I get harping on bad calls too much, but do they really call about just showing a single replay of a penalty call, or is it more about not giving Tripp the ammo?

A little of column A, a little of column B. We try to show all the penalties if we can locate them in time and there’s not another segment that might take precedence (a goal, injury, or sponsored segment). But sometimes they’re not immediately obvious and we have to focus on not missing anything from the upcoming PP/PK. Don’t chase something minor and miss something important.

But yeah, on more than one occasion, Tripp will come down the line and ask to see a replay of the last penalty. He’s got his own monitor up in the booth and we don’t mind showing him it on that most of the time, but if he wants to discuss it on air, it can occasionally get a bit iffy on whether or not we show it. It’s part of the reason why we’ve shown less of RBA’s immediate reactions to penalty calls. Great TV, but bad image for the league and could get Rod in trouble.