GDT: CAR @ NSH EXCERCISE IN POINTLESSNESS

[LostInaLostWorld]

Gardiner-Keane.....This should be interesting as the 1st pair.

More like disaster waiting to happen.

 

[A Star is Burns]

Gardiner-Keane.....This should be interesting as the 1st pair.

It's not the first pairing we deserve, but it's the first pairing we need right now.

 

[LakeLivin]

Don't know how much it means, but glad to see that Slavin is listed as scratched rather than injured.

 

[Tryamw]

Forwards
Foegele-Aho-Teravainen
Niederreiter-Trocheck-Necas
Martinook-Lorentz-Fast
McCormick-Shore-Geekie
Defensemen
Gardiner-Keane
Skjei-Hakanpaa
Ryan-Bean
Goalies
Mrazek
Reimer
Scratches: Hamilton, Nedeljkovic, Pesce, Slavin, Staal, Svechnikov
Injuries: McGinn (upper body), Paquette (lower body)
Taxi squad: McKeown

Well that's a team that may be playing tonight.

 

[Chrispy]

They wanted to wait until after Sunday for this announcement.

But if Slavin is fine tomorrow, that's 3 days after his Saturday injury...

 

[Tryamw]

Gardiner-Keane.....This should be interesting as the 1st pair.

Runs in terror... Are you TRYING to give me a heart attack?
Oh this game doesn't matter? ok.. (Still not sure)

 

[Svechhammer]

Well that's a team that may be playing tonight.

of all the lineups we've iced this year, this is one of them

 

[A Star is Burns]

of all the lineups we've iced this year, this is one of them

Pierre Dorion might go so far as to describe us as a team.

 

[Chrispy]

of all the lineups we've iced this year, this is one of them

Somehow, this is worse than when 25% of the roster was out with Covid.

 

[A Star is Burns]

If Petr plays as well as he did against Chicago, he might really earn the starting role by having to play with this team in front of him.

 

[Svechhammer]

Still might be better than many of our dark years rosters.

Yeah... true. Aho, Turbo, Tro, and Nino playing already makes it better than most of them. The defense, even with Gardiner-Keane getting first line mins probably is better than anything we had after Pitkanen got hurt to before Slavin/Pesce stepped in.

Gardiner-Keane.....This should be interesting as the 1st pair.

Interested to see what Keane has. I have been assuming he's the heir to whoever gets taken in the Expansion Draft, figuring Seattle takes Skjei or Bean. Excited to see what he's got.

Don't know how much it means, but glad to see that Slavin is listed as a scratched rather than injured.

My thoughts exactly.

 

[Svechhammer]

 

[LakeLivin]

I dunno, the forward lineup doesn't look all that awful to me. Defense, well . . .

I think a big question is what does Nashville ice. They're in the same boat we are.

 

[The Faulker 27]

Still might be better than many of our dark years rosters.

Most of them.

 

[hblueridgegal]

of all the lineups we've iced this year, this is one of them

We are just trying to lure them in with a false sense of security.

 

[Blueline Bomber]

Well, that sucks. "Hoping" it's day-to-day means it's more than likely not

 

[MrazeksVengeance]

If Petr plays as well as he did against Chicago, he might really earn the starting role by having to play with this team in front of him.

I mean... with the defense looking like this HE'S PROBABLY GOING TO FACE A LOT OF STUFF WHENEVER SKJEI-HAAKANPÄÄ ISN'T ON THE ICE AND HE USUALLY PREFERS LOT OF STUFF.

 

[LakeLivin]

I dunno, the forward lineup doesn't look all that awful to me. Defense, well . . .

I think a big question is what does Nashville ice. They're in the same boat we are.

Head Coach John Hynes says "we'll have some changes" in regard to the lineup tonight. Hynes says they'll look to sit a couple of defensemen and forwards tonight in the final game of the regular season.

 

[AhosDatsyukian]

This may sound sarcastic but its not; I truly appreciate being a virtual bottom line energy forward much like my actual hockey career went

I switched around between C and D but was always more of a gritty defensive minded player even when playing forward so I think I'd fit right in on this line as well

 

[A Star is Burns]

Seems to me like it is just one of those injuries that you hope is fine with about a week off, but could be easily aggravated or not respond quite how you hope. I'm still cautiously optimistic. I don't think it sounds long term.

It'll be interesting to see how the schedule plays out for the playoffs. If they stagger some of the series that start a little earlier, maybe you get a day or two off you wouldn't normally get and that will limit any time he might miss.

 

[Svechhammer]

Well, that sucks. "Hoping" it's day-to-day means it's more than likely not

Maybe. Its also entirely possible that they are confident he'll be back for the first round with a week's rest, but aren't going to commit to that due to risk of aggrevation.

 

[Svechhammer]

Begin the speculation

Hamilton, Svech, Staal, Slavin, Pesce, Ned are all apparently healthy scratches tonight

 

[3CanesInTheBox]

I’m seeing Slavin and several others listed as injuries not scratches on the projected lines....?

Either way it’s encouraging to hear Rod describe it as hopefully day to day.

 

[A Star is Burns]

I'm fairly confident the vast majority of our guys (excepting a guy like McGinn that's been out long term) will be ready to go and could play tonight if it "mattered". As for the injuries and being banged up, that's every team right now in most seasons. Especially so in this one.

 

[Chrispy]

Interested to see what Keane has. I have been assuming he's the heir to whoever gets taken in the Expansion Draft, figuring Seattle takes Skjei or Bean. Excited to see what he's got.

So you're keen on Keane even though he might be green.

From what I've seen, looks like the sheen's off Bean.