GDT: carbos

[The Faulker 27]

they took 9 peanlties and scored 0 PPG.

Our PP STILL f***ING SUCKS.

Specials teams. Same reason we didn't make it out of rd 2 last year. Will continue to be the reason if they don't figure it out.

 

[3CanesInTheBox]

I never really came into this postseason knowing if we were capable of winning the Cup this year. And I don’t mean that in a Negative Nancy way, just in comparison to teams like (at the time) Avs, Bolts, Cats (ironicaly two of these are struggling currently).

But like others, I NEED to see some noticable growth against Boston this year in the postseason to affirm that we are at least getting appreciably closer to the ultimate goal.

I honesty think the verdict is still out on this as home ice appears to be such a huge factor in the quality of both teams’ play.

We’ll see.

ETA: Remember a bunch of Boston’s big players were virtual NO SHOWS too at PNC and Aho was a monster in game 2. It goes both ways.

 

[The Faulker 27]

I don't know what the f*** the deal is with the power play. When it works it's one of the best in the league. Why we don't have a consistent recipe, or why that recipe doesn't work consistently, or why the players don't execute consistently, is all what concerns me. Maybe we just don't have the talent to a level to do so yet. Maybe it's as simple as that. I don't know.

Maybe they should all travel to Tibet and spend time with some monks in the off-season and find some enlightenment.

Maybe we need to bring in Chuck Norris to deal out round houses to the face during intermission.

Just spitballing.

 

[Blueline Bomber]

I don't know what the f*** the deal is with the power play. When it works it's one of the best in the league. Why we don't have a consistent recipe, or why that recipe doesn't work consistently, or why the players don't execute consistently, is all what concerns me. Maybe we just don't have the talent to a level to do so yet. Maybe it's as simple as that. I don't know.

Maybe they should all travel to Tibet and spend time with some monks in the off-season and find some enlightenment.

Maybe we need to bring in Chuck Norris to deal out round houses to the face during intermission.

Just spitballing.

Oh, I think it's obvious why it's good sometimes and complete shit the others. It's because it's deadly until teams watch the tape and figure out what we're doing. Then they make adjustments and we don't. And then we keep trying the same thing over and over again and get frustrated when it's not working.

Honestly, it looks like the same thing might be happening on the PK lately as well. The Bruins are creating soft spots in front of the net with late passes, often leading to open nets for the (potential) goal scorer. They could have had another today if not for Pesce's stick.

 

[The Faulker 27]

Oh, I think it's obvious why it's good sometimes and complete shit the others. It's because it's deadly until teams watch the tape and figure out what we're doing. Then they make adjustments and we don't. And then we keep trying the same thing over and over again and get frustrated when it's not working.

Honestly, it looks like the same thing might be happening on the PK lately as well. The Bruins are creating soft spots in front of the net with late passes, often leading to open nets for the (potential) goal scorer. They could have had another today if not for Pesce's stick.

I've left chuck a few messages, but he hasn't returned my calls.

 

[WreckingCrew]

Even though they failed, Toronto put forth a LOT more effort trying to come back from down 5-0 than we did after the game was only tied 2-2...and that includes multiple long and 5-on-3 penalty kills... that's what really bothers me about these last 2 games

 

[MisterDobz]

So. Today I drove from Florida to Chicago. I was sure I could get the game on SiriusXM. It was on the NHL channel, but it was the Boston home feed. Geeze, you think Mike manshadow is a homer, you should hear these guys. In the first period, the canes committed at least 14 penalties (not an exaggeration), all were ignored by the obviously bias refs. In fact, the only things that weren’t penalties were the two called on the bruins. It was embarrassingly painful to hear, but at least I know why bruins listeners always think the refs are out to get them.

I couldn’t listen to it after the first period, I pulled up the canes broadcast on my phone speaker for the rest of the game, I couldn’t really hear very much but it sounds like I didn’t miss much.

 

[chaz4hockey]

it was alleged in game blog that TT is disgruntled and doesn’t like to practice.

Is that true or just game loss emotion?

 

[Sigurd]

I want to say that high sticking is the only call that allows for a double minor for an injury. I think other plays it’s two and with an injury it can be a major at the refs discretion. Which is what we saw with those two. Called a Major for the injury (I’m guessing) so they could review and downgraded to a minor.

And while I appreciate that Rod calls it like he sees it, back off with the claims the ref gifted Boston a goal. Make your statement that you challenged because you thought for sure it would come back and leave it at that.

There is working the refs and then there is what he did. Not helping himself or the team frankly.

That's what I had heard recently after the Rantaa incident. Still interesting nonetheless. For some penalties, an argument could be made for the possibility of a double minor. What do I know though; I'm just a random Canes fan.

 

[MrazeksVengeance]

CEASE THIS FU^KERY. CALM YOUR TESTICLES AND OVARIES. RAISE YOUR HEADS. AND TAKE SOME MOTHERFU^KING VENGEANCE.

 

[DougieSmash]

Well, you can't expect to sweep Bruins at all but man we threw away two games.

Not sure we advance, sadly.

 

[KingJoffrey]

When Freddy is rdy?

 

[Borsig]

When Freddy is rdy?

Not soon enough. At this rate, October. Which is just about par.

 

[Svechhammer]

Trocheck takes an unbelievably dumb DOG penalty leading to 90 seconds of 5v3 when all he had to do was literally skate an uncontested 2 feet to avoid it.

And then later in the game gets a clean shorthanded breakaway and completely misses the net.

Aho's biggest contribution of the game is a piss poor 4 min penalty cause by a lazy waving of the stick because he's caught unengaged on the play just a few seconds into a DOG penalty caused by a terrible coaches challenge that really had no hope of being overturned on the tying goal. Boston immediately takes the lead and we never come close to recovering.

This team is so goddamn mentally fragile on the road, and my worry is that they aren't learning any good lessons from these annual ass whippings we get in the playoffs. Every year they keep doing the same f***ing thing with the same f***ing mistakes. I don't care how much playoff experience these guys are getting if all they are doing is reinforcing their shitty habits, and that's all that seems to be happening right now. 4th year in a row our best players cannot be found against a good team on the road. That's just not f***ing acceptable in this league. 4th year in a row our coach looks in over his head against a top team. For the second year in a row we finish with a top 3 record in the NHL and we shit all over ourselves the first time someone pushes back in the playoffs. These weren't even 2 close hard fought games, we just checked out the second they hit back. It's incredibly worrisome that we are still doing this for the 4th straight year.

They better win this series. If they don't, Dundon and the Borg need to take a very serious hard look at the roster and coaching staff and take a very honest assessment on if it's good enough to win the Cup. Because I'm not sure there is much room to improve on the regular season, so why the hell have we been such an easy out come the playoffs.

 

[hblueridgegal]

Given the organization’s penchant for securing every penny, do you think there’s any pressure from above in the organization on results for RBA or the team…or once Freddy was hurt, they adopted a more realistic perspective about what the finish might be? Is it going to be the built-in excuse for messaging to fans if there is an early exit?

I noticed Vegas and the media essentially wrote us off once he was injured but I stubbornly believed they were wrong.

 

[Svechhammer]

Given the organization’s penchant for securing every penny, do you think there’s any pressure from above in the organization on results for RBA or the team…or once Freddy was hurt, they adopted a more realistic perspective about what the finish might be? Is it going to be the built-in excuse for messaging to fans if there is an early exit?

I noticed Vegas and the media essentially wrote us off once he was injured but I stubbornly believed they were wrong.

Goalie wasn't the reason yesterday happened. Goalie wasn't the position throwing the puck over the glass 2 feet in front of the blue line or lazily throwing a stick at someone's face drawing blood, both of which 30 seconds into an existing penalty.

We could have had Hasek or Vasi in net and yesterday would have happened, because the entire rest of the team didn't show up. If they try to use Freddie's injury as an excuse should we lose, they absolutely deserve to be publicly dragged for it.

 

[hblueridgegal]

Goalie wasn't the reason yesterday happened. Goalie wasn't the position throwing the puck over the glass 2 feet in front of the blue line or lazily throwing a stick at someone's face drawing blood, both of which 30 seconds into an existing penalty.

We could have had Hasek or Vasi in net and yesterday would have happened, because the entire rest of the team didn't show up. If they try to use Freddie's injury as an excuse should we lose, they absolutely deserve to be publicly dragged for it.

I don’t disagree with you but perhaps there’s some mental aspect to it? On Twitter, I saw them begging fans to bring it tomorrow and I am like what about the team?

 

[Chrispy]

I don’t disagree with you but perhaps there’s some mental aspect to it? On Twitter, I saw them begging fans to bring it tomorrow and I am like what about the team?

This team won with Mrazek, Reimer, Ned, and David Ayres in goal.

They won 2 games this series with Raanta and Kochetkov in goal. Blaming the Andersen injury now is nonsense.

 

[Svechhammer]

I don’t disagree with you but perhaps there’s some mental aspect to it? On Twitter, I saw them begging fans to bring it tomorrow and I am like what about the team?

Its just an excuse. If this year ends during this round, I'm not interested in any f***ing excuses anymore.

 

[AhosDatsyukian]

I think we win the next 2 games, beat the Pens in 5 then get swept by the Lightning. Hope I'm wrong about the last part.

 

[Svechhammer]

I think we win the next 2 games, beat the Pens in 5 then get swept by the Lightning. Hope I'm wrong about the last part.

I'm genuinely not confident that Tampa gets past Toronto. Toronto has the feeling of a team on the verge of putting it all together.

 

[chaz4hockey]

Outside of Avs series (and they were lucky with favorable calls in last two games), every matchup has been a dogfight. It’s really hard to predict right now who will come out of the East.

Our top lines need to produce 5x5. I don’t think our PP can be improved until we get a forward sniper that has a good one-timer (Svetch is improving but it’s meh at best).

Penalty kill has been poor and it’s now two years in a row that our PK has been solved by good teams. Solution: stay the blank out of the box. Lack of discipline in the regular season has carried over to the playoffs and that’s a killer.

Btw: we continue to be one of the youngest teams in the playoffs but differential isn’t that great (plus we have been in playoffs multiple years in a row):

Elite Prospects - Team Comparison in NHL

Compare average height, weight and age in NHL.

www.eliteprospects.com

 

[AhosDatsyukian]

I'd consider Bear tomorrow. Smith and Cole were both absolute trash in these last 2 games.

 

[Svechhammer]

Honestly? Not a bad idea

 

[Chrispy]

Honestly? Not a bad idea

If Trotz wants a management role, I think some NHL team is going to give him more autonomy than he's going to have as part of the Borg.