GDT: carbuf

[sabremike]

I AM GONNA END MY 24H SHIFT, FLY TO THE US, MURDER SOMEONE AND RETURN FOR A 12H ONE ON MONDAY.

ARE YOU GETTING OVERTIME?

 

[Joe McGrath]

I'd love to Adam, but my job forces me to sit through bad games

Do they have the company president’s drop out kid producing the games lately or what?

The “Hurricanes Goal” graphic when nothing was going on was an absolute chef’s kiss.

 

[Discipline Daddy]

Another frustrating game, back to back with the Nashville loss. Really in both games we played well enough to win and had the lion's share of the scoring chances and the other team had the lion's share of the goals. The effort is outstanding. The finishing and goaltending are bad.

I predicted that we would take our foot off of the gas a bit in this last stretch. Perhaps that's what is happening as the players probably don't care as much as we do regarding seeding. Or perhaps they're in a rut confidence-wise.

 

[Blueline Bomber]

Do they have the company president’s drop out kid producing the games lately or what?

The “Hurricanes Goal” graphic when nothing was going on was an absolute chef’s kiss.

Dunno what you're talking about. But I might have had my head buried in a laptop working on a package

 

[Joe McGrath]

I’ll put a positive spin on this:

Enough people are losing their minds on social media to illicit a response from Gold, etc and they are literally still control their own destiny to win their 3rd straight division title .

And people are apoplectic.

6 years ago no one outside of probably 1/2 of the people on this board gave a flying f*** about this team.

 

[3CanesInTheBox]

I’ll put a positive spin on this:

Enough people are losing their minds on social media to illicit a response from Gold, etc and they are literally still control their own destiny to win their 3rd straight division title .

And people are apoplectic.

6 years ago no one outside of probably 1/2 of the people on this board gave a flying f*** about this team.

I was about to say it sounds like Yankees fans griping in this fandom. I guess that’s what comes with sustained success. Even as a Yankees fan I am usually more “well, at least we’re in it every year”, which probably puts me in the minority there, too. :: shrug ::

 

[MrazeksVengeance]

ARE YOU GETTING OVERTIME?

That’s… a normal Saturday shift.

 

[StorminSnvechnAho]

Anyone care to talk me into believing we aren't heading to a first round exit this season (even if we hold onto the slim 1 point division lead) I just don't think we have the firepower down Patches and Scech.

 

[Svechhammer]

Yeah, we definitely get a fair shake from the NHL refs

Lol

 

[CanesUltimate11]

Anyone care to talk me into believing we aren't heading to a first round exit this season (even if we hold onto the slim 1 point division lead) I just don't think we have the firepower down Patches and Scech.

We managed the Islanders just find a few games ago. One of the few teams that isn’t likely to blow us out of the water offensively.

 

[WhiteTiger]

Not many NHL teams (probably none) could withstand losing two of their top goal scorers. I think the Canes with a healthy Patches and Svech would’ve had as good a chance as any non-Boston team of making it out of the East. Injury bug simply bit hard this year, and now the major question is whether they win one series or none.

That said, the power play has been bad for years, and I wanted to see it overhauled after last season. Hopefully it finally gets a shakeup this off-season.

 

[Muuri]

Kotka reaches 40 points despite having scored like 1+2 in the first 20 games.

 

[Finlandia WOAT]

Yeah, we definitely get a fair shake from the NHL refs

Lol

tbf the ref is right lol, tie goes to the defending team and that wasn't even a tie

 

[MrazeksVengeance]

A 24H SHIFT SOUNDS ILLEGAL

Wait till you hear about 32 hour one.

 

[AD Skinner]

Don’t all refs talk to all players that way?

 

[Svechhammer]

The KK nickname debate is now over....

 

[Lempo]

coke miami it is.

 

[Borsig]

Yeah, we definitely get a fair shake from the NHL refs

Lol

I'll keep saying it. Accidental puck to the face at the right time a few times would send a message. Can't get much worse

 

[Tryamw]

Prediction: You've put more effort into this GDT than the team will put into this game.

Well this result was predicted

 

[Negan4Coach]

I was about to say it sounds like Yankees fans griping in this fandom. I guess that’s what comes with sustained success. Even as a Yankees fan I am usually more “well, at least we’re in it every year”, which probably puts me in the minority there, too. :: shrug ::

I'm a Yankees fan and I think they are as much of a disgrace as this team. Loading up a roster with guys who either hit a home run or strike out is great in the regular season when you are batting against team's 4,5 and 6 pitchers but in the playoffs when you are facing 1, 2, 3 and then 1 and 2 again it doesn't work out so great, now does it?

Kinda like loading up a roster with grinders and a fanatical coach who just work real hard and usually get a victory in the doldrums of January and February doesn't really work in the playoffs.

 

[chaz4hockey]

I'm a Yankees fan and I think they are as much of a disgrace as this team. Loading up a roster with guys who either hit a home run or strike out is great in the regular season when you are batting against team's 4,5 and 6 pitchers but in the playoffs when you are facing 1, 2, 3 and then 1 and 2 again it doesn't work out so great, now does it?

Kinda like loading up a roster with grinders and a fanatical coach who just work real hard and usually get a victory in the doldrums of January and February doesn't really work in the playoffs.

Yankees versus Canes history comparisons are of course not comparable.

Issue for Yankee fans is that despite their team having incredible financial advantages (imagine Leafs without a salary cap and limited profit sharing versus most of the League) versus the rest of the baseball, Cashman their GM has not delivered a World Series win in 14 years (and only one in 22 years). For many Yankee fans, that is incompetence personified.

Spend aside, the argument is that they could be spending more (and get cheap at trade deadlines buying/trading second rate versus top tier players….sound familiar) resonates with Yankees fans since their spend as a percent of revenues is very very very low.

In any event, Baseball is a dying sport and doesn’t move the needle for many younger folks.

 

[AD Skinner]

I don’t follow baseball at all. But seeing the hurricanes, as in the relocated forever .500 whalers who teetered on the edge of getting relocated again because they spent so little on their roster that no one cared to watch them for almost a decade, being compared to the New York freaking Yankees in terms of expectations is truly something

 

[chaz4hockey]

I don’t follow baseball at all. But seeing the hurricanes, as in the relocated forever .500 whalers who teetered on the edge of getting relocated again because they spent so little on their roster that no one cared to watch them for almost a decade, being compared to the New York freaking Yankees in terms of expectations is truly something

As I noted above, there is no comparison between franchises.

However, what others brought to the table re: fans expectations does resonate especially if your focus is on the immediate present versus looking back at history (which I suspect most younger folks who are Canes fans do and ultimately they care less about the Whaler history)

 

[hblueridgegal]

And, there's this concern across almost all sports which makes retention of the fans that you do have a priority:

The Sports Industry’s Gen Z Problem: The next generation of consumers isn’t following in the footsteps of sports-hungry millennials​

• Gen Zers are half as likely as millennials to watch live sports regularly and twice as likely to never watch.
• Esports are more popular among Gen Z than MLB, NASCAR and the NHL, with 35% identifying as fans.

 

[Joe McGrath]

Don’t all refs talk to all players that way?

Yes