GDT: carfla

[HisIceness]

Fire Waddell

Didn’t make a f***ing move to address losing Patches.

Well he did bring in Poolparty.

Too bad Poolparty is among the biggest busts ever.

 

[Cormag001]

Spaghetti thoughts:

This series has felt dead even to me. You could argue a slight edge to Florida in the way they've been able to generate high danger chances, but the key is that Bob has made some incredible saves, we've hit multiple posts every game, and Florida's got some bounces that we haven't.

I'm just frustrated and defeated. Aho was a man on a mission early on, hit a post, had a grade A shot that Bob stopped. I felt Kotkaniemi was plenty noticeable tonight -- he did a great job creating space and some opportunities. Freddie was great. I really like Mceachern's energy. The fourth line grinded well. Necas was really bad, noticably out of his league and Teravainen completely invisible. I miss Svech.

The obvious thing to say is we can't score -- but we also can't buy a goal. I give a ton of credit to Florida for making things difficult.

 

[zman77]

 

[Brock Anton]

Well he did bring in Poolparty.

Too bad Poolparty is among the biggest busts ever.

Take him over Necas at this point. At least he’ll try.

 

[A Star is Burns]

We'll see what happens. I'll never give up while we're still in it. But it's frustrating to have lost this many consecutive conference finals games going all the way back.

If we don't get the miracle there are definitely changes that will need to be made. Not in the emotional overreaction sense that will run rampant here. But they will have an opportunity to do some interesting stuff here in the off-season with cap space and assets. And that might include moving on from guys this off-season, or realizing that some of the one year left crew shouldn't be retained long term even if we hold onto them next season

But, they really are right there even with this less talented version of themselves. Just the Panthers are playing even better and Bob is just on fire longer than I ever thought he could be at this point.

 

[dogbazinho]

Take him over Necas at this point. At least he’ll try.

Agreed. A physical player brings something. A perimeter player that holds the puck too long disrupts.

 

[larueskee]

Things are looking pretty grim folks. Just got to bury something and get a lead in a game. These are the times when Svetch or maybe Patches could have made the difference.

 

[WreckingCrew]

Feels just like the Florida-Toronto series

I dunno, didn't Toronto at least score a few f***ING GOALS?

Let's be honest, Bob has to make about 5 tough saves, everything else was weak, telegraphed, or flubbed shits

 

[HisIceness]

Take him over Necas at this point. At least he’ll try.

Sorry but f*** no.

I hated acquiring him when it happened. I fear the thought of the front office extending him.

 

[zman77]

Yuppppppp Yuppppppppp!!
These Refs suck. The Players know it.

 

[MrazeksVengeance]

……………….

 

[MisterDobz]

This is the conference finals. Only 4 teams left. The canes have to be an excellent team to get this far. There are 38 million people in Canada and 96 million in the US who know that the Canes weakness is their inability to score goals. I just don‘t know why are surprised that they can’t score. I think the anomaly was the islander series where Martinook did his Gretzky imitation.

 

[zman77]

 

[To Be Determined]

That game is what jean-luc picard was talking about when he said "It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life."

(No, it wasn't literally mistake free. But it was a game you win 100 of 100 times unless the opponent gets that bob performance.)

 

[Cormag001]

His criticism of Carolina was mostly fair, but he didn't give Florida enough credit.

 

[zman77]

 

[Big Daddy Cane]

5 posts/crossbars in this series guys. The execution has been there. This is not like the other series at all. We're watching special goaltending and puck luck.

 

[Svechhammer]

Sorry but f*** no.

I hated acquiring him when it happened. I fear the thought of the front office extending him.

Yep, Poolparty is a disaster. He's AHL talent at best. If he wants to sign a 2 way contract that we stash in the American next year, by all means bring him back but he's the very kind of reclamation project we just cannot take on right now when we are gunning for a Cup.

Necas, yeah I'm warming up to moving on from him. He's showing he is not a guy you can trust when pressure ramps up. Contract year he was total shit, and now in this playoff run, absolute shit again. Good regular season player, but has a bad habit of choking on his own spit when the stakes are high and it isn't 3v3.

 

[zman77]

 

[A Star is Burns]

That game is what jean-luc picard was talking about when he said "It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life."

(No, it wasn't literally mistake free. But it was a game you win 100 of 100 times unless the opponent gets that bob performance.)

There are definitely deficiencies in the offensive game right now. And they don't really have the offensive talent level as things stand to do a lot different. But for the style they need to play with the current team, they've played it really well this series. I'd say we probably should at least have a win this series and it's not a far leap to even more with as close as it's been. But sometimes that's the cruel mistress that is sports/hockey.

 

[The Faulker 27]

I know no one wants to here this, but I have a great f***ing feeling about game 4, and the Canes coming back home with some life. I'm not always Mr positive, team can do no wrong guy either, but something about this series just screams come back for them. We'll see. Bob is playing hella good, no question but the shots that hit the posts tend to start going in and we've had enough to win every game.

 

[3CanesInTheBox]

Logging off for the night, but I remembered posting sometime I think early in the Islanders’ series that I couldn’t ask for more than this current roster making the Conference Finals.

Easier to feel that way before being on the verge of being swept lol. But this is as far as pure effort alone can get us.

We have mastered the work ethic and the system. Now we have to pray to the hockey gods we see the changes we want next year.

 

[WreckingCrew]

This is the conference finals. Only 4 teams left. The canes have to be an excellent team to get this far. There are 38 million people in Canada and 96 million in the US who know that the Canes weakness is their inability to score goals. I just don‘t know why are surprised that they can’t score. I think the anomaly was the islander series where Martinook did his Gretzky imitation.

You mean Devil's? We're surprised because it's an incomprehensible level of awful we've been offensively...were like 3 for 150+ shots in 3 games + 5OTs. If Svech & Patches being out means we can't score at all, then we have major issues.

 

[Svechhammer]

For what it's worth, some of the talking heads are starting to turn on Necas as well

 

[zman77]