Kooch has shown he’s a tandem goalie not a true number 1 hopefully Freddie can stay healthy when he’s back
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Aho is usually smarter than that, I thought for sure he would just whack it down the ice for a reset, instead he pinned it along the boards and waited for help that never arrived
Kooch is proving the starting goalie lights are too bright for him at this point in his career.
Maybe he'll get there one day, but I am not sure it'll be here.
Maybe he'll get there one day, but I am not sure it'll be here.
Well, on the bright side, we got a point after being down 2-0 and sleepwalking through most of the game. And our PP looks so much better with Ghost back. And it didn't go to a shootout, because f*** shootouts
It’s not likely we’re gonna catch Washington for first in the metro but second and home ice in the first round is crucial
We are a first round out and we all know it. Be it jersey or the caps.
I can embrace the crazy with Kooch but not the bad goals. For this reason, I’m out. 
Lol Adam Gold just said on the postgame show that he thought the goalie interference call was a good one
With takes like that any of us could work a radio show for the team
With takes like that any of us could work a radio show for the team
OT is there something going around I've been sick for a week with no end in sight which is prohibitive to drinking during Canes games
I'm still not sure why that was called back. Was there contact? Yeah. But it didn't prevent Dostal from making the save and Aho was doing his best to minimalize the contact. If we're going to call plays like that GI, it's no wonder no one on our team goes to the front of the net, because apparently that's illegal now in today's NHL.
What’s with this burst of optimism from you assuming we’ll be a playoff team?
The bottom 5 teams in our division are ass.
Bad flu and Covid here in Florida. Plus, RSV in other parts of the country (folks we know in Ohio have a household all sick with that). It’s that time of the year.
Funny, I might have agreed with you before the last Florida game. The Canes played at a physicality that is needed in the playoffs and then against the Leafs they showed a speed that was off the charts.
Meaning, it’s quite possible we finally have a team that can play multiple ways in the playoffs depending on the opponent.
Still think we are a top forward off and am worried about goaltending and defense size. But, it’s not all gloom and doom.
Dilemma is that he often plays poorly when he doesn’t get a lot of work too.
He is still young so I’m not writing him off yet but……
Kooch is young and he’s playing like a young goalie typically plays. He gave up a questionable goal on a 2-on-1 to start the 3rd (though it was a hell of a shot over the shoulder), and then stop two more 2-on-1s in the following five minutes. And while it’s fair to say “Well, he should have stopped the one he allowed,” the bigger issue is probably “Why did the team give up three odd man rushes in a 1-0 game in a span of 6-7 minutes?”
Not writing him off at all worst case he becomes a good tandem goalie but he needs another guy who’s better right now to split the time with
If they can somehow get a good 2C, they could do some damage. But not with #82 the koko-monkey.
Noro is also spiking globally with outbreaks seemingly everywhere. Fun stuff
Honestly, I don't know if I can really blame him for this loss. For all intents and purposes the Canes played a decent game, the Ducks just played really sound defensive hockey, clogged up all passing and shooting lanes, and let us just pump shots from beyond the faceoff circles, and then just played over the line physically all game daring the refs to call something in a game where they just refused to call anything. Which, I mean they executed the book that was written on us years ago, and it isn't totally surprising they did given Gudas and Trouba are now manning their blueline.
And even then, we were just completely snakebit offensively, with multiple wide open net whiffs throughout the game and a puck that just refused to stay on anyone's stick.
I mean, he takes some blame for the loss because the OT goal definitely should’ve been saved. Even coming off Chatfield’s stick like it did, it slipped right under PK’s pads.
But I don’t think we get to OT in the first place if not for some great saves from him when it was 2-0, so while he gets some blame for the loss, he gets most of the credit for the point.
But I don’t think we get to OT in the first place if not for some great saves from him when it was 2-0, so while he gets some blame for the loss, he gets most of the credit for the point.
And it's hard to blame Kochetkov for a game that was 2-2 going to OT.
As I have said about playoff series in the past, if you are requiring your goalie to give up 1 or fewer to win, the goalie isn't the problem.
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