Trying to help the Wolves playoff chances and probably not anticipating another injury to Rantii.
GDT: ECQF Game 2 - CAR vs BOS - Back at it in this marvelous series
- Thread starter Svechhammer
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It might be different when he starts a game, but it was noticable last night that, when Kotch first entered the game, the Canes shut shit down. Reminded me of the Ayres game. Boston wasn't getting anything easy until Kotch felt 100% into the game.
tarheelhockey
Offside Review Specialist
Absolutely. Credit to them for pivoting on a dime and adjusting to a totally unexpected scenario in the middle of a period. That's one of those little things that a lot of teams flat-out cannot do, for the same reason that most teams would have lost the Ayres game by 8.
He was losing his balance and only bring him arms up to protect himself from the puck. Oh, and to ward off the attacking owl....
tarheelhockey
Offside Review Specialist
His caliber of play is an actual concern. I feel confident that he can win any given game, because he's not a bad goalie, but he's a significant step down from Andersen/Raanta even under the best of circumstances. His combined save% with the Canes is a .887 and that's with the team giving him a ton of support.
What I'm not worried about is the environment getting to him. If anything, he seems like a real gamer who feeds off emotion. The fact that he took a jab at an NHL superstar in his first playoff game, then stared down the other netminder like he was ready to fight... with no backup goalie...
Man, very late to the thread, but what a great game to actually be present for last night. My son and I were up in 334 and it was rocking....old and young alike. Sure the game got out of hand, chippy, even dirty (personally, I think Pasta should have been suspended for his running of Raanta, but not going to happen, superstar and all). But it was a great one to watch in person.
I haven't read through this thread, but with all of that said, I've got to say, a small minority of Canes fans posting on the main board GDT were just simply arrogant assholes. The folks on this board are much better than that; but posting stupid shit like "Boston Sucks" and being antagonistic for antagonisms sake is juvenile and something I'm guessing the vast majority of us on this board don't want to be associated with. We have always been something of a classy bunch of lovable losers and then gracious winners. We've won folks over with our humor, albeit sometime bitingly sarcastic, but humor nonetheless. So quit with the personal attacks and idiocy. You're giving this fan base, one that has cultivated broad goodwill on HF Boards, an unneeded and an unwanted black eye. Simply put, we're better than that.
I haven't read through this thread, but with all of that said, I've got to say, a small minority of Canes fans posting on the main board GDT were just simply arrogant assholes. The folks on this board are much better than that; but posting stupid shit like "Boston Sucks" and being antagonistic for antagonisms sake is juvenile and something I'm guessing the vast majority of us on this board don't want to be associated with. We have always been something of a classy bunch of lovable losers and then gracious winners. We've won folks over with our humor, albeit sometime bitingly sarcastic, but humor nonetheless. So quit with the personal attacks and idiocy. You're giving this fan base, one that has cultivated broad goodwill on HF Boards, an unneeded and an unwanted black eye. Simply put, we're better than that.
tarheelhockey
Offside Review Specialist
It was one of the most fun games at PNC in a long time. The place was rollicking almost the entire game. And it should be said, the building is not getting invaded the way it used to. That was a 95% Canes crowd.
Unfortunately, this is part of the evolution of having a contending team. It's why Bruins fans have the reputation they do, as well.
Sure, @SlavinAway does go on and on, but that was uncalled for.
Boom Boom Apathy
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? Are you referring to Kochetkov?
His regular season SV%: .902 (3 game sample)
His playoff SV%: .938 (1 game sample)
His NHL SV%: .914 (4 game sample).
CandyCanes
Caniac turned Jerkiac
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Has anyone seen Tom Dundon lately? I feel like we haven’t heard a peep from him in ages. Wonder if he’s been at the playoff games?
DaveG
Noted Jerk
I'm... Not sure those numbers are right. I have Pyotr with a .902 in the regular season and his numbers last night had him in the .930 range.
DaveG
Noted Jerk
He was in the box with whoever that pickleball player was last night.
They had him on the TV screen in his box with Willy for the first game.
The Farce will be with us, always.
Luke? Sheesh. Luke, use the fork. Your table manners.
Koch is both competent and has charisma which IMO makes that team want to play harder in front of him.
Cardiac Jerks
Asinine & immoral
Michael Peterson would like you to believe that owl attacks do happen in North Carolina.
HisIceness
This is Hurricanes Hockey
He was in Golf cart with Bettman and Waddell the other night.
He's definitely a lot more "lowkey" I guess than I thought he would be when he bought the team. His twitter account is pretty dormant and he seems to let Don handle all the PR stuff. Nothing wrong with that though.
Svechhammer
THIS is hockey?
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Goading Marchand into that stupidly blatant penalty given the history between him and our franchise (just remember his antics against Williams in 2019) is the exact kind of play that will have an entire team willing to run through a wall for you.
I have said it all along and believe it more with every game he plays. He is going to make it extremely difficult if not impossible for us to not have him at least being our AHL starter and first callup next year, if not outright backup.
Navin R Slavin
Fifth line center
Yeah, I was about to go look at that, so thanks BBA.
Raanta practiced but not 100%.. so that somewhat good new.. I expect Pyotr to get the start game 3.
The Faulker 27
Registered User
That would mean he's not in protocol I would think. Good news.
Borsig
PoKechetkov
Dakota Sioux
Wild Time
Wouldn't be surprised if his mask got pushed further into his face pretty hard.
A gloved hand is much more mass then a puck.. And the give and resistance is different too. The goalie mask is meant to stop pucks It would not work as well against a basketball. (For instance)
But as to what happened? Might have tweaked the leg that cramped or something.. /shrug maybe after the season
