GDT: first winning streak of the season GDT vs flames

[Roboturner913]

I miss being good enough for people to hate like those two teams hated us.

Devils too

 

[Roboturner913]

The neat thing about Fleury is he looks like he just gives zero f***s at all times. He never gets frantic. Against the Oilers I think it was, somebody came in hot on the forecheck behind the net and Fleur just kind shrugged him off, tossed him into the boards and flicked the puck back up the ice as casually as you would take a bite of a sandwich or something.

 

[Stickpucker]

The neat thing about Fleury is he looks like he just gives zero f***s at all times. He never gets frantic. Against the Oilers I think it was, somebody came in hot on the forecheck behind the net and Fleur just kind shrugged him off, tossed him into the boards and flicked the puck back up the ice as casually as you would take a bite of a sandwich or something.

I take my eats very seriously sir

 

[Stickpucker]

Fleury is really growing on me. I really liked his dragging of Tkachuk during the scrum after the Backlund penalty on TT.

#confirmed Fleury is a parasite
##begin incubation phase

 

[GoldiFox]

I think we might get to the point here where Hanifin-Faulk or Hanifin-TVR are considered the opposition's "let's get our stars out against this opportunity" line. Considering where the Canes defense has been over the past 20 years that is just bananas.

 

[Vagrant]

something that you can never really quantify is how a player will react to the elevated emotion and stakes of an NHL game. I know we talk about it constantly, but Boychuk was one of those guys from almost his first shift that I could tell wasn't cut out for the league. everything about it seemed to overwhelm. the speed, the quickness in which you had to make decisions, the physicality. he seemed like he was treading water out there. Fleury is the opposite. nothing about this overwhelms him. that bodes extremely well for his long term prospects. he'll have growing pains for sure and he has already, but he looks like the real deal as a middle pairing minutes eater if he can keep his trajectory.

 

[Roboturner913]

I take my eats very seriously sir

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

I think we might get to the point here where Hanifin-Faulk or Hanifin-TVR are considered the opposition's "let's get our stars out against this opportunity" line. Considering where the Canes defense has been over the past 20 years that is just bananas.

And to think, we traded away Dumoulin and Ryan Murphy flopped. I've said this before, but it was only 5 seasons ago after Joni got hurt where our defense consisted of Gleason-Corvo (our shutdown pair ), Harrison-Faulk, and a mish-mash of McBain, Sanguinetti, and MAB.

 

[Roboturner913]

That was mentioned back at one point on this thread, somebody said that Fleury-TVR was probably better than our first pair had been at one point during the last few years and that was the season that jumped out at me.

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

Exceedingly small sample size and not really that relevant yet, but what the hell.

Here's how the Canes rank so far this year. Green means better than last year, Red means worse than last year, black means about the same.

GF/GP: 22nd (last year 20th)
GA/GP: 4th (last year 13th)
SF/GP: 13th (last year 14th)
SA/GP: 8th - even with the EDM game (last year 5th)
PP%: 13th (last year 21st)
PK%: 13th (last year 6th)
PIM/GP: 1st- meaning least amount (last year 1st..lol)
SV%: 9th (last year 27th)
SH%: 24th; (last year 20th)
FOW%: 17th; (last year 4th)

 

[the halleJOKEL]

our pk is poo now

 

[MinJaBen]

Exceedingly small sample size and not really that relevant yet, but what the hell.

Here's how the Canes rank so far this year. Green means better than last year, Red means worse than last year, black means about the same.

GF/GP: 22nd (last year 20th)
GA/GP: 4th (last year 13th)
SF/GP: 13th (last year 14th)
SA/GP: 8th - even with the EDM game (last year 5th)
PP%: 13th (last year 21st)
PK%: 13th (last year 6th)
PIM/GP: 1st- meaning least amount (last year 1st..lol)
SV%: 9th (last year 27th)
SH%: 24th; (last year 20th)
FOW%: 17th; (last year 4th)

Are the numbers for last year "at the same point during the year" numbers, or end of season ranking numbers? They look like end of season ranking, but I'm too lazy to look up and will let you tell me.

 

[CandyCanes]

It's still a pretty good PK. But when Hainsey left last year the numbers started to drop. Think he was a big contributor to the success of the PK last season.

 

[Anton Dubinchuk]

So so far with that small sample size:

The offense is still below average
The defense is still way above average

The goaltending is now good enough to capitalize on the above average defense.

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

Are the numbers for last year "at the same point during the year" numbers, or end of season ranking numbers? They look like end of season ranking, but I'm too lazy to look up and will let you tell me.

Last year numbers are full season.

 

[Novacane]

I saw this in the Calgary thread. Versteeg’s helmet after Skinner’s shot:




Thank you helmets

 

[DaveG]

Exceedingly small sample size and not really that relevant yet, but what the hell.

Here's how the Canes rank so far this year. Green means better than last year, Red means worse than last year, black means about the same.

GA/GP: 4th (last year 13th)
SA/GP: 8th - even with the EDM game (last year 5th)
SV%: 9th (last year 27th)

Huh, so it's like we had some kind of idea what the f*** we were talking about when we said our defense was excellent last year and that the only reason their numbers didn't look even better is because our goaltending was dog shit. But that can't be right, we're just a bunch of dumb rednecks that don't really KNOW hockey and/or are just significantly overvaluing inferior players. I mean there's no f***ing way we could have been absolutely right all along.

 

[JCLA]

Do you know how bad you have to be at goaltending to give up the 13th least amount of goals and finish 27th in save percentage.

 

[MinJaBen]

Do you know how bad you have to be at goaltending to give up the 13th least amount of goals and finish 27th in save percentage.

I have a feeling we do know...

 

[Wolfpuck]

Do you know how bad you have to be at goaltending to give up the 13th least amount of goals and finish 27th in save percentage.

I'll take "Cam Ward playing in 61 games because Eddie Lack can't make a ****ing save bad" for 800, Alex.

 

[Cardiac Jerks]

And to think, we traded away Dumoulin and Ryan Murphy flopped. I've said this before, but it was only 5 seasons ago after Joni got hurt where our defense consisted of Gleason-Corvo (our shutdown pair ), Harrison-Faulk, and a mish-mash of McBain, Sanguinetti, and MAB.

Small sample size, but through 4 games Murphy has just one assist and is a -3. In the AHL.

Imagine if we had taken Klefbom a few picks later.

 

[Surrounded By Ahos]

I have a feeling we do know...

Don't forget that we had Michael f***ing Leighton play in four games last season. He deserves recognition for his contributions.

 

[Big Daddy Cane]

It's still a pretty good PK. But when Hainsey left last year the numbers started to drop. Think he was a big contributor to the success of the PK last season.

That's the connection I made initially, but interestingly, the numbers tell a different story.

Month	PK%	Rank
October	85.2	10
November	93.5	2
December	87.1	5
January	85.3	7
February (Pre-Hainsey Trade)	78.3	20
February (Post-Hanisey Trade)	75	19
March	82.5	14
April	66.7	27

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

The PK started to slip before Hainsey left.

You can attribute that crazy peak last season to unsustainably good goaltending while shorthanded by Ward. From November through December, he had a .933 SV% in that situation. To compare, Ward's combined SV% while shorthanded under Peters is only .873.

Source --> www.nhl.com/stats

 

[The Faulker 27]

And to think, we traded away Dumoulin and Ryan Murphy flopped. I've said this before, but it was only 5 seasons ago after Joni got hurt where our defense consisted of Gleason-Corvo (our shutdown pair ), Harrison-Faulk, and a mish-mash of McBain, Sanguinetti, and MAB.

The thought of this line-up makes me cringe now that we have what we have. It was a suppressed cringe back then, the smile to keep from crying approach. Now, I literally want to vomit thinking that we iced that "situation".

 

[Roboturner913]

Huh, so it's like we had some kind of idea what the **** we were talking about when we said our defense was excellent last year and that the only reason their numbers didn't look even better is because our goaltending was dog ****. But that can't be right, we're just a bunch of dumb rednecks that don't really KNOW hockey and/or are just significantly overvaluing inferior players. I mean there's no ****ing way we could have been absolutely right all along.