GDT: home game vs leafs in like 10.75 hours or so

[Tryamw]

5-1 loss

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FAIL.

 

[User13452]

Yeah, the bad late period performances have happened way too many times this season.

Not exactly meaningless games when Carolina is playing against the #2 ranked team in the Eastern Conference and Carolina is trying to get back to the 2nd spot in the conference for home ice advantage against everyone in the east except Washington.

In fact, given the bad track record Carolina has with road games in the playoffs over the past few years, I'd say it's more important than some people seem to think.

Agree 100 percent it’s night and day difference the way this team plays on the road and at home

 

[chaz4hockey]

That we’re aware of, anyway.

Post game, RBA said there a few players nicked up right now. Maybe Svetch is one of them.

 

[MisterDobz]

I'm very sorry you had to drive to the Orlando airport. Might honestly be a more frustrating thing than Charlotte's airport. At least Orlando has an excuse though.

The new terminal isn’t bad, but last I saw it was just international and Jet Blue. The old terminal is hell on earth.

I believe that is correct. New terminal is pretty much international. The old terminal couldn't handle all the traffic anymore especially from international tourists.

They really need to expand the domestic terminal. Problem is I'm sure whatever they do won't be enough. Maybe just build a second airport at Disney or something.

All true, I’ve been there sometimes when it takes an hour just to loop around back to arrivals. Terminal C is the new one, very nice, had to pick up my daughter there on Wednesday, right next to the cell phone lot and very easy in/out. All that said, it was very quiet tonight and got in and out in no time at all.

 

[HisIceness]

All true, I’ve been there sometimes when it takes an hour just to loop around back to arrivals. Terminal C is the new one, very nice, had to pick up my daughter there on Wednesday, right next to the cell phone lot and very easy in/out. All that said, it was very quiet tonight and got in and out in no time at all.

I'm sure you're aware of this but I'll share for you and/or anyone else who reads this.

Do not fill up at Sun Gas north of the airport near where a lot of the car rental places are. That place is a scam and should be shut down. For context, they not only price gouge, but they don't advertise their prices from the highway. Shit should be illegal. Owner apparently from what I've been told gets away with it because of some loophole.

 

[Nikishin al Gaib]

I'm very sorry you had to drive to the Orlando airport. Might honestly be a more frustrating thing than Charlotte's airport. At least Orlando has an excuse though.

Man I generally don't mind Orlando but I was there last week and it was a f***ing nightmare. Delta had flights to RDU, JFK, Minneapolis and Detroit all boarding at the exact same time all in adjacent gates all at the dead end of that terminal. Absolute pure chaos of gate agents all talking over each other having to clarify and argue amongst themselves about which gate what in which boarding zone and f*** all ability to move around for us because of the volume of people all there at once.

 

[AD Skinner]

The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only

 

[BadgerCane58]

2 goals 6 shots, we're not even limping into the playoffs, we're flat out quitting

They’re on a gurney.

 

[BadgerCane58]

If Svech doesn’t perform well in the playoffs, I think he will be moved this summer. Injuries or no injuries. He’s being paid to score goals.

 

[Joe McGrath]

Man I generally don't mind Orlando but I was there last week and it was a f***ing nightmare. Delta had flights to RDU, JFK, Minneapolis and Detroit all boarding at the exact same time all in adjacent gates all at the dead end of that terminal. Absolute pure chaos of gate agents all talking over each other having to clarify and argue amongst themselves about which gate what in which boarding zone and f*** all ability to move around for us because of the volume of people all there at once.

This is pretty much every day in the summer because of the daily thunderstorms between 1-3 PM. Everything gets delayed by an hour or so and chaos ensues.

 

[Joe McGrath]

I'm sure you're aware of this but I'll share for you and/or anyone else who reads this.

Do not fill up at Sun Gas north of the airport near where a lot of the car rental places are. That place is a scam and should be shut down. For context, they not only price gouge, but they don't advertise their prices from the highway. Shit should be illegal. Owner apparently from what I've been told gets away with it because of some loophole.

I used to go to the 7 eleven off of 528. It’s not the way GPD wants you to go but it’s an easy fill up and on/off right before the airport.

 

[Nikishin al Gaib]

This is pretty much every day in the summer because of the daily thunderstorms between 1-3 PM. Everything gets delayed by an hour or so and chaos ensues.

Sounds like the outer layers of hell right there

 

[Anton Dubinchuk]

This is pretty much every day in the summer because of the daily thunderstorms between 1-3 PM. Everything gets delayed by an hour or so and chaos ensues.

I spent 6 months at a client in Jacksonville 7-8 years ago. I was baffled and delighted by this phenomenon.

I’d be in the office working and it’d be a beautiful day and then suddenly the most intense rain imaginable in a thunderstorm for 30-45 minutes, then back to beautiful and sunny day. It was like Wes Anderson was directing the weather, just so stark and quirky.

 

[CanesUltimate11]

Yeah, the bad late period performances have happened way too many times this season.

Not exactly meaningless games when Carolina is playing against the #2 ranked team in the Eastern Conference and Carolina is trying to get back to the 2nd spot in the conference for home ice advantage against everyone in the east except Washington.

In fact, given the bad track record Carolina has with road games in the playoffs over the past few years, I'd say it's more important than some people seem to think.

Since they already have to beat a team without home ice to even potentially see the Leafs in the conference finals I'm not sure it's worth getting worked up over home ice at this point.

For the last two games it should be stay healthy, hope to see Nikishin get his visa and for the love of god Rod, stop running Slaving and Burns into the damn ground.

 

[User13452]

kk in for aho ghost in for Slavin possibly Nikishin in for Orlov and then if they can call up a guy or two from Chicago you could sit Jarvis and Staal. Would be cool to reward Nadeau with a couple games after the season he’s had

 

[Blueline Bomber]

kk in for aho ghost in for Slavin possibly Nikishin in for Orlov and then if they can call up a guy or two from Chicago you could sit Jarvis and Staal. Would be cool to reward Nadeau with a couple games after the season he’s had

So replace Aho and Slavin with two guys that are just coming off injuries? Isn’t the whole point of resting players before the playoffs to give them time to recover from any injuries they may have accumulated over the season? And based off that Tulsky interview, Nikishin isn’t getting in these last two games.

 

[Sigurd]

Since they already have to beat a team without home ice to even potentially see the Leafs in the conference finals I'm not sure it's worth getting worked up over home ice at this point.

For the last two games it should be stay healthy, hope to see Nikishin get his visa and for the love of god Rod, stop running Slaving and Burns into the damn ground.

With the 4 game losing streak Carolina had recently, and losing last night, it's more than just Toronto we're looking at finishing the season higher in the conference standings than us.

Tampa is currently 1 point ahead of us, and that puts us at 4th in the east. Florida is only 1 point behind us. It's also worth noting that all of these teams have played the same amount of games as us: 80. So, it's not like we have an extra game on one or more of our competition.

Considering how poorly Carolina has been playing for several games now, I wouldn't be surprised if we finished 4th or 5th in the east. So, yes. These games matter, because, again, Carolina has played badly on the road in the playoffs; the national broadcasters pointed it out this past week with the stats on the screen showing the big difference of their records at home and away.

 

[CanesUltimate11]

With the 4 game losing streak Carolina had recently, and losing last night, it's more than just Toronto we're looking at finishing the season higher in the conference standings than us.

Tampa is currently 1 point ahead of us, and that puts us at 4th in the east. Florida is only 1 point behind us. It's also worth noting that all of these teams have played the same amount of games as us: 80. So, it's not like we have an extra game on one or more of our competition.

Considering how poorly Carolina has been playing for several games now, I wouldn't be surprised if we finished 4th or 5th in the east. So, yes. These games matter, because, again, Carolina has played badly on the road in the playoffs; the national broadcasters pointed it out this past week with the stats on the screen showing the big difference of their records at home and away.

I'm not saying the don't matter at all but before you even worry about the ECF you need to beat Washington on the road. So they'll have at least partially figured out how to win on the road if they see an Atlantic Division team. If the choice is fight for home ice in round 3 or get everyone rested and healthy give me healthy and rested.

 

[DaveG]

I mean I get it, but this was not going to be our season anyway, and we basically all knew it heading in. We were in a cap crunch, lost our entire 2nd pairing from the year prior as well as our biggest goal scoring threat and another top 6 winger, and our moves to replace those were Roslovic, Walker, and Ghost... just an all-around (expected) downgrade. We pretty much all expected this team to finish around 3rd in the division, and if the division was as strong as the last few years that's where we'd be.

And that's without time catching up to Burns being a factor as well without having someone internally force the issue of getting his ass down to the 3rd pair where he should be. With any luck Nikishin might, even playing his off-side, but the 2nd pairing is still an issue even if he can fix the issue with the first pairing. This year ways always an expected step back before the next window for a reason. We actually did have something go pretty right with Blake stepping into Turbo's spot pretty well all things considered.

If this off-season goes right we'll be in a much better place to make a run next season as long as we don't completely strike out on a goalie.

 

[User13452]

So replace Aho and Slavin with two guys that are just coming off injuries? Isn’t the whole point of resting players before the playoffs to give them time to recover from any injuries they may have accumulated over the season? And based off that Tulsky interview, Nikishin isn’t getting in these last two games.

Rod said yesterday kk and ghost are back in Wednesday likely

 

[chaz4hockey]

With the 4 game losing streak Carolina had recently, and losing last night, it's more than just Toronto we're looking at finishing the season higher in the conference standings than us.

Tampa is currently 1 point ahead of us, and that puts us at 4th in the east. Florida is only 1 point behind us. It's also worth noting that all of these teams have played the same amount of games as us: 80. So, it's not like we have an extra game on one or more of our competition.

Considering how poorly Carolina has been playing for several games now, I wouldn't be surprised if we finished 4th or 5th in the east. So, yes. These games matter, because, again, Carolina has played badly on the road in the playoffs; the national broadcasters pointed it out this past week with the stats on the screen showing the big difference of their records at home and away.

FWIW: I haven't checked this out myself but I saw on another team's forum, that someone stated that home games in a series between 2 different Divisions is based on Division standings placement. Thus, Canes as a #2 would have home games against a team that had more points than us but was #3 in the Atlantic.

ah, found it on NHl.com..now question is whether they mean NHL standings for entire League or just a Divisional placement?:

 

[CanesUltimate11]

FWIW: I haven't checked this out myself but I saw on another team's forum, that someone stated that home games in a series between 2 different Divisions is based on Division standings placement. Thus, Canes as a #2 would have home games against a team that had more points than us but was #3 in the Atlantic.

ah, found it on NHl.com..now question is whether they mean NHL standings for entire League or just a Divisional placement?:
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I think reading that last line it's the team with the higher point total gets home ice even if they were 3rd in their division playing against the 1st place team in another division.

 

[Sigurd]

I'm not saying the don't matter at all but before you even worry about the ECF you need to beat Washington on the road. So they'll have at least partially figured out how to win on the road if they see an Atlantic Division team. If the choice is fight for home ice in round 3 or get everyone rested and healthy give me healthy and rested.

Okay, fair enough. I suppose there was a misunderstanding.

FWIW: I haven't checked this out myself but I saw on another team's forum, that someone stated that home games in a series between 2 different Divisions is based on Division standings placement. Thus, Canes as a #2 would have home games against a team that had more points than us but was #3 in the Atlantic.

ah, found it on NHl.com..now question is whether they mean NHL standings for entire League or just a Divisional placement?:
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Edit: I just noticed before posting this that CanesUltimate11 has the same interpretation that I do (he made his post while I was writing mine), but I'll post this anyway.

Highly relevant information.

However, that person you mentioned seems to contradict the bullet point in the picture you posted that discusses "Conference Finals & Stanley Cup Final." That bullet point says "home-ice advantage goes to the team that had the better regular-season record regardless of the teams' final standing in their respective divisions."

I'm not sure who made that picture, but I would believe its information (which appears well informed) than I would a random person on the chat board.

 

[Sigurd]

I mean I get it, but this was not going to be our season anyway, and we basically all knew it heading in. We were in a cap crunch, lost our entire 2nd pairing from the year prior as well as our biggest goal scoring threat and another top 6 winger, and our moves to replace those were Roslovic, Walker, and Ghost... just an all-around (expected) downgrade. We pretty much all expected this team to finish around 3rd in the division, and if the division was as strong as the last few years that's where we'd be.

And that's without time catching up to Burns being a factor as well without having someone internally force the issue of getting his ass down to the 3rd pair where he should be. With any luck Nikishin might, even playing his off-side, but the 2nd pairing is still an issue even if he can fix the issue with the first pairing. This year ways always an expected step back before the next window for a reason. We actually did have something go pretty right with Blake stepping into Turbo's spot pretty well all things considered.

If this off-season goes right we'll be in a much better place to make a run next season as long as we don't completely strike out on a goalie.

Sorry for the double post (since I can't edit a quote in a previous post), but it is worth reflecting on how brutal last offseason was for our roster.

I think at some point last season, pretty much all of us accepted that our front office wouldn't extend one of Skjei or Pesce (for a couple of reasons given our FO's history and the age of the players), but I was just thinking early this morning that to lose both was literally unthinkable IMO until it happened (obviously). Personally, I still really wish we had Pesce. However, the notable turnovers wasn't exclusive to the blue line as you pointed out. I think all of us (or close to it) wish we still had Guentzel. Also, yes, Burns' regression is noticeable.

All the more reason why I hope Carolina has a really good offseason this summer with improving the roster given the huge setbacks from last summer. Reasons for optimism: Blake has been a very pleasant surprise, and Nikishin should do well; the question is how soon for him to adjust to the NHL.

 

[AD Skinner]

If I’m understanding that graphic correctly, it seems like it would be possible if one division was way stronger than the other for a wild card team to finish with more points than the 2 or 3 seed in the division they cross over to play in the playoffs, beat the 1 seed but still not have home ice in round 2 despite having a better regular season record than their opponent. Unlikely but not impossible