News & Notes XLIV: Revenge of the Seth

CanesUltimate11

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True. His leaguewide value is probably around $5-$6M on a longer term deal.

However, in retrospect, we could have found a cheaper option to provide more value for the team. The term was great, but I don't think we're getting $7.5M worth of wins with Orlov's deal. For me it's consistency. At the end of last year Orlov was playing great, but we get a disparity of effort or results shift to shift.
100% agree on the consistence piece. That should be something we see more often from a player like him regardless of contracts.
 
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A Star is Burns

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Apparently it was pointed out on the Sportsnet broadcast last night that last year the Canes became only the 4th NHL franchise to ever finish 3 straight seasons with 110+ points in the standings.

Which, you'd think that would be talked about more.
In fairness, some of us frequently talk about how great of a run this team has been on to get shit on around here because we didn't win the Cup or make the right big moves or have the same coach still or whatever. There is a reason why I have maintained that I think we'll be in that territory again this season. I'm going that way until a fall off actually happens for a whole season.
 

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In fairness, some of us frequently talk about how great of a run this team has been on to get shit on around here because we didn't win the Cup or make the right big moves or have the same coach still or whatever. There is a reason why I have maintained that I think we'll be in that territory again this season. I'm going that way until a fall off actually happens for a whole season.
I mean I also think that we eventually need to bring some hardware home for more people to really notice. Falling flat on our faces in the playoffs during this run does make it a bit easier to dismiss how good this team has been. That being said, if we do win a Cup with this core, it flips the entire narrative on its head and you're suddenly talking about how Dundon created a monster from the ashes when he bought the franchise.
 

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I mean I also think that we eventually need to bring some hardware home for more people to really notice. Falling flat on our faces in the playoffs during this run does make it a bit easier to dismiss how good this team has been. That being said, if we do win a Cup with this core, it flips the entire narrative on its head and you're suddenly talking about how Dundon created a monster from the ashes when he bought the franchise.
No doubt. I think we as fans should still enjoy the hell out of this ride regardless. But we'll always get the Sharks comparisons if we don't win.
 
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Lempo

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Embracing AI might be the right move financially, but if Dallas's marketing attempt last year was any indication, fans (on the whole) are VERY much still against it.

Though it'd be funny to see Dundon try to go full AI and start generating our roster photos with it.


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The search function tells me I have done the "WHL is empty and all the bantams are here" joke three times already.

This is the fourth.
 
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LakeLivin

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I mean I also think that we eventually need to bring some hardware home for more people to really notice. Falling flat on our faces in the playoffs during this run does make it a bit easier to dismiss how good this team has been. That being said, if we do win a Cup with this core, it flips the entire narrative on its head and you're suddenly talking about how Dundon created a monster from the ashes when he bought the franchise.

Well, what's your definition of "falling flat on our faces in the playoffs"? Tampa fell flat on their face against Columbus a few years back. I could also see Leafs fans making that assessment. Maybe I'm misremembering but in addition to at least one series win each year, seems to me like after Boston, every series the Canes lost could have gone their way with just a couple different bounces.
 
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