News & Notes XLV: Simply Having A Wonderful Canesmastime
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AhosDatsyukian
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Koochie last 5 games:
5-0, 6 goals allowed (no more than 2 in a game), .947 sv%
5-0, 6 goals allowed (no more than 2 in a game), .947 sv%
LakeLivin
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Impressive, but just a touch of perspective: those games have been against Philly, TB, Boston, Calgary, and Buffalo, three of which are 3-6-1 over their last 10 games.
Again, still impressive!
AhosDatsyukian
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I could give koochie a kiss
Derailed75
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A little more perspective. TB Philly and Buffalo have respectable goal for.
tarheelhockey
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WreckingCrew
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But aren't those the games we usually play our worst in and struggle (often an ugly win at best)?
Random thoughts:
I feel like I've seen a few people say this season feels like the 22-23 season to them. I agree in some sense: I think we have a very reasonable path to the ECFs. (Not a guarantee, just a good likelihood of being able to make it there). And beyond that, I wonder if I will be thinking the same thing I thought after that FL sweep: The players gave it all they had and management just didn't assemble a good enough team. I see two differences:
1) Future should be bright--I hate how the Rantanen saga went down and I still wonder what this team would like if he hadn't pulled a James Harden on us-- but the return for him, and our prospects are great.
2) Our players have a couple of more years under their belt. Maybe if Aho, Jarvy, Svech, Koko, Kooch etc., and a couple of the new guys really step up we could try to pull off a miracle run.
Just using this board as my sports diary, don't mind me.
I feel like I've seen a few people say this season feels like the 22-23 season to them. I agree in some sense: I think we have a very reasonable path to the ECFs. (Not a guarantee, just a good likelihood of being able to make it there). And beyond that, I wonder if I will be thinking the same thing I thought after that FL sweep: The players gave it all they had and management just didn't assemble a good enough team. I see two differences:
1) Future should be bright--I hate how the Rantanen saga went down and I still wonder what this team would like if he hadn't pulled a James Harden on us-- but the return for him, and our prospects are great.
2) Our players have a couple of more years under their belt. Maybe if Aho, Jarvy, Svech, Koko, Kooch etc., and a couple of the new guys really step up we could try to pull off a miracle run.
Just using this board as my sports diary, don't mind me.
CandyCanes
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Moving forward please start any journal entry on these boards with "Dear Diary,".
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WreckingCrew
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Every year is the same pretty much, as soon as we face a team that's physically imposing we struggle immensely. We're a great regular season team that simply doesn't have the build for long playoffs IMO. We can dominate other skill teams (NJD), and sometimes physical teams because THEY don't have another dimension (i.e. NYI trap and physical style). But if a team can counter us by stopping our skill guys by being physical to back them off, protecting the net, keeping us to the outside, we hit a brick wall because we don't have that extra dimension to change up our game plan. What works all year in the regular season against different teams every night doesn't work the same in the playoffs because the same teams are playing enough they can change up their normal game-plan to counter it. That's probably RBAs biggest drawback at not being an Xs & Os guy, we just stick to our game in playoffs even when it's failing us...and part of that is personnel too (we have NO physical punch on the roster)
Great points.
I believe our forwards this year (particularly if Carrier makes it back) are much more suited to playoff style.
Beyond the janky-Robinson-Carrier adds we still have Staal, Martinook & KK and I believe that Blake (can maneuver in very tight spaces) and Stanky (not afraid of being up front) could be productive despite their size issues.
Our biggest weakness will be our D with both bottom pairs arguably too small to offset the big rosters. This is where the add and emergence of Nikishin could help enormously (and why despite Morrow’s perceived defensive warts his size in the zone is beneficial).
Nikishin al Gaib
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Honestly, this is part of why I love bringing in Jankowski. He's a big body that isn't afraid to use it, and Stankoven has repeatedly shown an ability to stir some shit up around the crease and help put opponents on edge. These are the kind of players and the kind of play I want us to have. A team that isn't afraid to play over the line a bit knowing the refs aren't going to call everything, especially if you're playing over the edge with the body and not the stick.
Will Carrier returning so all our faves aren’t stuck on the Staal line:
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When fully healthy, who sits after Carrier and Svechnikov get added back into lineup?
Roslovic? Robinson? Jankowski?
Can’t see them taking Stankoven or Hall out.
Roslovic? Robinson? Jankowski?
Can’t see them taking Stankoven or Hall out.
Well, they certainly don't need to play LTIR games after the way the deadline went.
AhosDatsyukian
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Jank has had a hot start but I think he's an obvious choice here. Along with Jost. Jank can rotate in with Roslovic or if there are other guys out/we decide to rest. Robinson has been too good to take out of the lineup.
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As alluded to above, there will be some interesting competition in the bottom six coming up in the next couple of weeks if they get healthy. It will be interesting to see how they handle that. At least it does allow for a bit of depth if guys get banged up.
spockBokk
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Ah, completely forgot about Jost. There’s a spot for one of them off the bat.
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Jank’s hot start aside, he’s my guy who stays in pretty easily. Dude that big with the faceoff numbers he has isn’t going anywhere. Jost is a very clear 13 guy.
Jost is the 14F when we’re fully healthy.
The good(?) news is that if we actually have to decide who to sit in April/May for that 13F slot, that’s a really nice problem to have.
The good(?) news is that if we actually have to decide who to sit in April/May for that 13F slot, that’s a really nice problem to have.
