GDT: Preseason: Islanders @ Hurricanes @ Middle of Nowhere Halifax, 5pm
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why do we keep having to play home preseason games in cities that i have literally never heard of?
us playing in halifax is a greater honor than they deserve
us playing in halifax is a greater honor than they deserve
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Strome scores, 2-1 Isles. Chuck thinks it was a bad goal on the short side that Lack would want back.
DaleCooper
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LOL now the Canes go the other way and Skinner scores. Hilarious. Preseason hockey. Maybe Skinner is getting his scoring touch back at least. 3 goals in 55 seconds.
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DaveG
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i kinda like it. was listening to the utica comets playoff run last spring and they didn't use a color guy either.
very vin scully-ish.
Ole Gil
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didn't know that about Chuck.
Almost happened in '09, i bet. Google his broadcast Carolina v. NJ Devils playoff though. Game 7. he's losing his voice as the game winds down, with Carolina down a goal with a minute and a half to go.Carolina's season is about to end. Carolina rallies and so does Chuck.
Almost happened in '09, i bet. Google his broadcast Carolina v. NJ Devils playoff though. Game 7. he's losing his voice as the game winds down, with Carolina down a goal with a minute and a half to go.Carolina's season is about to end. Carolina rallies and so does Chuck.
HisIceness
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It truly is mind-blowing. 1 game in Charlotte in 18 years and yet numerous games as the "home" team in Halifax, Quebec City, and I'm sure other Canadian cities.
And management wonders why they struggle to garner interest in the team outside the Triangle.
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i read an article that says their reasoning for out of town homes games was not putting a financial burden on their fans for preseason games. plus, more money for the team in neutral site games.
but ya, a game in charlotte makes sense in the long run.
I was at the game tonight.
Skinner was dangerous all night. On his first goal, he intercepted a breakout pass and found Nash alone at the side of the net. Nash one-timed a pass back to Skinner for an easy tap-in.
For the second goal, Hanifin brought the puck in deep off the point and found Skinner in front of the net. My first thought in real-time was Skinner denied Hanifin a nice assist by not firing in a one-timer from a prime scoring position. He did though do some nice stick-handling in around the net, and after a save or block he gathered up the rebound and did some more stick-handling behind the net. He lost the puck momentarily before it got poked back to him and I remembered it as he kicked it up to his stick to knock it in a half-open net.
The 3-on-3 was as entertaining as you would guess. Staal, Rask and Faulk to start and ending with Hanifin & Skinner on three as we were in the middle of a line-change when the winner was scored. Hanifin took a pass on the boards and found Skinner at the top of the circle for a slapper in off the crossbar and post.
Hanifin was very impressive. He was calm with the puck and as with the winner he seemed to always move the puck at just the right moment. Not afraid to hold on to it, but never waiting too long to move it. I can't say I can remember him making any mistakes.
On the first goal, like the first Skinner goal, Hanifin skated the puck in off the blue-line and this time drew a penalty. The Canes got the extra skater on and cycled the puck around the perimeter for half a minute or so before Hanifin took a nice low hard shot that led to a Nordtrom rebound tap-in.
Ryan Murphy had a pretty solid game on a pairing with Hanifin. Fleury got burned badly by Tavares on the first goal, but after that he had a solid game. I was watching him closely, but to a casual observer, you probably wouldn't have noticed him, which is a good thing.
I thought Lack was pretty solid. He came up big on a couple of early Islander power play chances and I don't remember either of the goals being soft.
Rask played well; Versteeg apparently hit the scoresheet a couple of times but I don't remember him doing much. Perhaps because I was too busy being pissed at how uninterested E Staal looked the entire night. Apart from a lazy stick penalty in the offensive zone, he was unnoticeable except he was the traffic in front of the net on the Hainsey goal and the reaction on the ice seemed to indicate he may have tipped it in.
Great game. Thanks for loaning me the Canes tonight.
Skinner was dangerous all night. On his first goal, he intercepted a breakout pass and found Nash alone at the side of the net. Nash one-timed a pass back to Skinner for an easy tap-in.
For the second goal, Hanifin brought the puck in deep off the point and found Skinner in front of the net. My first thought in real-time was Skinner denied Hanifin a nice assist by not firing in a one-timer from a prime scoring position. He did though do some nice stick-handling in around the net, and after a save or block he gathered up the rebound and did some more stick-handling behind the net. He lost the puck momentarily before it got poked back to him and I remembered it as he kicked it up to his stick to knock it in a half-open net.
The 3-on-3 was as entertaining as you would guess. Staal, Rask and Faulk to start and ending with Hanifin & Skinner on three as we were in the middle of a line-change when the winner was scored. Hanifin took a pass on the boards and found Skinner at the top of the circle for a slapper in off the crossbar and post.
Hanifin was very impressive. He was calm with the puck and as with the winner he seemed to always move the puck at just the right moment. Not afraid to hold on to it, but never waiting too long to move it. I can't say I can remember him making any mistakes.
On the first goal, like the first Skinner goal, Hanifin skated the puck in off the blue-line and this time drew a penalty. The Canes got the extra skater on and cycled the puck around the perimeter for half a minute or so before Hanifin took a nice low hard shot that led to a Nordtrom rebound tap-in.
Ryan Murphy had a pretty solid game on a pairing with Hanifin. Fleury got burned badly by Tavares on the first goal, but after that he had a solid game. I was watching him closely, but to a casual observer, you probably wouldn't have noticed him, which is a good thing.
I thought Lack was pretty solid. He came up big on a couple of early Islander power play chances and I don't remember either of the goals being soft.
Rask played well; Versteeg apparently hit the scoresheet a couple of times but I don't remember him doing much. Perhaps because I was too busy being pissed at how uninterested E Staal looked the entire night. Apart from a lazy stick penalty in the offensive zone, he was unnoticeable except he was the traffic in front of the net on the Hainsey goal and the reaction on the ice seemed to indicate he may have tipped it in.
Great game. Thanks for loaning me the Canes tonight.
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Thanks for the insight! Hoping we get Skinner at 100% this year like we did with this game.
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As annoying as it is I can't say I really blame EStaal for not going 100% in these games. He just watched his brother mess up his knee and torpedo the season in a meaningless game last year and came off messing up his own knee in essentially a meaningless game the year before that. His place in the lineup isn't getting taken from him, he needs a strong year in games that matter to set up what will likely be his last big contract if not his last contract period.
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