Pre-Game Talk: rags

[AhosDatsyukian]

Set in stone

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[HisIceness]

Better play better next round.

 

[Tryamw]

Hope TDA doesn't have a broken hand like TT last year.

 

[ck26]

STEP 1:

STEP 2: Do all the things Rod Brind'amour says to do

STEP 3: ECF

 

[DaveG]

I'm a Morrow believer if it comes down to that.

 

[A Star is Burns]

We should be able to do fairly well at even strength play against the Rags. Need to be able to finish. It's nice that we have a pretty reliable PP this season. Still gotta make sure that it's a priority to stay out of the box against that team.

I hope we can continue to slay some of our road playoff demons too. Obviously big for this series.

 

[3CanesInTheBox]

I hope we win. But I honestly have no idea. So Canes in 7.

 

[MrazeksVengeance]

Set in stone

I HAVE COME TO COLLECT.

FOLD.

LIKE A GARDEN CHAIR.

 

[Surrounded By Ahos]

STEP 1:

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STEP 2: Do all the things Rod Brind'amour says to do

STEP 3: ECF

I f***ing believe.

 

[Nikishin Go Boom]

We need Guentzel not turning into Necas next series and game 5 first period svech.

 

[Blueline Bomber]

Biggest concern is the Rangers PP. Which I thought we’d be able to handle, but considering how poorly our PK looked against the Islanders, I’m less confident about.

Besides that, having Necas or Guenztal show up at some point in these playoffs would be a necessity as well.

 

[AhosDatsyukian]

I HAVE COME TO COLLECT.

FOLD.

LIKE A GARDEN CHAIR.

Huh? I’m on your side brotha

 

[MrazeksVengeance]

Huh? I’m on your side brotha

YER’ LACK OF FAITH.

 

[AhosDatsyukian]

YER’ LACK OF FAITH.

I always had faith

 

[MrazeksVengeance]

I always had faith

1. VITTU OVI.
2. AUTOLOSS

 

[Brock Anton]

I'm a Morrow believer if it comes down to that.

Playing with 5D would be better than Coghlan, so I agree.

 

[Francis10]

Our style of play matches up much better against the Rangers than the Isles. Going to be a battle, but still think we have enough depth to beat them.

Canes in 7.

 

[MrazeksVengeance]

I HOPE I AM CORRECT ONCE AGAIN.

CANES IN 6

WINS AT HOME. LOSS IN GAME 5.

I MUST CONVENE WITH SPIRITS FURTHER. I DO NOT KNOW YET WHETHER WE ARE MEANT TO WIN GAME 1 OR GAME 2.

…

EDIT: SETTLING ON G1

SO - WL WW L W

 

[Daeavorn]

Time to send these punks back to Cary!

 

[sabremike]

Guys, got some great news: my lacerated spleen has miraculously healed and I will be activated off LTIR as a Canes Bandwagon Fan for the next round!

 

[AhosDatsyukian]

1. VITTU OVI.
2. AUTOLOSS

IT WAS A MERE JOKE MY FRIEND. REVERSE JINX JUJU

 

[The Faulker 27]

Our style of play matches up much better against the Rangers than the Isles. Going to be a battle, but still think we have enough depth to beat them.

Canes in 7.

It would be interesting to see the analysis of our style vs the Isles and Rangers as a comparison. It's hard to gauge the Rangers in the playoffs this season considering they played the caps. I think we definitely had the more difficult matchup and closed it out in 5.

The isles are better team than their record would indicate. That top line with Horvat, Barzal, and Cizikas was dangerous, and played well against our top line.

 

[cptjeff]

The isles are better team than their record would indicate. That top line with Horvat, Barzal, and Cizikas was dangerous, and played well against our top line.

It'll be really interesting to see what they do next year. Roy made them a much better team, zero doubt, but they still don't have a lot of talent and they still need serious work on special teams, PK especially. And they need to get younger. I don't know what their prospect pool is like, but might be time to bring in a few kids and see what they can do.

 

[TheReelChuckFletcher]

I'm not all that worried about Guentzel. The thing about having a guy like him is that even if he's not scoring goals himself, his presence and the threat it creates opens up the likes of Aho/Jarvis/Svech/Turbo to produce more.

 

[Nikishin Go Boom]

The Rangers scored as many 5v5 goals as the Islanders did while allowing 7 more. We are +3 in goals scored and +19 in goals allowed.

Refs are likely to get involved. The PK will need to be a lot better this series. Islanders got a lot of bounces on the PP but we weren’t very aggressive either. Chatty isn’t pesce on the pk.

In pp/pk differential this season: rangers were 14th at home and 9th on the road (wut rangers get favorable calls on the road, shocked). Canes were 21st at home and 22nd on the road. Expect another imbalanced PP series in favor of NY.

November 2-1 L 5-2 pps in favor or NY
Jan 6-1 W 4-3 PPs in favor of the Canes
March 0-1 L 2-1 PPs in favor of NY