GDT: Seafood @ Seabass’s: Isles @ Canes (5pm)

Not sure what the hell the official was looking at there. Blake had both hands on his stick, it was obviously not any kind of hand pass.
I would be more understanding if he was on the other side of the ice, but the ref was right there, less than 10 feet away with a totally unobstructed view. Baffling call.
 
Another 37 penalty. I’m seen a RU blogger note that supposedly Svetch doesn’t know what the Canes expect out of him. Well, 2 penalties in the first isn’t on the top of the canes expectation list.

But….more worrisome for me is that he sure looks slow out there with no acceleration.

before knee injury he was one of the fastest in the league.
 
svechnikov gets his stick chicken winged out of his hands and they call him for holding? Whose dog did he run over?
He eats kittens
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svechnikov gets his stick chicken winged out of his hands and they call him for holding? Whose dog did he run over?
The refs have had a hate-on for him for years now. A lot of the penalites against him are legit, but then there's ones like these that make you wonder what we're een doing here.



 
Fwiw, he put up a 2.09gaa / 0.921sv% in the regular season that year, and in the playoffs 1.65 / 0.950.
Problem with PYOTR is that his highs and lows have too much range between them. Not only game to game but between high, medium and low danger shots in games.

He is now at the age where he needs to attain that consistency or he will go back to Russia never being a number one.

Btw: isles goalie today is an experienced 30 yo guy that came from Europe. Maybe canes need to find one there for next year’s depth.
 

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