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GDT: Second Round of the 2025 Playoffs

Deputy McRizzy said:
For how many shot attempts the Canes get off, they really are quite boring to watch.


And Washington is even more boring. They also should be embarrassed with the dives and embellishment they try. Pathetic.
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I had a friend growing up whose dad was a mechanic. I can't remember when exactly he told me this, but it always stuck with me.

"Some people love to build the car, some people love to drive it."

And what he was getting at was that there are people that love to put all the pieces together and watch them work in harmony... and there are people that take that wonderfully ordered, precision instrument, and create drama with it. That, basically, create a necessity for mechanics to fix what they broke while they were having fun and making drama.

The Hurricanes are antithetical to drama. If something dramatic is happening, then things aren't going to plan.

They're the team for the guys who put the engines together. They're the team for the people that like seeing everything working as it should, balanced and precise and according to plan.

They are not the team for the people behind wheel. The people that want burnouts and drifts, and redlines or any of that.

There's good argument that's the weakness of the team, from the top down. From ownership through management and coaching, nobody is willing to take that big swing that could put them over the top screw them over.... (Until this year where they totally took a big swing on Rantanen and totally got screwed for it).

Just different mindsets over what's beautiful and satisfying vs what's boring and pointless.
 
That's pretty much a nightmare play.

Dman gets hit in the throat with the puck (which, frankly, is nightmare fuel), creates lane for shooter, who puts it bar down with a perfect shot.
 
JaegerDice said:
I had a friend growing up whose dad was a mechanic. I can't remember when exactly he told me this, but it always stuck with me.

"Some people love to build the car, some people love to drive it."

And what he was getting at was that there are people that love to put all the pieces together and watch them work in harmony... and there are people that take that wonderfully ordered, precision instrument, and create drama with it. That, basically, create a necessity for mechanics to fix what they broke while they were having fun and making drama.

The Hurricanes are antithetical to drama. If something dramatic is happening, then things aren't going to plan.

They're the team for the guys who put the engines together. They're the team for the people that like seeing everything working as it should, balanced and precise and according to plan.

They are not the team for the people behind wheel. The people that want burnouts and drifts, and redlines or any of that.

There's good argument that's the weakness of the team, from the top down. From ownership through management and coaching, nobody is willing to take that big swing that could put them over the top screw them over.... (Until this year where they totally took a big swing on Rantanen and totally got screwed for it).

Just different mindsets over what's beautiful and satisfying vs what's boring and pointless.
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Carolina's style does very little to promote hockey.
 
I hate how they mute the crowd, TVR broke up a two on one late in the third and you couldn't even hear the crowd get excited for that play.
 
Joemoe said:
I hate how they mute the crowd, TVR broke up a two on one late in the third and you couldn't even hear the crowd get excited for that play.
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It's so effed up.

They have some announcers that are totally monotone and I guess the crowd noise is cut down for that, lol. There are other announcers who are just constant hyperbole without being interesting. I was watching Caps/Canes and the guy was talking as if everything the Canes did shift to shift would win or lose them the series yet they were up 1-0. "If they don't get a power play goal here bla bla bla." WTF?

You add to that the stupid ads everywhere and yuck. I'd rather listen to the broadcast folks plug products between game time than deal with the visual ads in game. Most of my watching these days is with some other audio on the background.
 
All the remaining top line centers have size and/or exceptional skating and/or are good defensively. Exception being Strome (has height but wouldn’t classify him as a big body).

Bedard lacks all three of these qualities. Tough hill to climb. Have no doubts he will be an elite offensive talent, but hard to see him going head to head with these types of centers as a center himself.
 
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BLKHKhockey said:
All the remaining top line centers have size and/or exceptional skating and/or are good defensively. Exception being Strome (has height but wouldn’t classify him as a big body).

Bedard lacks all three of these qualities. Tough hill to climb. Have no doubts he will be an elite offensive talent, but hard to see him going head to head with these types of centers as a center himself.
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Yeah that’s crossed my mind a lot watching the playoffs. Right now he’s too young/slow/weak and would get abused in the playoffs…. But he’s still only 19, so obviously crazy amounts of room for growth.

My hope is he becomes more like Kucherov, though.
 
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Only thing that sucks about TNT is that I can't record the late game. I get up really early and like to wach the second game the following morning, but with HBO Max I'm not aware of anyway to record the game.
 
BLKHKhockey said:
All the remaining top line centers have size and/or exceptional skating and/or are good defensively. Exception being Strome (has height but wouldn’t classify him as a big body).

Bedard lacks all three of these qualities. Tough hill to climb. Have no doubts he will be an elite offensive talent, but hard to see him going head to head with these types of centers as a center himself.
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He's.... 19.
 
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