Tampa Bay @ Carolina: Nine-Nine!

[Blueline Bomber]

I figured now is as good a time as any to throw my hat into the GDT-making ring.

So last game was interesting. We played a good game. Honestly, probably our best 60-minute effort of the playoffs thus far. But a hot goalie, a bad PP and a weak goal against and we lose 2-1.

But that's in the past. It's done, it's over with, no use worrying about what might have been. Focus on winning tonight's game. Take it one game at a time. Because they're not just playing for the Canes fans anymore. They're playing for every bandwagoner, opposing-jersey wearer, and cap compliance fanatic out there in the hockey world.

We need contributions from everyone. Ned, Staal, Hamilton, Svech, Aho, TT, every single player needs to play the game of their career, because going down 2-0 is not where you want to be against this Lightning team.

Canes, after a VERY long drought, you've finally found your way out of the muck and have become a consistent playoff team. Now it's time to take the next step. Become the Cup contender we know you can be. Don't crush these hopes before they even begin.

Go Canes and NINE-NINE!

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[Ginger Papa]

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		Ross Colton

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Rookie goalie starting and rookie GDT maker for the Game. Sounds like a winning combination. Here’s a lineup to help get @Blueline Bomber to the Main Board GDT tomorrow morning. Nice work BB

 

[VAcaniac]

My 10 hour trek from my apartment to Raleigh starts in about 5 hours. Good luck to me getting any sleep tonight.

Lets Go Canes!

 

[Svechhammer]

Went to set up GDT only to see someone else is on your exact wavelength using same reference you were planning to use

Time to celebrate

 

[3CanesInTheBox]

Amazing job @Blueline Bomber and @Ginger Papa. so awesome!

Now, let's win!

 

[Surrounded By Ahos]

The gdt going up exactly at midnight is some seriously good juju. Especially with how unstable the servers were after the Leafs out-leafsed themselves.

 

[Le Cobra]

IMHO Ned is a great goalie bue he isnt an Elite playoff goalie. Mrazek and Reimer are, and I dont envision Ned outplaying Fleury or Price.

 

[MrazeksVengeance]

*WAKES UP*

*CHECKS NHL APP*

*TORONTO CHOKED*

DON’T LET YOUR MEMES BE DREAMS.

CAROLINA HURRICANES DEEP PLAYOFF RUN OUT OF ARSE? BRING IT.

 

[HisIceness]

Just f***ing win please

 

[The Faulker 27]

MWG

 

[LostInaLostWorld]

Need more goals than them. Thnx in advance.

 

[Anton Dubinchuk]

Hurricanes legend Freddie Claesson filled in for Cernak at practice yesterday for the Bolts.

 

[the halleJOKEL]

five to one loss

 

[TychoFan]

five to one loss

for the Bolts? gonna be tricky to score 5 though I think the Canes could do it!

 

[MrazeksVengeance]

for the Bolts? gonna be tricky to score 5 though I think the Canes could do it!

IT'S AN OLD MEME.

 

[The Faulker 27]

IMHO Ned is a great goalie bue he isnt an Elite playoff goalie. Mrazek and Reimer are, and I dont envision Ned outplaying Fleury or Price.

Elite is a strong word to use for any of our goalies. We have a collection of good to very good (at time) goalies that rotated throughout the season, and it worked quite well. We're rolling with the stand out from that rotation which is Ned. Mrazek was injured for a long time and rusty going into the playoffs. Fitting him in now could back fire big time. Same with Reimer. He got a lot more starts than Mrazek, and played good but I certainly wouldn't trust him over Ned.

Ned's had a few softies here and there, but he's made some hella-great saves to keep them in it. Our forwards have to show up eventually. You can't beat Tampa with 1 goal.

 

[MinJaBen]

This shouldn't be fun. But I'll watch anyway.

 

[the halleJOKEL]

for the Bolts? gonna be tricky to score 5 though I think the Canes could do it!

hainsey scores 6 goals

 

[CanesUltimate11]

Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York;
And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths;
Our bruised arms hung up for monuments;
Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings,
Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.
Grim-visaged war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front

 

[The Faulker 27]

hainsey scores 6 goals

Hand grenade Hainsey?!?

 

[AD Skinner]

Where are these player ratings coming from? Skjei and slavin rated the same? Pesce better than Hamilton and Slavin? Staal the same rating as kucherov?

 

[Nikishin Go Boom]

I won’t let my opinions of Brooklyn 99 affect my opinion of the game/ this thread.

go Canes!

 

[hockeynjune]

Been waiting a loonng time for these guys to play again in June. Worked out pretty well the last time. Let's do this.

 

[Svechhammer]

Elite is a strong word to use for any of our goalies. We have a collection of good to very good (at time) goalies that rotated throughout the season, and it worked quite well. We're rolling with the stand out from that rotation which is Ned. Mrazek was injured for a long time and rusty going into the playoffs. Fitting him in now could back fire big time. Same with Reimer. He got a lot more starts than Mrazek, and played good but I certainly wouldn't trust him over Ned.

Ned's had a few softies here and there, but he's made some hella-great saves to keep them in it. Our forwards have to show up eventually. You can't beat Tampa with 1 goal.

I think Ned is as close to Elite as we are going to see here for a while. He's also still basically a rookie, and has room to improve his game. He's more than capable of stealing a series and absolutely distanced himself on our own internal depth chart from Mrazek and Reimer this year. He's earned the playing time he's received in these playoffs, and we'll be better off with him over the long haul.

Last game he let in one borderline bad goal. It happens. We are going to need our offense to get more than 1 past Vasi on any game if we hope to win. Especially when we dominate play like we did.

I think the biggest issue with our team in these playoffs is that our best players just are nowhere to be found. Outside of Game 6 against Nashville (to be fair, a pretty key moment to show up), Dougie and Aho have been absent these playoffs. Svech, Turbo, and Trocheck have apparently completely ghosted on the team this postseason, and don't really appear to care to show up. Like, we are already going to have our hands full with a team like Tampa, but without any of those guys showing up, we'll be cooked before it gets going.

Tonight is a must win. We go to Tampa down 0-2, we get swept. Our biggest game of the year so far.

 

[Tryamw]

Time to win doesn't have to be pretty