Tampa Bay @ Carolina: Nine-Nine!

[Stickpucker]

The boys can do this. They just need some more belief.

 

[HisIceness]

Well that’s the season everyone

I'd like to think there's some 2006 magic vs Montreal here but this team we're playing against is a machine of a different kind

 

[Tryamw]

We need some desperation.. we just haven't had it.

 

[zman77]

Dannnnnnnngggggg!!
Boys played very well. TB Goalie is good.

 

[dogbazinho]

I blame Doreen.

Curse of Jimmy V

 

[A Star is Burns]

Well, it stinks. But it ain't over til it's over. Tough decisions to be made and big brass ones to be shown if we're going to make it happen.

 

[SliceNDice92]

I'd like to think there's some 2006 magic vs Montreal here but this team we're playing against is a machine of a different kind

I’d like to think the same but Tampa is making Carolina look like a peewee team

 

[Identity404]

Win the next one and we're right back in it. Not losing hope yet. This feels different than Boston, where they were just plain better.

 

[Canes]

Welp, basically need to climb K2 then Everest back to back in the same series now. Prognosis: not good.

But I just hope to see some Canes offense the rest of the series win or lose.

 

[Sens1Canes2]

Getting ugly in the stands. Fans are turning on each other.

It was ugly in the one game I went to vs the Predators. It’s a little different than I remember two years ago.

 

[3CanesInTheBox]

Hoping for a miracle comeback, preparing for desolation.

Try to find a reason to smile tonight after that crappy loss, guys.

see you thursday.

 

[Roboturner913]

This series has been closer than last series.

Our forwards really aren't getting outplayed.

The difference so far has been that Ned made a bad play while Vasi hasn't, and we had a defensive breakdown which led to a goal against.

The level of play has been incredibly close overall

I agree with every single thing you said, and yet, our best game doesn't seem to be more than a minor obstacle for them.

It's like we're wailing away with our fists at a tree, the tree still doesn't have a single mark on it and all we've gotten for the effort is bloody knuckles. We need a chainsaw but we don't have one at the moment.

 

[TheOllieC]

folks,

goaltending

 

[The Faulker 27]

The Nashville series broke the Canes apparently. Weak sauce doesn't win Cups.

 

[JCLA]

The Nashville series broke the Canes apparently. Weak sauce doesn't win Cups.

What?

 

[HisIceness]

It was ugly in the one game I went to vs the Predators. It’s a little different than I remember two years ago.

I really hope our fans aren't fighting one another or other teams fans.

I'm not kidding, that shit is one of the reasons I haven't been to a Panthers game in years. Way too many drunken douchebag know-nothings ruin the fun.

 

[Canes]

folks,

goaltending

We could have prime Brodeur/Hasek/Dryden/pick your goalie and we are 1-1 at best right now in this series only scoring 2 goals through 2 games.

Our offense is pitiful. Like way way worse than Ned letting in some easy goals.

 

[Identity404]

I could be wrong, but I feel like we get better bounces in game 3 & 4 and the guys come back to Raleigh tied.

If we lose next game we are toasted.

 

[SliceNDice92]

I sure hope Dougie is gone this off-season and canes make a push for Seth Jones

 

[tarheelhockey]

Win the next one and we're right back in it. Not losing hope yet. This feels different than Boston, where they were just plain better.

The tone in the fanbase right now is not that of a team that lost consecutive 2-1 games. Hopefully the team has the mental resilience to stick with the plan and grind this thing out.

 

[SliceNDice92]

I could be wrong, but I feel like we get better bounces in game 3 & 4 and the guys come back to Raleigh tied.

If we lose next game we are toasted.

If we lose this one we are toasted. This is a much better team than the Capitals when they came back and beat them.

 

[TheOllieC]

We could have prime Brodeur/Hasek/Dryden/pick your goalie and we are 1-1 at best right now in this series only scoring 2 goals through 2 games.

Our offense is pitiful. Like way way worse than Ned letting in some easy goals.

more-so the tending of the other goals

 

[Wolfpuck]

If we bring game 1 and late game 2 effort into Tampa, we’ve got a fair shot of winning one, if not both, of the games.

 

[The Faulker 27]

I could be wrong, but I feel like we get better bounces in game 3 & 4 and the guys come back to Raleigh tied.

If we lose next game we are toasted.

I have feeling that urgency they played with at the end of the game might show it's face in game 3. Cards stacked against them. Nothing to lose. Etc, etc. That's my hope anyway.

 

[Wolfpuck]

I really need to stop posting on the Canes Facebook page, where morons reign supreme.

At least here, we’ve got some reasonable people that everyone else ignores.