GDT: TB @ Car

[Joe McGrath]

This is how it goes in the NHL a lot of the time. A team that knows it's outmatched will give up nothing for free, drag the game through the mud, and somehow squeak out a win.

Or as I like to call it, Paul Maurice hockey.

 

[bluedevil58]

Is it just me or does it seem like we always lose to this team?

 

[Joe McGrath]

Is it just me or does it seem like we always lose to this team?

They do, but in fairness there are only about 3 or 4 teams they don’t always lose to.

 

[dogbazinho]

We win 5 - 2. Goals from unlikely sources including 2 from Faulk.

 

[tarheelhockey]

How about they send Rask to the moon and call up Wallmark?

Because as bad as Rask is, he's better than Wallmark?

Sending Rask to the moon is an intriguing idea, though.

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

Since Peter's took over, here's how the Canes have done vs. TBL

14/15: 2-1L, 2-1L, 4-2W; 15/16: 4-3L, 4-2L, 4-3 OTL; 16/17: 1-0W, 3-1L, 4-3 OTL

So 2W, 5L, 2 OTL

 

[Cardiac Jerks]

At least the days where we get shut out by Johan Holmqvist are gone.

 

[Anton Dubinchuk]

Prediction: we will lose this game because Tampa might be the best team in the league.

Additional prediction: when we lose this game, everyone will freak out because we have lost two in a row.

 

[Anton Dubinchuk]

At least the days where we get shut out by Johan Holmqvist are gone.

I genuinely don’t remember who this player is.

Like, I even Googled him, and saw that he played significant time for two seasons for the Lightning, and it still doesn’t ring a bell.

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

^^That's kind of like predicting the sun will come up tomorrow.

 

[tarheelhockey]

At least the days where we get shut out by Johan Holmqvist are gone.

We'll see.

 

[Surrounded By Ahos]

I genuinely don’t remember who this player is.

Like, I even Googled him, and saw that he played significant time for two seasons for the Lightning, and it still doesn’t ring a bell.

His career stat line against carolina is pretty ok. 9-6-2 record. .935 save percentage and 1.78 gaa. Only one shutout though, which is nice.

 

[tarheelhockey]

His career stay line against carolina is pretty ok. 9-6-2 record. .935 save percentage and 1.78 gaa. Only one shutout though, which is nice.

Bearing in mind that league average vs the Hurricanes of that era probably doesn’t look much different...

 

[JCLA]

His career stay line against carolina is pretty ok. 9-6-2 record. .935 save percentage and 1.78 gaa. Only one shutout though, which is nice.

I spent way too long over analyzing what a stay line was.

 

[JCLA]

Lightning due for a loss, hurricanes by 2.

I hope.

 

[tarheelhockey]

What the Canes need right now is some regression to the mean.

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

Bearing in mind that league average vs the Hurricanes of that era probably doesn’t look much different...

EDITED with the corrected numbers by SBA which makes it even worse.

Actually, you had me curious so I looked and it really did look like he had the Canes number. Over those 2 years (06-08), the Canes record without playing Holmqvist was: 81W, 61L, 14 OTL so a 92.5 point pace for 82 games. Going 2-6-0 against Holmqvist is a 41 point pace for 82 games.

Scoring wise, the Canes scored a 2.99 Goals / Game over those two years, yet he held us to a 1.78 GAA.

I'm kind of with Anton Dubinchuk, I barely remember the guy but he owned us.

 

[sheriff bart]

Meh, with as bad as Rask has been, I thought he slightly turned the corner in the second half of the Dallas game. Granted, he set the bar pretty low, but I'll take progress.

You know, if you set the bar low enough, anybody can crawl over it.

Just sayin'

 

[vorbis]

deny all loser points

 

[sheriff bart]

Canes kick a field goal as time expires. Win 3-2 after allowing a safety early on.

 

[Anton Dubinchuk]

He played the Canes 17 times, during seasons in which I would’ve watched as close to 82 games as a 14-15 year old’s schedule would allow, and it’s just a vague cloud of a memory.

 

[Surrounded By Ahos]

Bearing in mind that league average vs the Hurricanes of that era probably doesn’t look much different...

I know you're being facetious, but I'm going to dig up some stats anyway.

Only to get beat to the punch by BBA.

Also I realized I'm an idiot and read the chart wrong. He played in 9 games, with a record of 6-2-0.

But still, a career .890 guy managed to clown us almost every time he faced us. Feels bad man.

 

[tarheelhockey]

Actually, you had me curious so I looked and it really did look like he had the Canes number. Over those 2 years (06-08), the Canes record without playing Holmqvist was: 74W, 65L, 14 OTL so a 90.3 point pace for 82 games. Going 6-9-2 against Holmqvist is a 67.5 point pace for 82 games.

Scoring wise, the Canes scored a 2.99 Goals / Game over those two years, yet he held us to a 1.78 GAA.

I'm kind of with Anton Dubinchuk, I barely remember the guy but he owned us and it's safe to say is the reason the Canes did not make the playoffs those 2 years, or at least one of them.

The more I look at it, the more hilarious his stat lines are.

2006-07
Holmqvist against everyone else: .890
Holmqvist against @NHLCanes: .930

2007-08
Holmqvist against everyone else: .884
Holmqvist against @NHLCanes: .940

 

[the halleJOKEL]

why we r so bad

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

I put a poll on the main board asking people to predict how many GA the Canes will have these next 2 games. Get your vote in now as the poll will close when the puck drops.