GDT: tblcar1

[Identity404]

Mrazek is the definition of 'sink or swim'. I did not enjoy his tenure in Detroit, too stressful. He'd go from "Hasek 2.0" to "Legace 2.0" without any warning. Canes are lucky though to be deep in goalies, but hot swapping them didn't work for Florida, so even with his mistake I would ride Ned until he actually gets lit up.

Mrazek has pretty much been exactly that here too.

 

[Big Daddy Cane]

I did not like what I saw from the 1st PP. Teravainen is not a threat to score from the left half wall. It's obvious that his go to play is to return the puck to Hamilton. It disrupts the flow of a unit built on flow.

 

[Roboturner913]

I meant tonight. Stop trying to correct.

I'm not trying to correct, I'm trying to make the point that outplaying the other team simply doesn't matter when the other team is that damn good.

 

[The Faulker 27]

I'm not trying to correct, I'm trying to make the point that outplaying the other team simply doesn't matter when the other team is that damn good.

Thanks. I hate it.

 

[hblueridgegal]

Hopefully, Nino will be back for the next one as every hope of offense is needed.

 

[Roboturner913]

Thanks. I hate it.

I'm not a fan of it either TBH

 

[MrazeksVengeance]

WE’LL GET THEM.

 

[hblueridgegal]

So much for that...poor Nino after such a good season

 

[Canes]

If you can't overcome a 2-1 loss in game #1, you're a mentally weak team.

They played great. Keep it up and it'll be a long series

They're far from out

Yeah I don’t disagree but these teams are so close this might be one we’ll look back on in agony. Not mutually exclusive things, but obviously a lot of hockey to play. We’ll need to steal one in Tampa like they just did here

 

[3CanesInTheBox]

Obviously you have to score more, but you don't get that chance when Ned lets in that goal. I think both teams were good tonight and I still expect a good series. I think we were a bit better and blew it.

Missed opportunity for sure! Just hope they can bounce back.

 

[Navin R Slavin]

So much for that...poor Nino after such a good season

f***.

 

[Blueline Bomber]

f***.

Next man up, I guess

 

[Sigurd]

Not executing enough on offensive opportunities.

Ned gave up a bad goal which was the winning goal.

Power play needed to be better.

PK IMO should have been a little better so they didn't score on the power play (on the first powerplay no less).

I hope Tampa won't be another Boston for us (i.e. being a stumbling block we can't get past post-2018). We also really needed to win tonight's home game; winning as many as we can to offset trouble on the road.

*Edit* Oh, and can we stop playing behind so much and f***ing score the first goal?

 

[Identity404]

So much for that...poor Nino after such a good season

Wish there was a dislike button here as well.

 

[A Star is Burns]

If Nino is out, put someone better than Ced in. I don't think playing his former team is enough.

 

[Roboturner913]

Nonsense. They have the better goalie and, in the playoffs, that means everything.

Look, they had almost as good a record as we did during the regular season despite not having probably the best forward on the planet, Stamkos missing half the year and Hedman hobbled half the season. They have dudes playing on their 3rd line that would be on our 1st. Tyler Johnson is on their 4th line for God sake. They are just better than us in every way possible and that's not a knock on us.

 

[chaz4hockey]

I did not like what I saw from the 1st PP. Teravainen is not a threat to score from the left half wall. It's obvious that his go to play is to return the puck to Hamilton. It disrupts the flow of a unit built on flow.

TT has to give Canes more than he has.

VT too although at least early on he played much better than he has the the last month.

 

[Sens1Canes2]

Predators gave Canes fits with mostly grind and some over-the-hill (Johansen, Duchene, Forsberg) skill. The Bolts have a ton of in-their-prime skill and significant grind...and Vasilevsky. It’s gonna be tough.

However, they can do it. Not sure they can withstand a backbreaking soft goal so late in a third period...but they can do it. This is an over-the-hump series, much like the previous two seasons vs Boston. They do this, and it will be a snowball rolling downhill (in a good way) the rest of the way.

But they’ve got to do it.

 

[Big Daddy Cane]

Geekie-time. They're going to need the type of goal (passing plays in tight that Vasilevskiy can't be expected to stop) that he was creating at the end of the regular season.

 

[A Star is Burns]

Geekie-time. They're going to need the type of goal (passing plays in tight that Vasilevskiy can't be expected to stop) that he was creating at the end of the regular season.

Pretty much what I was getting at. Ced is a good fill in for some of the grinders. Get Geekie in with Nino out.

 

[Finlandia WOAT]

Bad angle. It happens.

Yeah, Ned has been brilliant this year, if anything it's a shame he's the goat of this particular game.

I guess svechnikov was once again bad, but I'd bet a dozen Krispy Kreme donuts he's getting shoulder surgery in the off-season. He can't get the right force on his passes and it's rammifying into the rest of his game

 

[emptyNedder]

Geekie-time. They're going to need the type of goal (passing plays in tight that Vasilevskiy can't be expected to stop) that he was creating at the end of the regular season.

Just coming to say this--Paquette didn't really provide much tonight. Geekie and Lorentz had some good moments late in the season. If they can provide one goal the next few games it could make all the difference.

 

[Finlandia WOAT]

Geekie-time. They're going to need the type of goal (passing plays in tight that Vasilevskiy can't be expected to stop) that he was creating at the end of the regular season.

That penalty was the funniest penalty I've seen in a long time, we all burst out laughing at that

 

[Drivebytrucker]

Yeah I don’t disagree but these teams are so close this might be one we’ll look back on in agony. Not mutually exclusive things, but obviously a lot of hockey to play. We’ll need to steal one in Tampa like they just did here

ROUND 1 2006

We lost to Montral 6 to 1 at home and then followed it up losing a deflating 6 to 5 game in double OT.

We were down and out and throwing in a rookie goalie to start his 1st playoff game against 20,000 Canadiens fans.

Good teams overcome adversity

 

[Roboturner913]

Pretty much what I was getting at. Ced is a good fill in for some of the grinders. Get Geekie in with Nino out.

I'd put Lorentz in Nino's usual spot, he can play the heavy role that McGinn is not physcially capable of doing. Make Martinook-Paquette-McGinn your 4th line.