GDT: vs the Wild

[baconandbread]

Svech had a really good chance during the 6 on 5 on a Rantanen rebound. I would very much like them to stay together

 

[User13452]

91 shot attempts tonight 1 goal experience canes hockey

 

[cptjeff]

Svech had a really good chance during the 6 on 5 on a Rantanen rebound. I would very much like them to stay together

He looked genuinely dangerous in the 3rd. Especially on that 2 minute O-zone shift where he and Ghost were on fire.

 

[the halleJOKEL]

feels like a lot of people forgetting the locker room was just ravaged by flu/noro right after the trade...

going to take time to get back to normal when that happens. the four nations break couldn't be coming at a better time

 

[HisIceness]

This is why I don’t think Daniels even runs the powerplay. Rod is on the board for 6 on 5.

You may well could be right but it begs the question. If that's the case what does Daniels actually do here?

I'm frustrated with him because I watched him coach in Charlotte and he had absolutely no emotion, no anything. Players would yell at him on the ice for some kind of guidance or direction and hed have nothing. He would just stand there with his mouth slightly open just watching. He might as well had been a tree. Granted he didn't have the greatest roster in Charlotte but no one was sad when the Checkers moved on from him.

Nothing about him screams coach. Head or assistant.

 

[Joe McGrath]

Svech had a really good chance during the 6 on 5 on a Rantanen rebound. I would very much like them to stay together

There’s been a lot of talk about having as many RH shots with him as possible to simulate McKinnon and Makar because that’s what he’s used to. Guess what? Theres no Mckinnon or Makar here, so f*** all that. Physically is there anyone who matches up with a Svech-KK-Rantanen line? Then you have to choose to check them or something like Hall-Aho-Jarvis.

Theres ways for this to be a terrifying lineup, they just need to figure it out.

 

[Joe McGrath]

You may well could be right but it begs the question. If that's the case what does Daniels actually do here?

I'm frustrated with him because I watched him coach in Charlotte and he had absolutely no emotion, no anything. Players would yell at him on the ice for some kind of guidance or direction and hed have nothing. He would just stand there with his mouth slightly open just watching. He might as well had been a tree. Granted he didn't have the greatest roster in Charlotte but no one was sad when the Checkers moved on from him.

I mean I really don’t know what any assistant's coaches do. Gleason runs the D and PK. Its good. Is he a great coach or is Slavin that f***ing good and that’s why the PK has been in the upper 80s the entire time he’s been here?

Kirk Muller was supposedly a special teams wizard. Canes were still shit when he came here. Now he’s still coaching it to meh results for the last decade.

 

[chaz4hockey]

Slavin burns chatty Orlov walker….unfortunately not an offensive bone in any of those 5 (burns had it two years ago but no longer). They are specialists at robotic covering the boards and sadly just shooting directly into goalies.

only ghost can be deceptive in zone but since his injury/baby he has lost his mojo (or teams have studied the tape and know his moves).

If d was more creative it would certainly help the three lines in zone (Staal’s will always be dump chase neutralize). Aho worked magic with guentzel but I don’t see it with MR yet.

Add to it the lack of size/physicality on D along with mistakes all year leading to too many odd man chances and it’s a wonder how high we are up the leader board. Necas hot start certainly gave us a buffer.

Then again tougher to play with the runs so maybe it’s just illness

 

[Finlandia WOAT]

Ok the best parts is when the Hurricanes scored, and i stood up and cheered, and there most people didn't care because they were still up 2-1, but there was a little old lady that was REALLY mad about it, she was waving at me to get out of there lol. Maybe she was Gustavsson's mom and was mad he lost the shutout?

Anyway I had a great time, shame the Canes only turned it on at the end..

 

[User13452]

Necas fitting right in with Colorado meanwhile Rantanen has the canes goal scoring allergy now

 

[Big Daddy Cane]

Mostly in-zone 5v5 offense + a dogshit PP = prototypical narrow margin playoff loss.

Better for the PP to collapse now rather than later, perhaps.

 

[The Faulker 27]

Minnesota is a house of horrors. In like 20 games there they have something like 4 wins.

Wild are 12-12-1 at home. It shouldn’t be so scary.

 

[baconandbread]

Necas fitting right in with Colorado meanwhile Rantanen has the canes goal scoring allergy now

Before tonight, Necas only had 1 goal in 6 games with Colorado with increased ice time. Rantanen 1 in 5 including tonight with decreased ice time.