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That honestly should've been an instant ejection. And I'm no fan of the refs but what an idiot.

Wilks was here in 2014 when we won the division with a crap record. Hopefully if we do win it and make the playoffs this year it's with a winning record at least. Playoffs at 9-8 would be an incredibly successful season considering the start, Rhule's bullsh*t, and our QB room... I think it's very possible. Lions O will be tough but I think we can win that game like we won today with ball control and pressure/takeaways. Pulling for 9-8 so we have a chance to have back to back winning seasons finally in 2023. If we lose another from here it can't happen until 2024 at the soonest.

Sammy's got some wheels

Not true. https://www.panthers.com/news/stats-you-need-to-know-bye-week-reset Lost his first 4 games after bye week, then won 4 straight from 2015-2018, before losing in 2019. So 4-5 post-bye in his Carolina career. 4-1 after starting 0-4.

I may be wrong but I thought that was just an early career thing... He got better after the bye after his first few years.

Lions will be tough but every other game on our schedule is very very winnable, with a real shot at the division if the bucs lose today.

Horn wow, shoulda been for 6

Laviska wasn't down there

don't really care to be honest

Nah, I hate Wilson, Sherman, etc. Never disliked Carrol and what he's doing with Geno is pretty impressive and fun to follow.

He's an absolute stud and should be in the conversation, but no one will care about an O lineman on a crappy team like ours.

Kupp is out for the year

48 poo and no positive rep, is this a record for most poo rep with not a single positive? Most poo posts have at least 1 other dude PIEing it

Lol what a fuging moron

I bet another team ahead of SF claims him.

They were all pretty bad but Teddy probably the best of the bunch.

Let’s worry about when/if Freddie comes back. Doesn’t seem like he’s particularly close to returning.

ehh dude if I had idiots offering me 6 or 7 figures to do a dumb publicity stunt for like a half a day's work I wouldn't say no.

We all know Brown is unstable but this situation isn’t anything remotely crazier than other stuff he’s been doing the last several years. Reporters are making it sound like they’ve got guns pointed at each other and Brown is about to go out suicide by cop which is ridiculous

They don’t even know if he’s in the house dude and it’s for a misdemeanor

Something else that can cause a goalie to struggle more with low/medium danger chances is if he doesn't see many of them and has long stretches of play where he gets cold because he's not seeing consistent action. This Canes team under Rod has been particularly susceptible to that with the way we play. Not many shots against and the ones our goalies do see tend to be more medium/high danger than low danger. Not sure if it was last game or the game before but I think we had a stretch of like 15+ minutes without allowing a single shot on Pyotr. It's tougher for a goalie to be ready for the next few shots after a stretch like that, regardless of whether they're low, med or high danger. There are many positive about our system we run but I actually think this can be a bit of a negative. It would be fine if we were converting more of our opportunities but we have too many games with 30-40+ shots and like 2-3 goals when we should have 4-5. I think some of that recently has been many guys have just been snake bitten and we're not getting puck luck, but also we have a lot of passers/playmakers on the team and not as many guys with aggressive scorer mindsets. Svech and Aho have that as we've seen and Necas is doing better playing with confidence this year but the other guys not really. Patches getting healthy should help that too, but I think to bring this team over the top we really do need 1 more elite goal scorer. They're hard as hell to find/acquire but we do have a ton of assets we could use. I wouldn't be in a rush to go all in on one this year but if we come up short again in the playoffs even with Patches we may need to think about it next offseason. Pastrnak if he hits free agency could be a great target.

yeah I haven't dug in too deep but it looks that way to me too. He's not bad against the easier low and medium danger chances, but he does about what is expected. He's way better than expected against the high danger chances, in fact he's significantly better against high danger chances than any other goalie in the league and it's not even remotely close. That's why I think he will still improve a ton as he settles in and gets more comfortable playing in North America and just settling into the league -- you'll see those improvements in the low/medium danger chances save%.

with QBs the in between is pretty much worse than "sucks ass"

I agree but the main reasons are Corbett and Icky... Boze has been great and we should lock him up as this group has great chemistry and talent but Elf was also playing well with this group. Center is usually the least important position to have a great player at on OL, you need an adequate center as a bad one can be disastrous but the difference between average C and elite C is much less significant than between average G/T and elite G/T.

Some advanced stats https://www.moneypuck.com/goalies.htm In Goals Saved Above Expected per 60 (5+ games), a very legitimate measure of how well a goalie is playing taking into account the team defense in front of him, Pyotr is #2 behind only Ilya Sorokin (a Vezina favorite for best goalie in the league). I couldn't be more excited about this kid, his play is even better than his raw numbers which are solid as is. Such a stud. Small sample size so far but I think he'll keep it up and even get better as he gets more comfortable facing NHL shooters.