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yeah it looks like his old agent had a deal in place with us and then he fired them. back to square one, and considering that, i'd think that does not help our chances. course Orlov and he are best buds..

still seems like we’re good there

it was a good atmosphere--just that the mixed crowd had it a little quieter than a charlotte fc match

I went. People are lauding the great atmosphere including Matt Turner, I honestly thought CLTFC atmosphere was far better--but the amount of Honduras fans there for the second match made that make sense. Fun game. First in group, onto elimination rounds!

I think the point is switching out Ghost for Deangelo with Philly paying half his salary and us possibly getting more in return is pretty decent. Ghost will get overpaid (based on what our needs are) in UFA. Neither of them are big guys who will push people around in their own end. Deangelo was good for us considering what we paid--and he will be that same value coming back. If we all want upgrades at goalie/scoring forward we have to find casualties of that and replacement level at cheaper. Staal is already taking less, Ghost and our goalie situation are next up.

the exception, not the rule. they also just had to immediately give hill a raise and will have a lot to figure out behind him

yeah see if we're paying those 3 guys 9.5 say goodbye to at the very least Pesce and to whatever forward on the open market you thought you might have wanted. I'll take an open market goalie/ trade plus Pyotr's 2m. Mrazek is barely an NHL goalie right now and succeeded in front of our defense. Nedjelkovic the same. Pyotr will be fine at a 12-7-5 clip at worst next season for 2 mil behind a stud goalie without the injury troubles these two dudes have. We have been good at moving on/not providing guys the raises that they fetch on the open market for fitting in Brindamour's system. I wouldn't quit that now. That's why my answer on this poll is neither as I stated prior. I want a bonafide #1 who can steal the show less Fred's injury history. Raanta at this point is an older, more oft injured version of Pyotr who has earned himself a raise on the open market. I hope it's not us that obliges him that.

I think his playoff numbers are unfair because he was thrust into impossible situations. The Freddie blunder game in NJ as a heaping example. And same with Boston when we had injuries. Regardless, it's the time where we have to do it. You can just go look at the salary cap. https://www.capfriendly.com/teams/hurricanes we have Aho, Pesce, Chatfield, Skjei and Tuevo to extend again (or trade) for 24-25. Drury trade RFAs in 23-24: Puljujarvi, Coghlan RFAs in 24-25: Necas, Jarvis, Suzuki, Rees UFA in 23-24: Staal, Fast, MacEachern, Stastny, Stepan, De Haan, Ghost, Lajoie, Fred, Raanta, Patches, Kase, Gardiner Obviously there are plenty of dudes here we will not re-sign and hopefully we get Staal on a huge hometown/want to stay discount. But we will have a lot of guys to replace regardless, in addition to needing to make at least one big splashy forward add, and likely signing 2 goalies. To say we want a new starter plus bringing one back is directly to take away from the splashy forward add or depth signings. I don't want to do that. It's Pyotr's time. If he sucks in a backup role, we can do something at the trade deadline. But signing him to a 2m per year extension last year meant we were always prepping him at least to be the backup starting now. You don't pay a 3rd string goalie 2m per and get to shore up the rest of the roster. The wishlist has to account for the amount of dudes we have to extend or replace, and it doesn't work with Kotchetkov on the payroll at goalie 3 + adding 2 more goalies/keeping what we have with new deals. If we wan't Hellybuyck or Korpisalo or Saaros, you HAVE to live with stepping up at 1 and stepping back ish at 2. To me, any of those 3 + Kotchetkov > freddie + raanta + kotchetkov because of the injuries/money that all of those 3 would make as they're all in line for likely getting raises on the open market and i don't want it to be us doing it knowing the injury stuff we do.

But Raanta is aging and has injury history and Kotchetkov is younger with potential and we literally already essentially gave him a backup contract deal. If you don't think Pyotr is going to get paid 2m per year to be full time backup you're essentially admitting we can't re-sign Staal or Pesce because we have to direct yet another couple mil at another backup goalie. It's time. Pyotr getting 2 years of experience AND playoff experience at this point is way more than Cam Ward had at this point--he made his debut at this age. Yes. 20 year olds are inconsistent. It's time. We have other areas we'll need to spend on.

Fred is a UFA. Pyotr is 23 now. We signed him to a 4 year deal this past season. That wasn't to chill in the AHL--as is AHL/NHL salary is the same now. He has shown enough while being young to be in a backup role considering Freddie/injuries likely won't be part of the team this next year. Considering the other areas we need to spend money, it makes more sense to have the cheap young backup/possible future star, albeit possibly inconsistent--no more so than the injury inconsistency of Raanta/Fred last few seasons. Pyotr has playoff and previous NHL experience at 23. He was 12-7-5 last season with 4 shutouts, 2.44 GAA. Pending he continues improving that's plenty fine clip for a backup. Fred carried a 2.48 last year before putting up the 1.83 in the playoffs.

If we get a Saros I'm good with Kotchetkov as backup. If we can send that money towards Pesce etc, and have a true #1--I'm good.

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/37887926/scoot-henderson

His dad tweeted out that he wants to stay, FWIW

very important point at home against a good club. Ruidiaz whew. We will get Copetti and Jozwiak back after the off week. Hoping we can catch the stride we hit with health after the terrible DC road match. our defense looked very shaky and starting two mids on the back line is not preferred, but 3 new goal scorers and fighting back each time was awesome.

Joz and Copetti both out tonight

Bobrovsky has saved 19.5 goals above expected in this playoffs. He has given up 30 and an NHL goaltender playing the same games would give up 49. He is literally giving up 1.5 goals less than expected per game. The next closest goals saved above average is Shesterkin with 8.8 (Fred with 6.8 is third which is an extremely good stat) after first two rounds: Vegas Golden Knights: 3.73 goals per game Carolina Hurricanes: 3.64 goals per game Dallas Stars: 3.62 goals per game Florida Panthers: 3.33 goals per game so yeah, no. Literally, goals expected factors in the quality of our chances, so it nullifies the argument that we're not generating high quality chances--not sure who could argue that who has watched 3 games but objectively and statistically it's wrong on multiple levels. "By a different measure, evolving-hockey.com had Bobrovsky saving another 2.38 goals above expected in his shutout win on Monday — a night where the Hurricanes outshot the Panthers 32-17 and dominated in all the possession categories, including nearly 78 percent of the expected goals share at 5-on-5, per naturalstattrick.com." The bruins had a 61 goal scorer/113 point scorer. They were quite literally the best team statistically of all time. They had 8 50 point scorers. Bobrovsky did the same to them. If you want to be frustrated, be mad. Saying the Canes aren't doing enough is just the same as saying you either don't watch or can't rightly comprehend hockey. "On Monday, Bobrovsky exceeded Andrei Vasilevskiy's performance in the 2021 playoffs when he won his second Stanley Cup (17.33 GSAx). And for the entire period of Evolving Hockey's data, which goes back to the 2007-08 season, there's only one goalie with a higher number. Last year, Shesterkin hit 23.21 GSAx in 20 games." this, assuming we don't come back, means that he has plenty of time to put together the best statistical playoffs for a goaltender since we have been tracking such stats. he already has the most saves to this point, eclipsing a record that has stood since 1960. Saying this is the canes fault is truly mind boggling. We have had our problems in the past scoring and generating high leverage chances. To attribute that to this team is just outright ignoring what's going on. If you want to quantify something that is a trend you should also be willing to adapt when that trend is openly bucked and we've been doing an amazing job of scoring in the playoffs with two very dangerous scoring forwards (3 for a decent majority of playoffs) unavailable. It's not our fault. That's what I mean.

Barkov will play per Maurice

i mean he didnt do much in McVay's offense. I'm including one drive/1 minute of decentness in the raiders game

Bob's save percentage is 98.1 right now. that's literally just like completely unprecedented even for a younger Quick during the Kings run. Sometimes, your team losing doesn't warrant criticism of them. This is one of those times. Rod's style gets scoring chances and possession from lesser talented forwards. We cannot sit here and have all these receipts about well Svech/Patches gone we'll be lucky to make it out of the first round and now we're blaming Rod and Waddell for running into a historically unprecedented goaltending run. Frustration is fair. But finishing 3rd/4th in the league without two 40 goal scorers is an outright success no matter what, and we gave up ZERO at TDL and outlasted EVERY team that did, so that criticism is objectively completely dead. You can't sit here and say 'what if Timo Meier?" he is literally not playing hockey right now. That's the what if. If we win tonight, we will have done something the franchise hasn't done in 17 years. Again. Outright success/eclipses Waddell and Rod's run as GM/Coach. Frustration is warranted as it sucks for every team except 1, maybe 2 in the end (if you're like a Seattle or us with injuries and a finals trip and loss is an outright win). But there's got to be some objectivity here. And if we lost Rod as a coach my expectations and happiness level with this franchise would go in the toilet. We fired Paul Maurice twice and he is not better than Rod. So that he is beating him we should all be able to objectively write off to bad puck luck in combo with 98.1 asinine historical performance at least somewhat. If you want to throw in the 2 60 point dudes missing that's fine but IMO we've played plenty well to win EVERY single game vs. FLA and have outplayed them both totally in the series and outplayed them in each individual game overall. Idk what more you ask for than that. Because of this---given Barkov doesn't play or misses time--he is a HUGE part of shutting stuff down for them AND scoring--for me, regardless...comeback starts tonight. LFG

Aho was straight incredible last night and likely would have literally had a hat trick against any other goalie. Literally cannot even entertain criticism of him right now. After the puck to the face in the NYI series, I want him to wear a C even if J Staal comes back. It's his time.

this is the kitchen sink game. win it and we're right back in it. crack bob and we're in it

i'm assuming yes on both counts--and i like our matchup a lot if that's the case

119 career playoff games and he effectively ended the NYI series--Mac had a nice game in NY but the experience gonna win out at least to begin with

Freddie in the starter's crease

the graphics have been next level. this is SICK